All Comments on 'Welcome to the New World - The Stories'

This is the big ol buffet. A day I can just take my pick of great stories from great writers. I really look forward to these. Thanks to all the writers.

Some of my favorite authors are taking part. I just skimmed the stories to see what category people had selected and to decide where to start. Since it's late on the West Coast I thought I'd start with a short story and go to bed. Imagine my surprise when I opened the LW section and the first stories we all 9 pages long! While I look forward to those tomes, I decided to start with Ohio's very short story that turned out to be a historical piece involving the Queen of Spain. A surprise to be sure. And in the wrong category I thought. But it was great to see Ohio back. Thanks for the effort of all the authors and to QHML1 for organizing it.

you mean to say that men will now only get 33% of the jail time for the same crime a woman commits?

men will be seen as the primary care providers, and receive special kid gloves in divorce courts?

women will do like 90% of all the hard industrial jobs and the military?

men will now be able to more easily sneak their their child outta wedlock and trick the wife into raising him/her as the wife's own child?

all the while men will bitch on social media, the culture will constantly depict women as stupid and crass, women specific medical issues will largely receive only 5% of the money and attention a similar male specific disease will get?

SIGN. ME. UP. I love this idea.

Plan to read all and comment over time.

I just read them all and must admit to being a bit disappointed.

When I saw the title and description for the event, I was expecting a host of stories about tyrannical women in power, abusing their position... and their husbands. I was hoping for at least one really satisfying BtB tale, but none really fit the bill.

Most were actually pretty mild, with the wives staying faithful, and the rest ending in reconciliation. The best of the bunch should really have been in the romance category rather than loving wives!

Anony, bitching about "Women" and Feminists from guys like you two is like a couple of teens in their outgrown cardboard box fort bitching about how none of the hot girls in HS will date them.

Yeah divorce laws seem grossly unfair sometimes, radical strident academics suck, and the Women's talk show herd mentality is often unfair to good men.

But if all that makes you super pissed, at ALL women, why not just go full ass on MGTOW, and take some incels along for the transition???

But I'm REALLY wanting the other 8 chapters of carvohi new story.

Great idea, and some excellent stories here. It's particularly nice to see a number of stories that actually have well-developed wife characters, with nuances, doubts, motivations, the ability to be self-critical, etc., as opposed to the often-seen straw women cartoons who are simply set up in order to be knocked down. That's not true of all of these stories, of course, but a far higher percentage than most in this category.

I think most of the writers hit it right on the button with the change in female attitudes in today's society. They showed it without beating up the female gender which I am happy for. But the males of today are being asked to do most of the changing with very little give by the opposite. I think that equality should be the just that, equal for all. Both should be asked to give and take and to not only see it one way. Most of you did a great job on this subject. CONGRATULATIONS!

I've read them all. A few are extraordinary. I found that even the worst is still a good interesting read. No stinkers here. This is a very successful challenge. Thank you,

I was also expecting these stories to be much darker. Unlike some others though, I wasn't disappointed by the end product. They were all stories worth reading and some authors delivered a story among their best ever. The darkest story came from the one author I wouldn't have expected it from. I won't say who that is because it would ruin the delightful surprise. A great event. Kudos to all involved.

Finished all the LW stories and they range from very good to unbelievably good. I'm off to catch Bebop, Randi, Piper and other favorites in the other areas. This invitational has been great.

Just finished all the stories listed, WOW. There was a lot of heart there, well done all, look forward to more in this series or one like it, great reads all.

Ive read all the stories. I thank all the authors for their efforts, even the stories I have issues with.

My interpretation must be different than most regarding the depiction of power in most of these stories. In my opinion it seems like power and wealth is confused with selfishness. Most of the characters with so-called power are in fact only selfish and react adversely when the ones the they think they control refuse to "go with the program". It shows that they are in fact powerless by not being able to control the one person they want to control.

In the case of the loving wives stories the wife's power is an illusion. The husband through love of his wife allows the wife to get her way to make her happy. In most cases we don't see the evolution of this and how the wife selfishness turns to disrespect, lying, manipulation, and cheating.

In my opinion a strong marriage is maintained when both spouses are willing to put the other over themselves. When only one does this, the marriage will eventually fail, through cheating, disrespect, etc. most times because the one who is assumed to be lesser of the two finally realized the one sided nature of the relationship.

In my opinion power is trusting your spouse in such a way to love you, care for you, respect you without getting hurt. Once the hurt is revealed the trust is gone.

I enjoyed all of them, and maybe for the first time did not even look up the name of the author before reading. Read different work from almost all of the writers here, and the end product is superb! I will be leaving comments under separate stories, but here I have to admit that the Bebop3 narrative of an 11 year old girl was really really good, and not even once made me roll my eyes at the incredulity of conversation or expressed thinking. Will be following these collaborations more closely in the future, that's for sure.

but I thought I should suggest "Glory Road" by Robert Heinlein as perhaps the best treatment of this topic I have every seen.

My highest recommendation, especially for this forum.

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