Posted on 03/12/2013 5:49:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Poss biz opp here Laz.
Totally serious question: You think the world would be better off if half of all world leaders and CEO’s were women?
Only if you like soap operas writ large.
Is she a lesbian? Seems to be the normal lesbian talking points. “family is nothing, career is everything”
Don’t they ever learn? If (most of) us men wanted to marry someone competitive and successful in business, we’d marry another man. What we want is someone who can make life worth living, not someone who makes home into an extension of the office. If her home and family is not her first priority, then she becomes much less attractive in our eyes.
These ‘feminists’ push the “career before all” mindset and then they whine that no man will date them. They never learn!
She sure has found a clever way to unleash her fury at Muslim culture. Just wonder if it is too subtle for them to notice.
If you could sync their menses, we might have a chance. Otherwise we’re looking at a constant wave of moodiness, at least if my wife is any indication.
My wife, while not a vocal conservative, is sick and tired of these “high society” women preaching dominance of the working world. My wife is very old fashioned and believes that women are genetically and biologically programmed to birth, raise, and care for children and families. She thinks this militant feminist BS is destroying the confidences of otherwise great women by forcing them to choose between what they believe society wants of them (powerful working girl) vs. what biology has programmed them to do (children).
I realize this doesn’t encapsulate every woman, but I believe at some point, most women are driven toward child rearing whether they like it or not. To deny that impulse is a big reason why women don’t go full-tilt in the work place.
Men have, for time immemorial, been the caregivers, the breadwinners, the providers, and the protectors, and, like women, there are castes in male-dominated career fields where lines are drawn. For instance, men who are single are seen as less stable than men who are married and are less likely to be considered for a high-paying job over the married man.
Totally serious answer, NO!
Sure, they're "independent"... of family. "Independent" of a husband. "Free" from the responsibility of child raising and from being the "helper" for their husband.
But they're just all that much more dependent on the corporation or the government. They're the "helper" for some strange man that probably DOES have a family.
They're in the same role, only that role has been perverted and corrupted.
Knock me over with a feather! Anyone peruse the average shopping mall lately and figure out why women's clothing stores (and sections within department stores selling both) outnumber those for men by at least a factor of three?
Not so long ago, someone published a survey on self perceptions and found women who felt they were good looking was about 10%, average about 10% and unattractive about 80%. The breakdown for men, on the other hand, was a more logical 10% - 80% - 10%.
She was married to Brian Kraff, they divorced in 2004. She married David Goldberg to whom she is still married. They have 2 children
Straight forward decisions take 45 minutes to reach and a what should be a 15 minute meeting drags on for 2 hours, with almost nothing being resolved. Its freaking exhausting.
The equivocating, couching, and lack of assertiveness makes me feel like my head is going to explode.
All these liberal women who decry the relatively low numbers of women on corporate boards or in high-ranking political positions fail to understand that for most of us, the fire-in-the-belly is just not there. We just aren’t driven to conquer the world. Many of us are quietly ambitious, but that’s why we become small-business owners. We tend not to want to run the world. This is partly why so many women in high elective office are liberals: they represent the small minority of females who do want to run everyone else’s life.
They can’t change biology by legislation. Many of our tastes, interests, goals, and attitudes are hard-wired and not responsive to pressure. The desire to have children and care for them is wired into our brains. Our responsiveness to oxytocin—the neurochemical that is released during breast-feeding and imposes a certain broodmare tranquility on us at those times—is also innate. Libs, you need to deal with it.
Your company won’t remember you after your death. Your children will. How they will remember you is up to you.
So the world would be such a better place if women just stuck to the workplace and abandoned children to daycare, huh? How would it be wonderful without any decent people being raised by any mothers? You need decent people for a wonderful world.
I worked ONE day a week (opposite of my husband so no day care) for MANY years while my kids were young and even homeschooled for a while best decision I ever made. I am working more now that they are older, but don’t regret those early years at all. People thought I was crazy, too- just put them in daycare like everyone else. what are you so afraid of they said.
Bottom line.
``STUDENTS, faculty and guests of Wellesley College, welcome. As you know, Barbara Bush was supposed to be our commencement speaker. But at the last minute, she was asked to baby-sit for some of her grandchildren. Because she considers that to be a more fulfilling task, she has asked to be excused.
``In her absence, we have invited Chicago columnist Mike Royko to address you. Unlike Mrs. Bush, Mr. Royko has never been a housewife or mother. And he has a working career. So except for not being a female person, he fulfills the requirements of the 150 student feminists who signed petitions objecting to Mrs. Bush's presence. So I introduce Mr. Royko.''
``Thank you, Chancellor Whatsis, Dean Whoozits, and all the rest of you rich, Eastern elitists who have gathered at this citadel of snobbery.
``First, I would ask that nobody boo, jeer, or otherwise protest my presence, as I have a nervous stomach and that will make me throw up, which, in turn, will make you nauseous, causing some of you to retch, faint, or stampede toward the exits, thereby detracting from the solemnity of this occasion.
``Now for my commencement address. I will begin by saying that I know what you think I'm going to say. You think I'm going to give you the old `get out there and help make this a better world' routine, which is standard for commencement speeches.
``You expect me to tell you to think not only of yourself, but to do something with your lives that will help mankind - excuse me, I meant personkind. And that you should think of the downtrodden of society, the have-nots, and all the social ills that afflict our nation and the world.
``OK, if you want to be do-gooders, that's fine, as long as you don't get obnoxious about it. But chances are you won't, because you are more concerned with your own happiness than some stranger's, so we'll leave it at that.
``Instead, I would like to talk about the crummy way some of you treated Mrs. Bush, crabbing that she wasn't a worthy choice to speak here because she dropped out of college, got married, and was never anything but a wife, mother, grandmother and homemaker.
``Actually, I'm glad you did that, because it touched off a national debate and gave a lot of pundits a chance to get their minds off Lithuania and ponder your silliness.
``So I'd like to ask you a question. Those of you who have ever gone through 9 months of pregnancy and 12 hours of labor, raise your hands.
``That's what I thought.
``Now, those of you who have ever hauled yourself out of bed at midnight to change the diaper - non-disposable and with pins - and handle the late feeding of a baby, raise your hands.
``That's what I thought. Probably never made formula, either, right? Or boiled any nipples? Or had a boy baby wee in your eyes?
``OK, now I want to see a show of hands from any of you who have been up at 5 a.m., when the baby starts crying for a bottle, and stayed up all day taking care of the kid while getting the older kids off to school, then making dinner for the whole family, and finally collapsing into bed at 11 p.m.
``Uh-huh, as I suspected.
``Young female creatures, I don't think any of you know what work really is. You think a working career is tough? Let me tell you about working careers. In most of them, when 5 or 5:30 p.m. rolls around, you lock your desk, turn off the office light, and go over to Harry's Place for a drink.
``But at 5 or 5:30 p.m., a young Barbara Bush, or a young Wanda Kowalski, isn't turning off the office light and ordering a white wine.
``She's probably sitting there with a kid going through the terrible twos, and the kid is saying: `Why sun go down, Mama?' So she explains. And the kid says, `Why?' And she explains some more. And the kid says, `Why?' Ten more times the kid says, `Why?' Before she's done, she's into the meaning of the universe, and the kid is still asking, `Why?'
``Meanwhile, a pot is boiling over, two of the older kids are fighting over which channel to watch, and the dog is barking to go out before he ruins the rug.
``Or it's noon. You, in your real-world career, are going out for a power lunch. What's young Barbara, or Wanda, doing? She's just grabbed a load out of the washer and dumped it into the dryer, and is making a mad dash for the nursery school. Or maybe the pediatrician, because one of the kids has red spots all over the face and a 102 temperature.
``By the way, how many of you are adroit in the use of a rectal thermometer at 3 a.m.? Please hold up your hands. Uh-huh.
``This is an unfair question, I know, because of your ages. But have any of you taken a totally helpless infant and guided it through those important early developmental years, reading to it, playing educational games with it, then getting it through one grade after another of school, making sure it does homework, trying to teach right from wrong, providing decent, humane values, until finally one day you have before you a fully grown, mentally developed, useful, intelligent and likable human being - your very own creation?
``Do you realize how much mind-boggling, back-breaking, nerve-frazzling, self-depriving, 16-hour days of work this takes, if you are going to do it right? And you don't consider that a career?
``A final question: How many of you consider yourselves able to hit a good tennis backhand?
``Fine. I knew you had accomplished something.
``Well, in conclusion, I can only say: The back of my hand to you, too.''
“No man would dare to suggest, for example, that the field of nursing or teaching would be improved if men were more equally represented. “
Men and women RN’s openly admit it to each other all the time. Because there have been improvements in pay and benefits with more men represented. (disclaimer notice: I am an RN)
I’m with your wife (”My wife believes that women are genetically and biologically programmed”). There are powerful hormonal, biological urges that come into play with childbirth. Thinking ideologically does not change that.
“You can have it all” is not ever how life works; there are time and human limitations. But you do have seasons of life in which you can focus on different things - one season, raising children; another season, empty nesting. And there are always bits of time here and there to make your life full and balanced.
I didn’t know there were male nurses until after I had a surgery on my neck in the hospital at Fort Campbell, Ky in 1968. The German word for nurse is Krankenschwester which is definitely feminine
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