Letters to the Editor
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Anna's list of brutal truths ...
1) There will never be a matriarchy. The men won't allow it, and the women don't really want it. A small minority, like you, fantasize about it, but most don't really want to run the show.
Men who flap on about "matriarchy" are terrified that if there were real justice and a real meritocracy they would end up on the bottom of the barrel. They tend to be more insecure than average about their own abilities in the workplace and elsewhere.
2) Corporations and businesses don't care, at all, about what happens to working mothers. Businesses exist to make money. Period.
Smart corporations and businesses do care about what happens to working mothers because they comprise a significant portion of the talent pool. When they push a smart mom out of their company through inflexibility or prejudice, they incur all the costs of turnover and retraining ... AND risk that she will come back into the workplace in five years working for their competitor!
3) The economic changes we're all allegedy seeing are not the result of feminism. They're the result of economics.
Well I said social changes in the first place. But even Ronald Reagan acknowledged that there was a huge economic impact to having a large influx of women workers in the 1970s. We're still absorbing the impact of that ... be it the great jumps in women's earning power, homeownership, entrepreneurship, the growing demand in the service economy, the changes in education ...
4) Unless you work at a magazine, or don't work at all, I doubt very much you would say any of what you just wrote to your boss.
What I would or would not say to my boss is irrelevant. Truth is truth. Justice is justice. Fairness is fairness. Whining is whining.
5) There are plenty of female bedmates out there. I just have to pick one.If I don't like the one I've got, I can replace her.
And now she can replace you too. Because she does not need you to survive economically. 100 years ago that was rarely true.
6) Most women are mediocre mothers.
Okay, so welcome to the land of cognitive dissonance ... women are mediocre mothers and somehow it is better for the human race if they do nothing but procreate and nurture ... these two ideas do not go together. They cannot both be true.
UNLESS it is true that men are even more mediocre fathers! And I haven't seen that in the real world.