In Wendy Shalit's "Is Infidelity Natural? Ask the Apes"(02, Sept. 2010) she states that men feel as if its ok to cheat because they're considered animals. Shalit doesn't write in chronological order, she quotes words from articles on the subject. The author's purpose was to entertain in order to show how ignorant men in this society think after cheating. The intended audience would be women and men because women should know how they think and men need to know how stupid it sounds.
I liked this essay because I always wondered what would make a man cheat. I never knew they would do it for such silly reasons, for ex: what a woman brings in the house money wise. I feel as if you're in love with a person it shouldn't matter how much money they're bringing in vs. yours because you're in it together. Men have to learn self control and understand that just because something happens in nature doesn't mean that they're supposed to act that way too.
Shalit quotes the title of an article "Men More Likely to Cheat on Women With Bigger Paychecks" (116) she states that the headline quoted "A man who makes significantly more money than his girlfriend or wife is also more likely to cheat"(116) she thought it was ridiculous that something like that could cause a man to cheat. It made high and low-earning ladies everywhere beware of men like that. She states "I have already notified my husband that I am onto him, and that he may no longer defend or accumulate me for "pair bonding".(116) She said that in a joking matter after saying that men marry women only to have possession of something for "women duties" around the house and have a mistress on the side for other things.
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