[BetaSteve]

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All by Anne-Marie Slaughter

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch...-all/9020/

Pretty good article by a high powered, feminist government worker. I don't like her recommendations at the end, but overall goes over the issues related to feminism in modern USA.

[Kitsune]

Holy fuck.

That article went on forever and ever in various regurgitations of why this woman is awesome and why I should listen to her about how hard her life is, and I scrolled down to the end and I realised there were 5 more pages.

So I read the end:

Quote:

We’ll create a better society in the process, for all women. We may need to put a woman in the White House before we are able to change the conditions of the women working at Walmart. But when we do, we will stop talking about whether women can have it all. We will properly focus on how we can help all Americans have healthy, happy, productive lives, valuing the people they love as much as the success they seek.

After throwing up, I read the paragraph above:

Quote:

My husband agrees, but he actually tries to get the young men in his classes to act more like the women—to speak less and listen more. If women are ever to achieve real equality as leaders, then we have to stop accepting male behavior and male choices as the default and the ideal.

..And let me tell you, I wanted to pull a jihad on something.

Will someone fill in the blanks for me?

[Kitsune]

Wait, I see you only have one post. Have I just been ed?

[tapanar]

(07-01-2012 12:50 PM)Kitsune Wrote:  

Wait, I see you only have one post. Have I just been ed?

[BetaSteve]

Lol. No way. First post. Just joined today. I love this forum and have been meaning to contribute.

I should have phrased that differently. I find the article "interesting," in that this is a feminists perspective. Let's in a sense, make the country more socialist so that more women can be in powerful positions. Oh and let's allow them to work only 30 hours a week so they can go home to their children and be good mothers. Let's make in MANDATORY that there be an equal amount of male and female senators.

I have no problem with women in powerful positions, if they choose to devout their life to that position. But to try and change legislation so that women, "have a break" to go home to their kids is complete bullshit. To make things "easier" for women in powerful positions.

But hey I guess this is where our country is going. Look at women in firefighting. I really believe that firefighting should be an exclusive male occupation, given our natural ability to put on considerable more muscle and overall be fitter.

[Basil Ransom]

Notice the username, BetaSteve.

The article and the responses it elicited are a nice indication of how severely deluded feminists are. This isn't me being pro-men or whatever. It's just fucking common sense arithmetic.

If you only have obligation A, you can devote 100% of your free time to it. If you take on obligation B, which also requires some time, you will devote less time to obligation A or ignore B entirely.

In a feminist world, it's possible to walk into a restaurant with $50 and get both the $50 lobster and the $50 Porterhouse. Yay for feminist math!*



*Actually, I think the real world feminist solution to this riddle is to make the man pay for at least half. Which is a lot like the affirmative action this woman is demanding.

So much of the time, I don't even think of myself as being pro-male or critical of Western women. I just don't believe this feminist flavored chick logic. That puts me, and this forum at the extremes of mainstream discussion. If you try and inject some common sense and evidence into a discussion, you're an 'extremist.'

The way society treats women's issues is funny. It's like when some hot chick gets up to say something, and what she says is just absolutely retarded. Out of politeness, people pretend she said something smart. Trouble is, we've been pretending so long we actually buy into her retard logic, and refuse to ever correct her. If anyone does try and correct her, she throws a shit fit, because she'd been led on for so long by so many that what she was saying was true.

[Timoteo]

This is both atypical AND typical of women. It's atypical in that she realized a hard truth, and admitted to it. It's typical in that she wants the world to change to accommodate her and women like her. In the end, it's still "I want everything, and I don't want to make any hard choices."