Posted on 04/29/2016 4:14:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Stop hiring women, I guess is the message they want to convey to businesses
What’s “meternity” leave?
It is frustrating. But men have had to deal with this forever. They are just complaining about being treated equally like a guy.
Men too! everybody get paid time off. In fact, why work? just give a guaranteed income to everybody.
Shouldn't this thread be paired with the stupid "women are underpaid" thread?
That one seems to be quite common lately.
I think we normally call that me time vacation and quitting jobs.
So, men (the many who never take “family leave”) should also get “me-ternity” leave?
What an idiotic statement.
Maybe instead she should speak up about the REAL injustice of childless people paying for schooling that they never utilize! (Or those who pay extra for private instead!)
Men can get this FMLA time also if they like and it’s relevant.
The point is, people who don’t have children “should get time off”....which is a stupid point.
Well, I can see this point of view. A woman I know, childless, complained to me that she got extra work dumped on her when the other women who worked with her got off and got paid for it. And then the countless soccer practices, problems at school, plays, dentist appointments, baseball practices, and so on when they left at noon - is that fair? I deal with the same thing from a man’s point of view with my male co-workers.
Don’t I pay enough for schools and get no benefit from it? I can’t even flush a toilet (absolutely true) around here without paying a school tax. So every time I take a dump, I do so “for the kids”.
I remember a law show episode years ago, maybe Ally Macbeal, maybe Law and Order.
A mother was suing that she was working 40 hours and not getting promoted as much, that wasn’t fair. The young childless professional woman representing the client brought up her personal (character) view - “I work 70-80 hours a week, I work weekends, I don’t take vacations while you take days off for childcare and school holidays. Why should you get the promotion ahead of me? How is that fair? And if I get the promotion when you don’t, that isn’t sexism, that is merit, a reflection of who works harder.”
The mother complained she couldn’t work those hours.
The younger attorney said, “There are women who work those hours, some hire nannies, some have husbands doing all the work. But you want to do everything, and you can’t, and while that’s not fair in your view, you getting the promotions and raises when I work longer and harder isn’t fair.”
Feminists think you can have it all - and you honestly cannot. You can have a full tilt career or full time parenting or rich social life with activities - but only so many hours in a day. There’s a reason women’s salary growth curves tend to slow or stall after having kids - because they instinctively spend more time on kids. That’s not sexist except to the degree having kids tends to put the burden on women. Some men take on the burden, some women don’t have children. But you can’t be there for the kids and be there for work ...
This “meternity” to try to say non-mothers should get equal time off actually hurts women more. How? By saying women need time off for “whatever”, without even the “my kid is sick” excuse. And if women in mass start demanding this, the childless women who work the long hours will be sidelined by employers afraid they’ll start needing random breaks, too, and hire guys instead. It is safer, then, to actually discriminate against women.
I’ve had women identify themselves as pet parents, showing off pictures of their pets in costume when I showed pictures of my human children in costume.
[[Foye, 38, thought up the idea when she was a magazine editor and became “envious” of her co-workers who would leave to care for their children after their eight hour days. She said that she felt as if all of the childless workers had to then pick up the slack and work for ten or more hours a day.]]
She is complaining about women with children who worked their 8 hours and then went home .
Bet she is management and paid salary , management is suppose to stick around and put in more hours when needed and they collect larger paychecks to do that.
If they cut time , don’t show etc I can see being upset and even firing them but complaining that someone works their shift and goes home is down right petty.
Of course you can! You can even remain pregnant as long as you want to! It's 2016, and this is America!
These people would be disappointed I’d they got what they truly deserved.
The whole pay me for having a kid and not working idea is stupid socialism.
When stupid policies are in a business and no one feels like they can say so, or when govt forces businesses to adopt stupid policies, then we’re under fascism or socialism. Speak up and you will be in trouble comrade.
As a 52-year-old white, never married, childless woman, the rationale for their opinion is beyond my comprehension.
However, I do expect a REALLY good retirement party/gift to make up for all the wedding and baby showers over the years!!
I didn’t say anything about 50 or 60 year old women. 50 or 60 years old is FAR from the peak fertility years.
I don’t read Cosmo, but I know plenty of women who whiled away their twenties, and even their early thirties, more concerned about jobs and having fun, and then suddenly found out they probably would not be having children unless they could find a sucker to drop tens of thousands of dollars on fertility treatments. There is a reason why at least half the women around that age carry around tiny purse dogs now, and wear perpetual scowls. They did not think things through.
You can also spot them because they’re the ones who, when other women are talking about their children, loudly talk about how GLAD they are that they chose not to have kids, all the while stealing evil looks at the happy mothers.
Just who couldn’t see it coming?
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