Letters to the Editor
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Oh, Angry Women of Salon, Listen Up!
This is for all the incredibly angry women whose unhappy childhoods and unresolved issues with their mothers or better looking younger sisters have turned them into little child-hating dictators who read Salon (esp. mmefiori - who calls herself an Epsicopalian and yet seems to have missed that at the heart of the Christian faith is hospitality and grace - perhaps you skipped too many conversion classes! God is not capitalism dear, the bottom line is more than just profits!)
It is not that "mommies" who work want breaks. It is that women who are not mommies don't have enough life outside of work and thus work becomes their life (true of men too of course -with or without the wife!). Thanks to these overly ambitious childless women and men the work week just keeps on getting longer. 9-5 not anymore thanks to those whose lives are devoted to the all mighty dollar so they can continually renovate homes and take exotic vacations with their husbands or boyfriend de jour. Its muscle flexing really - read Forbes magazine it reads like a bodybuilding trade magazine - all about endurance, pushing the limits - behind a desk and with an expense account. Let' see how many hours we can put it, how many Blackberrys we can purchase, how much we can complain about work exhaustion, and go on and on about a work life that interest no one. Its now stealth employment. And the great thing is - they ususally have these incredibly dull. soul destroying jobs that they have convinved themselves are actually important - marketing soup or doing public relations work for a hotel.
Here's your next group to go after: single welfare mothers -- there are still some left - think of the hand outs they are getting!!! Think about the hours they don't work! Think about the sick time they take when one of their kids is sick!!
OR: better yet go after Salon - women dishing women has always been a great marketing strategy. hmmmmm. Maybe we are being set up. Maybe if people stopped reacting to these deliberately controversial mom vs non-mom stories they would stop running them. Shall we ladies?