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The title of this article is offensive to the dignity of women. It's unnecessary. Real Catholic men seek to protect the dignity of ALL women if only for being creatures of God, even those women who don't act like women and work to destroy their own dignity and the dignity of others.
Your article and comments fail to point something out that is very obvious to most people:
There are more women in their 30s and 40s unmarried because there are also less men who act like real men. If a man does not seek to protect the dignity of a woman, what choices for marriage does she have?
When I was in my 20s, I was not a feminist. If I had been, it would have been much easier to have married a "Catholic" man, but I had not met a single virtuous man. The kind that I met were always compromising on their faith. Those that portended to be truly "Christian" were actually impatient, lacking virtue, and desired a "girlfriend" immediately after a courtship of a dinner or two. "Girlfriend" meant that they had liberties of immodest acts (including passionate kissing). If you were old-fashioned, these 'men' who you thought were your friends ended up quickly despising you for your virtue, and would then gossip about you. This I found quite unattractive. Conversely, I was often told off for keeping to my faith (and this was before I even became a so-called "trad"). I was accused of having "pre-Vatican II" morals, even before I knew what Vatican II was. I was many times accused of being "prudish". Boys ("men") would often tell me that they were surprised that I was a girl who was "feminine". I didn't really understand this either at the time, but today I do.
When I turned 30 and met more pious Catholics, it was basicaly the same thing, although, by this time I was much less interested in meeting someone. I joined a Catholic group and much to my surprise, since most of these men believed all the Church taught, yet they lacked virtues of temperance and modesty of actions (and did not keep from even creating for themselves recreations which entailed unnecessary near occasions of sin (i.e., co-ed camping, complete with immoderate alchohol consumption, and sacriledge --- the mass was 'celebrated' on the camp grounds). Again, I became despised, mostly among those I considered as friends, as being "too good for them", especially when I started attending the "old rite".
These things I share with you cost me much pain, since these were my brothers in Christ, who I took to my heart with the purist of intention, and desired for them a crown of glory in Heaven. It doesn't bother me that they gossiped about me for my sake, but for their own sake. It hurts that they partake in the Body of Christ while they despise the pious, and do things that put their soulsand the souls of others in grave perils. On the other hand, they do love the Church, but the Blessed Mother (on her feast days) has warned them time and time again, and they don't see it. I one time pointed it out to one of them, and they ignored the warning --- only to then experience what it means to have been removed from being under the Mantle of Mary.
Men are just as equally to blame for the disorders in today's society. Does a man who hangs out at the bars, dance clubs, etc. really expect to find a good woman? And if one such woman ignorantly/naively came to one of these places to find a good man, do you think she would be respected? And if so, to what degree? Before my conversion/consecration to Mary, I would go to these places to socialize and maybe meet a future spouse, and let me tell you, a chaste woman is hated by such men when they realize that her honor is for Christ and not for them to destroy. These are not men who want to be like St. Joseph, but rather effeminized men who seek first, if not only, to please themselves.
sɛҳuąƖ attraction is a function of fertility. After age 35, it is a steep and slippery slope for most, no matter what the media says. Women "of a certain age" have a harder time finding mates. "Independent" women are liable to be alone for more than half their lives.
A just woman is a terrible afront to the conscience of most men.