Society wrote:
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> news:1109292767.375878.251280{at}g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Carol Ann in her clumsy "Hyerdahl disguise barked...
> >>
> >> [Women today seem [...]
>
> "Seem".  That's the hyer-liar's code word
> for tipping her reader off that she's about
> to begin hallucinating.
>
> And so she did!
>
> 

Hello Society!

Well, not just her.  A lot of her fellow "yaya sisters"
are also hallucinating.  We can't blame them because,
for a very short time, the hallucination was real.

> > Career chicks "sweeping men" off their tootsies
> > and providing us a home, shelter, a feed and sex?
>
> Heh heh, connor_a, now THAT would require
> women to give up their privilege of having three
> socially acceptable options in married life
> compared to men's one and only option.
>
> Today's reality is that women have more
> socially acceptable options than do men:
>
>    She can work full time.
>    She can stay at home full time.
>    She can work part time and stay at home part time.
>
> His socially acceptable options are:
>
>    He can work full time.
>
> (After Warren Farrell in his 1986 book
>  _Why Men Are The Way They Are_.)

Yes, it did SEEM like this for a while, didn't it?

And in many ways, it's still largely true.  But now it's
increasingly becoming a lottery (or at least a scratch-it).
Some women are lucky and get a great fun job as Parg
dreams OR some others get to marry a rich doctor
and "sacrifice" by playing tennis all day.

But the reality is that for most women, the "choice"
is basically to work as a corporate droid and come
home and work their butt off afterwards to look
after the kids IF THEY'RE LUCKY!  If they're not
lucky, they don't get the kids or they wind up
struggling to get by.

"Germany has much better healthcare than the US" --
women's reproductive rights protestor, DC 2004

For many young men, it is a time to double dip.
Some of them are arrogant bastards, quite frankly.
They can "shack up" and lots of them don't want
to marry or have kids even as young women are
now flooded with Bridget Jones' propoganda threatening
them with spinsterhood.

> > I'd like to see reverse gender roles under
> > feminist policy, let us men "feel" the same
> > "oppression" women have felt. ;p-)
>
> Ha ha, connor_a, you're just stringing Carol Ann
> along by pretending that her feminism is about
> seeking equality between men and women
> rather than shamelessly grabbing even more
> privileges for women.  ;-)

Not just "women" but certain women: double-dippers,
single mothers, divorced SAH moms, etc.  Basically,
women who are giving men a raw deal.

But even most of these women aren't all that privileged.
Most wind up working as pizza store clerks, at best,
or fighting for that $300 buck per month mommy
support check for their bastard child.  On the
other end, seemingly privileged women such as
"Charlotte" in Sex and the City wail about the lack
of chivalrous men.  I know, I dated 'em!

My question for you, Society, is where do we go from
here?  Do you believe an egalitarian society is
possible knowing as we do now that women cannot
handle equality?

regards,
Mark Sobolewski

PS: When are you going to visit us here in DC?   I need
someone to help visit the CATO institute!



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