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If you're in the market for a divorce party, you should know there's a growing demand for "revenge cakes."

That means it shouldn't be too hard to find a tiered caked with the bride up top wielding a knife and the groom at the  bottom covered in blood.

How cute!

That doesn't bother me that much... the marketplace often rises up to meet the  need for novelty products. What rankles me, and has done for a very long time, is the way the reporting of such things is so entirely bias towards women and against men. As in paragraphs like this from a recent Toronto Star article:

"They didn't want to see his face, but they wanted to see this hideous gold grill he used to wear," the baker says of the former husband. Wielonda set to work, and the result was a two-dimensional cake in the shape of a man, with a paper bag covering his head save for a small cutout showing a gold tooth decoration. All around were the marzipan weapons."

Earlier in the article it was explained that the husband had turned out to be "a jerk."

Look, we all make mistakes in relationships... some of us marry them. But why is there such a common public assumption that when a union turns sour that it is ALWAYS the man's fault. What about just taking responsibility for a poor choice and moving on?

Frankly, I've grown tired of our social culture replicating one long episode of Sex and the City.

C'mon, let's let men off the hook sometimes, give them credit for being human although different than us (which is half the fun isn't it?) and let them have their dignity back instead of continually finding ways to emasculate them.