Saturday, May 29, 2021

Feminist "Power Imbalance" Myth

Feminist "Power Imbalance" Myth

Feminist family lawyers try to disempower successful men by using government power to ensure that successful men cannot freely negotiate prenuptial contracts.  A marriage contract involves a man, a woman, and the government.  Compared with government power, both the woman and the man have trivial power.  Given that government power overwhelms spouse power, and is almost always applied against successful men rather than their fiancĂ©e/wives,  the "power imbalance" is against successful men.  Feminists try to use government power to prohibit financially successful men from negotiating the prenuptial contracts that the men could otherwise negotiate.  It is a myth that successful men benefit from a "power imbalance."  The "power imbalance" is against successful men. 

Apparently there is a "power imbalance" in prenuptial negotiations because there is a lot of competition among women for financially successful men.  Although both financially successful  men and less financially successful women can reject proposed prenuptial contracts that they do not like,  when men refuse marriage contracts the men consider unfair,  feminists lawyers bemoan a "power imbalance."  On the other hand,  there is a lot of competition among men for physically attractive women.   Physically attractive women can use this competition to their advantage in negotiations,  but this is apparently never deemed a "power imbalance." 

(I have no issue with family lawyers trying to use every legal avenue to act in their client's best interests.  Even if one questions whether an avenue should be legal,  a lawyer would not be doing her/his job if she/he did not try to use all available legal avenues.  What is troubling is the promotion of legal principles that promote gross unfairness.)


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