What should we call a divorced man? Women get a strange name-Divorcee, but what do we call men who are divorced?
I know this sounds like a joke that needs a good punchline, but I’m serious. Women are called divorcee, but what do you call a man who is divorced?
We have a title for women who are divorced. A nice French word,“DIVORCEES”, which sounds like a middle aged woman wearing kitten heels and smoking filterless cigarettes. But why do we have a name, a title, that brands us as previously married and the male of our species don’t?
All kidding aside, it is telling that the world needs a word to describe a woman’s previous marital status but society doesn’t feel the need to label a man’s track record. Why? No one really cares if a man’s been married before but a woman? It’s a mark.
Why don’t men have a title that says they’ve been married at least once already? I’ll tell you why. Because nobody cares if a man has been married before, but for a woman there is still a bit of old world stink. A slight stench of previously used goods. I think that the literal translation of Divorcee is, “someone’s been in my vagina already, so move along.”
If women are forced to have the word divorcee, I think that men deserve a stupid title too.
Maybe even a few words. One if you’ve been divorced once, a second word if you’ve been married twice before, and maybe a permanent tattoo on your forehead to warn everyone if you’ve been married three or more times, a sort of warning label for other ladies, so to speak.
I’m going to start a campaign to create a new name for men who are divorced. Set the social media world on fire. We can hashtag and share this new men’s title on social media. We can create a meme. It will be a nationwide/worldwide movement. Men could even list is on their business cards, like a professional title. DDS or MD, and then their marital status after their name.
Don’t you think that if women have a fancy french name, men deserve one too? Surely we can come up with a name that paints a similar picture for all those previously married men out there.
I have a few funny names I call a man who’d divorce but I should probably keep them to myself. Some of these names probably shouldn’t be put into print. But let me know what creative names you find for divorced men. Male divorcees deserve their own silly name too.