Letters to the Editor
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Hardly worth it...
>Men who are very successful don't marry career women. They may fuck them, but they won't marry them.<
And they (and men who think like that) are not worth dealing with, much less marrying. What really burns men like Noer (and this letter's author) is that women now have options beyond being a subservient wife-cow with nowhere to go and no support but her husband. It peeves them no end that women can have happy lives without them. The only way they feel they can regain control is to 1) make women feel they aren't real women if they don't abide by these standards; 2) scare them into believing their lives will be nothing if they don't grab a man, any man. Unfortunately for them, enough women realize that any man who can't deal with any woman who's not strictly a housekeeping blow-up doll is not a man worth shackling your life to.
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"Obviously, this guy is a Log Cabin Republican!"
I read parts of this article to my husband, who started to laugh and then said that this guy has got to be gay... and not the kind of gay guys we hang out with, but a Log Cabin Republican.
I had to agree with Gloria Steinem and laugh, at least at first.
Then I thought of the guy two doors down from me whose wife, with her sterling Texas high school education, is homeschooling their kids (including a teenager) because (God forbid!) our local school is "humanist!"
There are a LOT of guys like this writer out there, unfortunately.
Here's to the good ones!
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so much for biologically based gender differences
Basically, the article states that women, given the same chances at career success as men, will make similar decisions and behavioral choices as men, even to the point of not getting pregnant. Rather than spin this as some kind of horrible problem, it's more of a victory for the human spirit. Reminds me of how the research a few years back that showed that unmarried women over a certain age could now manage to find perfectly happy lives without getting married, unlike in the past, got spun by the media into a picture of these vast herds of old maids pining over their lost chances to trap a husband, foolishly squandered in search of finding fulfilment in the workplace, instead of an MRs. degree.
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"published not in some righty rag"
"but in a supposedly mainstream business publication". Forbes is indeed a righty mag, the spoiled brat ravings of its owner/publisher being a recurrent feature.
They are definitely fellow travelers, at least in the economic and foreign policy areas. Why should anyone be surprised that it spills over to the cultural side.
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"Men who are very successful don't marry career women", as if they had the choice.
"Men who are very successful don't marry career women. They may fck them, but they won't marry them"
And successful career women wouldn't be dumb enough to marry these lowlifes, would they? They may fck them, but they won't marry them.
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deering
Men, such as myself, who make real money and have real careers don't waste our time in a 2 "job" household which has competing agendas and time demands and detracts from our actual careers which generate real returns and real income. Not an income which is under $200K annually, but an income which is well over 7 figures annually, before bonuses and profit sharing. Under this scenario I don't need that "extra" income that another job brings. I don't need the extra distraction and time demands that another job brings. I don't need the hassles or problems that evolve from it. I don't want to control anyone but myself but why get involved with a woman whose will never generate near the earnings I do and will continue to. With my situation I don't want someone who is working as hard as I am. Ideally a partnership is one where opposing strengths meet and compliment each other, if I ever choose to marry. That being said I have fucked career women and they are a desperate sort. I know of one woman who is a vascular surgeon and quite a lovely lady, but when she wanted to become involved with me I told her the truth. The truth was that she wanted to have children and it is unlikely to occur under the natural course of events (unless she finds a "donor" or adopts) as she has chosen a career 1st. The men she wants to be with (as most career women want) is a man who makes more money that she does, which limits her options. Women don't marry "down", they prefer to marry up. Most men marry down from their financial station. Most men marry the most attractive woman their income/career will obtain. Most men marry a much more successful man. Thus, career women limit their options. I don't make the rules, I just play by them. I continued to fuck the vascular surgeon but told her I would never marry her, ever, or anyone like her. Her career came first, whether she admitted that or not (and it should, as she went to medical school for a reason) but it does severely limit her options. Go ahead and live in your rose colored world. I will continue to live, and enrich myself, in reality.
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$30,000 -- ???
Thirty large works out to less than $15 per hour. In Southern California, that barely covers rent, food, utilities and car upkeep (forget about health insurance and savings).
I guess the men at Forbes expect women to live in penury until they get married, whereupon they should quit their jobs ASAP before they get raises or better jobs and turn into whiny, spoiled career-obsessed harpies. What a crock.
Most married couples have figured out, even if the dinosaurs at Forbes haven't, that two incomes are often a necessity, not a luxury. Maybe Forbes should take a look at the stagnant wages and rising prices that force men and women to work long hours (and sometimes at more than one job) just to keep their heads above water.
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Does the Forbes 500 refer to the collective IQ of their whole editorial staff?
"The story about careers was taken down so we could put up a new, enhanced package," said Forbes. Perhaps they could enhance Michael Noer's package. Maybe then he wouldn't feel so threatened and insecure.
I look forward to reading more of Forbes' helpful marriage hints, including, "Don't Marry a Lazy Black Guy," "Steer Clear of Those Greedy Jews," "Hide The Explosives From Your Muslim Husband," "By All Means Avoid The Drunken Irish," and "Be Prepared To Beg For It From Your Frigid Catholic Wife."