Letters to the Editor
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All this to do....
And not a word about the Pregnant Man:
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=391879
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Before the women vs. men argument gets out of hand...
What we have here is a human rights issue, not only a feminist issue.
Work conditions in this country are deplorable, before, during and after feminism. Americans have always worked the most of hours of any first-world nation. We night enjoy greater wealth than many other nations, but our quality of life sucks. Even the Japanese, who work longer hours and more days per week, still average about 6-8 weeks of vacation per year, while American can only look forward to about 2 (if they're even willing to take it!) Aside from vacation, Americans also have less medical and maternity leave available, fewer health benefits, etc. etc.
This is not the fault of men or women exclusively. Nay, this is the fault of all citizens who have refused to fight for workers rights, who have succumbed the faulty belief in "trickle-down economics," and have allowed themselves to become rampant consumers are their jobs (both skilled and unskilled) are shipped overseas.
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So much scoffing
"Maybe not that last part -- but basically Spencer's point boils down to the idea that when women fought for their rights to enter male-dominated workplaces, they should have also done more negotiating on behalf of their families. But instead, not only did they try too hard to fit into the male working paradigm, leaving their kids in the dust, but they actually upped Americans' work standards, so that today, men and women are all working more than they used to, and family life is suffering as a result."
I'm a professional woman and a feminist... So, what exactly is the flaw in the above argument? This editorial ain't perfect, but it has nothing in common with that idiot piece that appeared in Wa Po a few weeks ago. Maybe Spencer's wrong for out-and-out blaming workaholism on women in the workforce, but I do agree wholeheartedly that the professions' requirements should have been redefined when women joined the workforce en masse, and that that didn't happen. There is something wrong when everyone is working harder and longer hours, yet women are still making 70 cents for every dollar a man makes. What is the matter with attempting to examine where we did go wrong, since we obviously did go wrong somewhere? Why do we attack other women for trying to open a public dialog on workplace issues? Instead, it seems lately like most feminists would rather throw up their hands and sigh, "Oh, I guess women just can't have it all after all." Feminists need to grow some balls and take some criticism once in a while.
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No Competition
Yes let's blame men for not changing the workplace rules to better suit women.....hello ? I don't hear a huge outcry from men about workplace rules. Somehow whenever women can not or don't want to compete, they blame men and try to change the rules. I can't wait for that huge job boom that's coming from all the female driven innovation and inspiration that's gonna hit the marketplace.....someday.
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Parson Jim
No one here has attacked "men" once. Re-read the posts and get a grip! Bad divorce?
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Anecdotal and possibly specious...
I'm in middle-ish management, and am one of only two males in my 12 person department. Our group is, in fact, the group that has been mandated to be the last one working at night by our boss. Only two of the women have children, and both of them have built-in child care (i.e. family in their homes or nearby who provide full time child care). The two males both have children, along with spouses who are professional women themselves.
The two guys are the ones who always need to leave early, or skip the department dinner because day care is day care and we can't leave our kids there past 5:30 or whatever. We're seen a little as slackers who need to get our priorities straight (my answer: they are, believe me, they are) because our boss (the one with free in-home care) can't imagine why we can't just have our spouses do it (of course, the other thing she misses: she's the one scheduling these events and late meetings, which get scheduled around her anyway).
I don't mean to come off as a whiner here...I'm happy with my priorities as they are, and I mostly like my work and my workplace. And I know my company isn't a bastion of gender equity; the middle managers are 70% women but the executive level is 95% male. But it's folly for Broadsheet or the Boston Globe to assume that woman="family friendly" or even "woman with children"="family friendly." And while deeply flawed for its finger-pointing, I think a lot of women's expectation of feminism was that they would "transform the workplace." How many times did women say "if women ran the (department, company, country, world), things sure would be different." Well, maybe, but maybe not so much.
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I blame overinarceration partly on feminists too
It was women who ruined the Democratic Party by supporting tough on crime Democrats who wanted to increase prison sentences for everything to make women feel safer.
In California right now, the state is struggling to find the money to pay for those huge incarceration commitments that Gray Davis, the feminists' favorite governor, led us into making.
We're laying off teachers and cutting Medi-Cal so severely that most doctors are leaving the program.
Our only hope for getting out of this mess is to convince Gray Davis' former supporters to stop blocking attempts to stop let nonviolent offenders out of jail.
So much for having a feminist governor.
Why do feminists always go for these liberal-hating Democrats like Gray Davis and Eliot Spitzer -- angry, arrogant men who want to put everyone in jail?
They want to build utopia one prison cell at a time.
Why do women fall for this shit so easily?
Are we really so easily controlled by our fear?
Look at Susan Kennedy -- a feminist role model. And the best friend the prison guards' union ever had in Sacramento outside of Gray Davis. You can always count on Susan Kennedy to stand up for the rights of the prison guards.
That's her main job in Arnold's government right now.
If you want meet someone powerful in the prison guards' union, just stand outside Susan Kennedy's office in Sacramento and one of them is bound to come walking in or out eventually.