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Originally posted by grandmakdw
reply to post by Vitruvian
My post was satire! Reread it.
Anyway, I wanted the mods to know I didn't care if they had to move it. I am an old lady after all and forgot to choose the category it should go in. Just happened to land in this category by chance.
Originally posted by deepankarm
reply to post by snarky412
That's the ideal way in this world.
I won't want my wife to be in that condition if something happens to me.
Originally posted by Henley
reply to post by grandmakdw
Just who was that radio personality?
I remember a TV personality saying that a woman who cares for her children, never had a real job.
"You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you do."
Originally posted by grandmakdw
Originally posted by Henley
reply to post by grandmakdw
Just who was that radio personality?
I remember a TV personality saying that a woman who cares for her children, never had a real job.
The radio personality was reading excerpts form an article in the Atlantic by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
1% Wives Are Helping Kill Feminism and Make the War on Women Possible
Below is directly taken from her article:
Being a mother isn't a real job -- and the men who run the world know it.
I have to admit that when I meet a woman who I know is a graduate of, say, Princeton -- one who has read The Second Sex and therefore ought to know better -- but is still a full-time wife, I feel betrayed.
I don't want everyone to live like me, but I do expect educated and able-bodied women to be holding their own in the world of work.
I am going to smack the next idiot who tells me that raising her children full time ... is her feminist choice.
.... these women are the reason their husbands think all women are dumb, and I don't blame them.
...being a mother isn't really work. Yes, of course, it's something -- actually, it's something almost every woman at some time does, some brilliantly and some brutishly and most in the boring middle of making okay meals and decent kid conversation. But let's face it: It is not a selective position. A job that anyone can have is not a job, it's a part of life, no matter how important people insist it is (all the insisting is itself overcompensation).
Which is to say, something becomes a job when you are paid for it -- and until then, it's just a part of life.
This is what started my need to write my satirical rant.