I couldn’t resist this story today on the triumph of Equal Rights ™ in our courts. And I’m not just posting this story because I’m a sweetback firing a financial salvo across Mrs. McMurphy’s ample budgetary bow:

Modern Males Say Living Off the Ex-Wife Is No Cause for Shame

By Anita Raghavan

As a Hollywood actor, John David Castellanos is protective of his image. He stays in phenomenal shape and looks much younger than his 50 years.

But he admits to a fact that might be considered unflattering: He receives alimony from his former wife. To be exact, $9,000 a month.

Thank you for understanding, Gloria.

In the nearly 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against gender discrimination in alimony, few male beneficiaries have stepped forward to talk about it.

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But today’s men are shaking off the stigma of being supported by their ex-wives. Several agreed to talk on the record for this article, in part because they say the popular image of the male alimony recipient is unfair: He’s not always a slacker.

I highlight this as I live in a state that gives new houses and cars to women who only serve a few months at Club Med(ication) after disconnecting the telephone and shotgun slaying their husbands in the back while they are asleep.

Until we can walk into a courtroom secure in the knowledge that merely being born with a vagina does not make you a better parent or until we can also kill all of our spouses with impunity – can we ever be truly equal?

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