Stand By Your Man

So said Tammy looking like a perfect Stepford Wife.  Every man's fantasy.  A flawless and demure doll who would stand by her wayward husband at all costs because, after all, he's just a man.

That song caused outrage at the time from horrified women who baulked at the Victorian sentiment that pushed back the female cause by 60 years.  In the end, Tammy's hymn to him didn't stop the feminist flow and over the last 30 odd years women in Western culture have really come into their own.  Juggling family life and careers so successfully that equality is almost not an issue now.  Some might say that our sisters went too far as ladette culture created a new breed of binge drinking sexual predators that had men running scared.  The roles became reversed as New Man was consumed with spray tan, body waxing and glossy mags with blokes in tight white underwear.

What we're led to believe by all this Jordanesque behaviour is that it's Game, Set & Match to the fairer sex.  However underneath this orange veneer is a much more disturbing truth that in reality things haven't really changed at all since Mr Wynette was given carte blanche to have his good times by the down trodden missus.

Every time we open a paper or magazine these days we're bombarded by sordid stories of high profile husbands having furtive escapades with whatever slappers happen to be served up on a plate for their sexual gratification.

Now this is nothing new and we all know that men are genetically designed to be controlled by the contents of our pants but what's happened to the power of a woman?

There's not a week goes by without some dim witted WAG choosing to humiliate herself in the media by forgiving her man......because she loves him.  Do these people not watch Jeremy Kyle?  If there's no trust in a marriage then no amount of Jimmy Choos or Gucci bags is going to give you self esteem and happiness.

Reading through the Sunday rags today we're told that Cheryl and Ashley's reunion is inevitable and that poor Mrs Giggs has decided that she can live with a man who has allegedly had multiple affairs and shagged his brother's wife.

Unfortunately these idiots are the role models of a generation and the message being given here is loud and clear and no different to that song from 1975.

You'll have bad times
And he'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand
But if you love him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just a man

Are women smart? I suggest that men aren't as dumb as women think they are.