LOL!! So GA are you saying you agree with this?

"Grizzlie Antagonist" 
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> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:06:40 GMT, "MCP"

> wrote:
>
> >http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=618472
> >
> >      By Maxine Frith, Social Affairs Correspondent
> >      10 March 2005
> >
> >
> >      They are the generation of women who grew up expecting to have it
all.
> >No longer forced to choose between children and a career, they were set
to
> >embrace superwomanhood by doing both - while holding down a perfect
> >relationship and keeping a spotless home in their spare time.
> >
> >      But modern woman has taken a reality check. The average 29-year-old
> >now hankers for a return to the lifestyle of a 1950s housewife. The
> >daughters of the "Cosmo" generation of feminists want
nothing more than a
> >happy marriage and domestic bliss in the countryside, according to a
survey.
>
>
>
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
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> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!
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> YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!   YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES! YES!
>
>
> Now all of the people, sojourners and otherwise, who said that it was
> IMPOSSIBLE to turn back the clock have been proven wrong.
>
> Oh, to be 29 again!  And to be able to support a single family on one
> income!
>
> Oh, esperance!
>
>
>
>
>
> >      Research into the attitudes of 1,500 women with an average age of
29
> >found that 61 per cent believe "domestic goddess" role
models who juggle
top
> >jobs with motherhood and jet-set social lives are "unhelpful" and
> >"irritating". More than two-thirds agree that the man
should be the main
> >provider in a family, while 70 per cent do not want to work as hard as
their
> >mother's generation. On average, the women questioned want to "settle
down"
> >with their partner by 30 and have their first child a year later.
> >
> >      Vicki Shotbolt, deputy chief executive of the National Family and
> >Parenting Institute, said: "This is the generation of young women who
have
> >seen the 'have it all' ethos up close and personal, and they have
realised
> >that it doesn't work.
> >
> >      "Their own mothers may have tried to juggle motherhood
and careers,
> >and it may have been the children who feel they lost out ... I think
women
> >really are coming of age now, and are accepting that it is virtually
> >impossible to have it all."
> >
> >      And after decades of soaring divorce rates and a rise in births
> >outside marriage, it appears the next generation of mothers is reverting
to
> >more traditional social mores.
> >
> >      Nine out of 10 young women would rather be married when they have
> >children, while 75 per cent believe that modern couples do not make
enough
> >effort to stay together.
> >
> >      A quarter of those questioned intend to give up work and be a
> >full-time mother when they start a family, with just 1 per cent saying
their
> >career will remain a "top priority" once they have children.
> >
> >      According to the survey, for New Woman magazine, young women do not
> >crave the singleton glamour of the Sex and the City series, nor the
suburban
> >competitiveness of Desperate Housewives. While just 28 per cent want to
live
> >in a city, 34 per cent desire life in a small town and for 38 per cent,
> >their ideal life would be in a village. Just 5 per cent rate their top
> >priority in a relationship as "great sex" while 95 per
cent say what they
> >really want is commitment from a partner.
> >
> >      Even traditional hobbies, such as knitting, have been making a
> >comeback, with cinemas offering "stitch and bitch"
sessions for women who
> >want to watch a film while creating the perfect homespun jumper for their
> >man.
> >
> >      And the "superwomen" role models of the 1990s have
also fallen from
> >grace. Last year Nicola Horlick, who wrote a book entitled Can You Have
It
> >All? about her life as a mother of five and millionaire fund manager,
> >announced she and her husband were to divorce.
> >
> >      Lorraine Candy, the editor of Cosmopolitan, resigned from her job
and
> >later attacked the magazine's owners over comments they made about her
> >taking maternity leave. "There is a growing realisation that
being at the
> >top of a career might not make you happy in the way that marriage and
> >children might do," she said.
> >
> >      Margi Conklin, editor of New Woman, said: "There has been a
> >fundamental shift in young women's attitudes towards life and work.
They've
> >watched their own mothers trying and often failing to 'have it all' and
have
> >decided they don't want it all. They don't want to work crazy hours while
> >their children are put into nurseries and their relationships
disintegrate
> >under the strain."
> >
> >      She went on: "Young women today are increasingly putting their
> >personal happiness before a big salary or high-powered career. Above
> >everything else, they crave a work-life balance where they can enjoy a
> >fulfilling relationship, raise happy children and have a job that
interests
> >them but doesn't overwhelm them. The age of the 'superwoman', who wants
to
> >be the world's best mother, wife and boss, is dead."
> >
> >      'I travelled around the world with work but I really love my life
now'
> >
> >      Chris Lovelock, 36, from Southfields, south-west London, had a
> >high-flying career as an IT consultant until she decided to give up work
in
> >favour of family life.
> >
> >      Now she is a full-time mother to her son Daniel, three, and
> >20-month-old daughter Alex, while her husband Julian runs his own
> >consultancy.
> >
> >      She said: "I used to travel the world and barely saw my husband
> >because I was away five days a week. We wanted to start a family but I
was
> >having trouble getting pregnant, so I handed in my notice and it happened
> >immediately."
> >
> >      Four months after Alex was born, she worked part-time, but when she
> >became pregnant again, decided to give up her career for family
life. "My
> >mother ran a restaurant and although she was there for us when we were
> >young, she was at work a lot," Mrs Lovelock said.
> >
> >      "I knew I really wanted to be there all the time for my
children. I
> >had enjoyed my job but I didn't want to be a career woman who worked five
> >days a week, had a nanny and only saw her children at weekends.
> >
> >      "I really love my life now. I am the woman on our street who has
all
> >the other kids over for tea. I make my own bread and test it on the
> >children, and we do lots of things.
> >
> >      "I will probably go back to work at some point, but it
may be for a
> >charity rather than a very demanding job."
> >
> >      So can women have it all? "Maybe, but it's not what I want."
> >
> >      THE COST OF HAVING IT ALL
> >
> >      * According to the Kinsey Institute for research in reproduction,
> >gender and sex, the pressures on today's married women mean they have
less
> >sex than their 1950s counterparts, with just one in three making love to
> >their husbands more than twice a week.
> >
> >      * One in five women born in 1970 has suffered from depression and
> >anxiety in their thirties, twice the rate of those born in 1940, the
> >University of London has found.
> >
> >      * A Gallup poll in 1954 found that 98 per cent of people
disapproved
> >of single mothers; today only 38 per cent feel the same way.
> >
> >      * Two-thirds of women in 1954 repaired old shoes; now a similar
> >proportion simply throw them away.
> >
> >      * One social statistic that has remained unchanged between 1954 and
> >today is the proportion of men who claim to do most of the housework, 12
per
> >cent.
> >
> >      * One in 10 marriages entered into by teenage women in Great
Britain
> >during the late 1960s ended in separation within five years, compared
with
> >one in four that took place between 1985 and 1989.
>
>
>
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>
> "Ladies and gentlemen - let's have a round of applause for tonight's
player of the game - FRAN-CIS-CO SAN-N-N-N-TOS!
>     - Brian Anthony (P.A. announcer at Grizzlie Stadium), June 11, 2004
>
>
> "Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo."(The people
> hiss at me, but I am well satisfied with myself).
>
>     - Horace, the Roman poet
>
>
> Logical positivism, dominant in American and
> British universities, is suicidally bent upon
> establishing the impossibility of knowing any-
> thing.  (As Wyndham Lewis suggested in "Self
> Condemned", the neo-positivist pedant reduces
> himself to a mosquito, able to wound, nearly
> invulnerable to counter-assault - but only an
> insect, not a man).
>
>      - Russell Kirk, Enemies of the Permanent
>        Things




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