Amy Poehler, Will Arnett Divorce: 'Million Matchmaker' Patti Stanger Says Poehler's Success is to Blame
Last week, funny couple Amy Poehler and Will Arnett announced they were calling it quits after nine years of marriage.
But what could have been done to prevent the split? That's what 'Millionaire Matchmaker' and current People.com blogger Patti Stanger wondered, and came up with a controversial answer: Poehler should've been less successful.
Stanger does not provide any evidence for her claims and uses traditional gender roles to prove her point. According to her blog, men cannot handle being in a relationship with a woman who makes more money than him.
"Men like to provide. This goes back to the cavemen days. Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off."
She claims, "flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men," which undermined her argument and proved there is nothing "natural" about a man's insecurity regarding an overachieving mate.
Jezebel.com criticized the post and wrote, "Even if the caveman argument has some truth to it, men have had hundreds of thousands of years since then to work out their hunter/gatherer insecurities. Isn't it time they've adapted?"
Stanger warns female readers that rude comments will surely eat away at their significant other.
"...these comments burn and eventually, they'll wear away at your man's confidence. He'll start to notice the difficulties of your untraditional financial situation and even if the financial dynamic doesn't bother him, the attention to it might."
Plus, if the woman in a relationship works too much, her husband will feel "left out."
The Jezebel.com article, criticizes Stanger, who is known for making nasty remarks to her clients seeking love.
"And using her platform on People to blame a man's shortcomings on a woman's success-essentially equating professional success to personal failure-is just the shitty kind of thing a shitty shit like her would do."
To conclude her blog post, she wrote: "Let me know if you think I'm onto something or if I sound like I'm from the 1950s."
And, boy, did people sound off.
Many commenters criticized Stanger's personality and gave their opinion on why 51-year-old blogger has never been married.
One commenter wrote, "It's not 1982 is it? I would like to give men more credit than this article does. In today's economy does it really matter who is the main bread winner? Every household works in it's own way. Your theories are old."
But Stanger did have a few supporters. Among them was a commenter that wrote, "Patti is 1000% right. There are things that are intentionally and wonderfully designed into each gender; Men - Provide, Lead, Protect; Women - To carry babies, Multitask Nurture. Not bad...Not a rule. Just part of our design."
Do you agree or disagree with Stanger's theory? Tell us in the comments!
