Why men hate women who behave like princesses

The latest social media trend is the princess treatment - women who live a Stepford Wife existence. Here’s what men really think about it.

Most men hate women who behave like princesses.

There’s a new trend wafting through social media like the pungent aroma of over-priced candle wax.

It’s called the princess treatment, driven by a woman named Courtney Palmer whose TikTok videos espouse a type of Stepford Wife existence revolving around devotion to one’s man in return for not having to lift a finger unless it entails a ring fitting.

It’s an extension of the Trad Wife movement, only with extreme pampering.

These are women who think acts of service means you clean their car, walk their dog and listen attentively while they explain their horoscope. They seek a never-ending soft-focus montage scored by Ed Sheeran and funded by someone else. They don’t want a partner - they want a butler with abs.

If it’s real that is. I suspect Ms Palmer might be taking the piss, enjoying a bit of sport at the expense of the internet’s army of shrill feminists who see any form of reliance on men as heresy.

For instance The Guardian took the bait this week, in an article posing this question: “Is princess treatment a harmless trend - or yet more fuel for misogyny?”.

I can answer that. Most definitely yes it is fuel for misogyny, in the true sense of the word. Most men hate women who behave like princesses.

They might tolerate them long enough for successful seduction but after the thrill of the hunt has subsided any bloke worth his salt will skedaddle.

Men will open doors, kill spiders and pretend to enjoy interpretive dance if they fancy you enough. But they’re also feminists at heart, and take seriously the years of effort by women to stop being treated as little more than decorative arm candy.

Columnist Rory Gibson.

I dated a princess once. I knew it wasn’t going to last when, on a trip to Kakadu, she refused to get out of the car because there were flies about. As you might appreciate, it’s very hard to have an outback experience without flies. She left me for an insect-free inner-city princess existence, and I dodged a bullet.

My ideal woman is someone who can bait her own hook, use a whipper snipper and skin a rabbit with her teeth.

I’m not saying romance is dead, but if your idea of a romantic weekend is being photographed in a white robe holding a mimosa while I arrange your rose petals into a monogram, I’m afraid we’re not compatible.

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