How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Chip had grown up listening to his father pontificate on the topics of Men's Work and Women's Work and the importance of maintaining the distinction; in a spirit of correction, he stuck with Tori for nearly a decade. (2.192)
This is the first sign that Chip isn't as down with feminism as we think. Chip isn't with Tori for sincere reasons—he's just waging a proxy war with his dad.
Quote #2
He understood how important it was for women not to equate "success" with "having a man" and "failure" with "lacking a man," but he was a lonely straight male, and a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind. (2.279)
This is the best description of misogyny that we've ever read. Ladies, keep this in mind next time he complains that you text him too much.
Quote #3
In his doctoral thesis [...] he'd written extensively about cuckolds, and under the cloak of his reproving modern scholarship, he'd been excited by the idea of marriage as a property right, of adultery as theft (2.637)
If his affair with Melissa wasn't enough to tip you off, it starts to become clear that Chip's view on gender roles are a lot more traditional than he lets on.