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It's NEVER a WOMAN'S fault, right?


In my recollection, talk shows and reality based shows that have a female lead have always lent themselves to bias against men beyond belief. Divorce Court is another such show.

Certainly, I am compelled to watch Divorce Court so that I can marvel at how base and degenerated the whole world, across the board, has become. I’m particularly intrigued at how cosmopolitan the ignorance is. All ethnicities have the same problems and that’s what keeps me watching.

The episode that inspired this thread involved a twenty-four year old man, his wife and his lover. The mistress had a child by the man before he married his wife and she was very aware of that. When the couple had problems and would separate, however, he would go see the other girl and, ultimately, impregnate her.

The women had both been pregnant at the same time during one of their pregnancies from him. In total he had two children by his wife and three by the ex-girlfriend/mistress.

What I can’t stand on this show, and other female lead shows, is that men are degraded for various behaviors that women openly “fall” for. Judge Ephriam addressed the women about how low their self-esteem was in regards to the man in the beginning. The rest of the show, however, was the dog-the-man show.

What I want to scream from the mountaintop to ALL this show, all shows and the world is this: WOMEN…if you DON’T want to get pregnant, than JUST - SAY - NO!

How do the women participating on these shows get pregnant by the men involved? They CHOSE to have sex, right? They CHOSE to run the risk of pregnancy by using or NOT forcing the male to wear protection, RIGHT!? More importantly, TO ME, is that the women don’t PROTECT THEMSELVES ANYWAY, RIGHT!? And, most importantly, they CHOSE to have sex because they WANTED IT, TOO, DAMNIT!

There are absolutely NO excuses for this. We’ve gone from having short discussions about sex in “Health Class” back in my time to openly talking about sex, “alternate lifestyles” and giving away “protection” to go experiment with sexuality in the laboratory of life.

In our time, whether we want to be or not, we are ALL exposed to the truth about gender practices, ploys, scams, cons, etc. Even though there isn’t an adult woman alive that doesn’t “know better” than to deal with certain men, they do anyway. But the men are the one’s ridiculed for a woman’s willingness to be involved with the man…like a moth to a flame.

I’m not condoning the domestic violence issues that present themselves. I’m just tired of men being the only ones blamed for pregnancy. The AIDS epidemic is over twenty years old. Condoms, “the pill”, and other contraception is available for FREE at school, clinics and even church. “The Sponge” is back and female condoms are the BOMB, they go unused. How, and WHY, is it JUST a man’s responsibility to PROTECT THEM B O T H!!!???

So, WOMEN, quit blaming men for YOU getting YOURSELF pregnant. DON’T have sex! If you do, protect YOURSELF in spite of the condom.

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i agree highly. even in the worse cicumstances, she always spins it to somehow make it look like it's alll the guy's fault.

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These shows are fake

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Well, if you've looked at most of these episodes, the men were the ones being total idiots. They choose to get married, but yet they step out and cheat on their wives just for kicks. Now who in the hell condones that?

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In our time, whether we want to be or not, we are ALL exposed to the truth about gender practices, ploys, scams, cons, etc. Even though there isn't an adult woman alive that doesn't "know better" than to deal with certain men, they do anyway. But the men are the one's ridiculed for a woman's willingness to be involved with the man...like a moth to a flame.

I'm not condoning the domestic violence issues that present themselves. I'm just tired of men being the only ones blamed for pregnancy. The AIDS epidemic is over twenty years old. Condoms, "the pill", and other contraception is available for FREE at school, clinics and even church. "The Sponge" is back and female condoms are the BOMB, they go unused. How, and WHY, is it JUST a man's responsibility to PROTECT THEM B O T H!!!???

So, WOMEN, quit blaming men for YOU getting YOURSELF pregnant. DON'T have sex! If you do, protect YOURSELF in spite of the condom.


This should be on billboards and TV ads across America. Every man alive should hear this instead of the usual "men should learn to keep their pants on" from feminists.

---The tolerance of storyline inconsistency is why we have so many bad movies today.

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Wow, using the so called "bias" of this show to spin around and laucnh an attack against women, in a hypcoritical fashion.

I've seen Mablean chew the women out. You're obviously delusion.

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I agree, Mabelean gets on the women just as much as she gets on the mens' case. You should see that shows with the spoiled, materialistic wives. Mabelean just has a thing against cheating men and some of those men aren't that bright. She isn't too fond of meddling girlfriends/mistresses either.

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Amen to the last poster.

Case in point: On yesterdays Divorce Court Judge Mabelean chewed out one lady named T'Keysia, or whatever it was, who was divorcing her husband because he never folowed through on his promise. She married him because she saw him hanging with the jocks at the college and figured he was one too thinking he was gonna go straight to the NFL and give her a house, car, money etc.

When that didn't happen, oh now T'Keysia didn't love him, she criticized her husbands weight claiming she didn't want to touch him or he touch her sexual and he sweat too much (Posters note: funny when T'Keysia was thing champagne wishes and caviar dreams, his weight wasn't a problem. Especially when she was just as fat).

The husband said T'Keysia was a golddiger, and he was right. She painter a perfect picture of herself as a golddigger. T'Keysia didn't want to wait for her husband to be a nurse or a doctor or whatever, she wanted what SHE wanted now and not when he felt like it and Judge Mabelean called her on it.

At the end Judge Mabelean told T'Keysia her case for spousal support was denied, but ordered that my man to continue to pay child support for their child which was a good call. But I just loved how T'Keysia told my man at the end of the credits "You ain't gonna be nothing without me."

I hope they do a "Where Are they Now" show, because I really would like to hear what happened to this couple.

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clealtr you havrent been watching the same Divorce Court as i have because she gets on both people no matter who was at fault! 90% of the time both people are morons anyway, i've rarely seen a case where it was even 60/40 let alone 100% 1 person's fault. So yeah...maybe you should open your eyes and your ears b4 you make another comment like that

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To the OP: I can ALMOST see what you're saying. I've seen a couple of these episodes and in most of them, she was yelling at the man for doing something stupid. 100% he deserved it though. The most prominent episode in my mind is where some girl wanted to divorce her husband because he wouldn't follow her "rules". That entire case consisted of the judge almost yelling at the woman because she had such stupidly bizzare rules that no human being should have to abide by.

Although, I have seen some cases where the girls gets impregnanted by some idiot and the judge still yells at the guy. The girl should use her common sense and see that the dude is a complete loser before having sex with him, let alone marry him. That is when I think the women should get yelled at instead of the man, because even though the dude could be a complete jerk-off, the woman was stupid enough to fall in "love" with him anyway. Some of the women just need to open their eyes sooner. Most of the men just need to grow up sooner.

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