Another thing you shouldn't need science to tell you

This study yields some obvious results. Well, obvious to people who aren't ideological Marxists, anyway:

"Most of the research literature in psychology has suggested that women have less power," Vogel told LiveScience. "They have largely based that on the fact that traditionally men earn more money and so therefore would have the ability to make big decisions in the relationship." That wasn't the case in this study.

It never occurred to these august bodies of scientific research that since those funds are being transferred into a common pool of money for the family to use that the wife has a great degree of freedom to dispose of them as she sees fit. It shouldn't come as a surprise that this obvious fact did not occur to them because it blows apart their assumption that mere possession of wealth is a form of social power, something that they get from their left-wing bias.

Trained volunteers coded the videotapes using a scale that rated couples' interactions based on words and behaviors associated with blame (blames, accuses and criticizes the partner); demand (nags, pressures for change, requests); withdrawal and avoidance (avoids discussion the problem by hesitating, changing topics, diverting attention or looking away); and discussion.

Wives were more demanding--asking for changes in the relationship or in their partner--and were more likely to get their way than the husbands. This held regardless of who had chosen the issue.

Using "science" to prove what is pretty obvious if you do a random, honest survey of men from any given generation still alive in the United States. Women do tend to make much greater demands in terms of behavior from men than vice versa. I can't believe that someone actually needs a formal study to believe that this is the case.

What would have been interesting would have been for the researchers to make the men find honest faults that they want to change in their wives, when the researchers detected signs that the woman's complaints weren't well-meaning, honest concerns but rather just bitchy nagging and demanding behavior. I'd wager they had more than a few of those in their study if they had built up a large enough pool to make their study credible. I think it would be interesting to see this done because they're already using science to prove what is obvious to most people (that women tend to expect more behavior changes from men than vice versa) so why not prove with "science" that there are plenty of women whose natures are to be controlling and nagging individuals?

Inspirational hat tip to Triton.

Fortunately me, my wife-to-be has a pretty solid understanding and agreement with Ephesians 5. She is also lucky that she is marrying a man with a generally type B personality, and thus will generally let her do whatever she wants when it isn't a "life decision."

Since I referenced something Triton wrote about Debbie Maken, I will note in passing that when you think about how much these women demand, and the fact that women initiate 72% or more of all divorces, it puts the lie to the suggestion that even most Christian women are just waiting for men to step up and be men. Rather, I think it clearly shows that many of them probably are much better off being single.