Posted 1/24/2009 12:37:00 PM by Douglas

This is still not news: Women don't want to work any more than men do.

Women do not really want careers. “Ask a group of mothers if they would continue to work full-time if they didn’t have to and the answer will overwhelmingly come back ‘No!’” she writes. In her universe, women prefer to “devote hours to planning a pumpkin patch excursion or to scrapbooking our most recent family vacation.”

Opting out of work in a two-income world, though, requires financial sacrifice. So wouldn’t it be better to help your husband make a lot of money instead? That way, you can quit but not have to budget “all the niceties out of life.” Sure, women these days often have professional degrees and professional skills, but a smart woman doesn’t let this reality tie her to the workforce. Instead, a good wife uses “all the wonderful talent, intelligence, and skill she possesses to help her husband get ahead.”

I don't understand why the feminazis take so much umbrage with this notion that people, both men and women, would rather be taking care of their families than riding a timeclock downtown.

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Posted 7/20/2008 02:43:00 PM by Douglas

Be careful what you wish for, girls. Sometimes feminism comes back to bite you on the ass. Sometimes it requires you to sit eight hours in a boring fucking cube. Here's what some other women are doing with their days.

I dance and sing and play the guitar and listen to NPR. I write letters to my family, my congressional representatives, and to newspaper editors. My kids and I play tag and catch, we paint, we explore, we climb trees and plant gardens together. We bike instead of using the car. We read, we talk, we laugh. Life is good. I never dust.

Makes ya wonder who won (and who lost) that culture war.

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Posted 12/11/2003 07:16:00 PM by Douglas

Here's a shocker: Men don't want to work in mind-numbing jobs any more than women do.

Most surprising to me, is that most of the women, including many Ivy League graduates, either don’t want an income-earning job or will only work part-time in an unusually pleasant job.

Pardon me while I snicker about your Ph.D. under my breath, but I think this is only "surprising" to you. Work sucks, buddy, and it didn't take the power of the feminist movement for humanity to realize this. If there is someone else in the house that's going to support you in the lifestyle to which you've become accustom, regardless of their genitalia, more power to you: catch up on your soaps and shut the hell up.

The number of "housewives" is increasing? Well who could have foreseen that? As I said earlier, Nobody wants to work, so why in the hell are the feminists (and now crybaby men) making such a big deal about it?

High floutin' head shrinkin' not withstanding, why do men die before their wives?

Because we want to, dammit.

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Posted 11/30/2003 10:52:00 PM by Douglas

Through citing some pretty specious reasoning this guy thinks that women don't want to join the workforce because they're lazy. Well, duh. Who does? Want to work, that is. Then you have your Nanny-envy:

And then there’s the nanny lifestyle. Woman C remembers coming home from a typically enervating day at work on a gloriously hot evening and saying to the nanny, ‘Hi, how’s your day been?’ And rather gallingly, the nanny replied, ‘Oh, fine. I’ve just sat by the pool and watched the children all day.’ Within the month, Woman C had given up work and the nanny was jobless. And, indeed, pool-less. Serves the bitch right, no?

Ouch. Uh, I don't think I have the proper genitalia to make a judgment on that statement, but I sure can't argue with that. Ruling out all those who don't have nannies, who wouldn't rather sit by the pool all day? I don't think women are beating their brains out at a job all day from lack of "childcare legislation," whatever the hell that might mean. Where is this all going?

The conclusion we might draw from all of this is that a) there are indeed cultural pressures that contribute to keeping women in the home and b) there are in some cases economic pressures also, but c) a lot of women don’t work because they don’t like working — for many of the reasons why men don’t like working, if we’re honest. It’s a drudge.

Argue with that last one. I dare you.

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