To all heterosexual married couples throughout the world, you are engaged in a tragedy. In fact, based on what Professor Jane Ward of University of California-Riverside believes, you’re downright miserable.
According to The Blaze, the professor stated that heterosexuality is “tragic” due to the inequality that permeates heterosexual relationships and the toxic masculinity and misogyny that is rife within the heterosexual lifestyle.
"It really looks like straight men and women don't like each other very much,” Ward once said.
A lesbian herself, Ward claims that she "loves straight couples," and pities them for their unhappy lifestyle. To help them, she wrote a book called "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality."
"I wrote this book because I love straight people, and because the research on heterosexual marital satisfaction over the life course shows that straight couples are struggling to balance work and family obligations and this leads to frustration and resentment for many straight women, in particular," Ward said.
Telling straight people that their sexual preference is a tragedy isn’t likely to help.
According to The Blaze:
In a December article for Insider, Ward argued that by all appearances, men and women don't actually like one another.
Insider's Julia Naftulin reported, 'She feels sorry for straight people, especially straight women, who typically report some of the lowest sexual satisfaction in society, Ward told Insider. But she also feels sorry for straight men, who are pigeon-holed into toxic-masculine culture that teaches them they both need, and yet should also demean, women.'
'It really looks like straight men and women don't like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny,' Ward told the outlet. 'From an LGBT perspective, [heterosexuality] looks actually very tragic.'