"Don't Marry Career Women"

[sff_corgi_lj]

American misogyny rears its ugly head in the cultural petri dish created for it: Forbes magazine recently published the above-titled article by some... person... named 'Michael Noer, an executive editor and writer for Forbes.com', along with an earlier thoughtful piece by him:

..."The Economics of Prostitution," in which he compared "wives" to "whores" and wrote that "the implication remains that wives and whores are -- if not exactly like Coke and Pepsi -- something akin to champagne and beer. The same sort of thing."

Forbes pulled "Don't Marry Career Women" for a couple of days, according to the Salon article from which I quote ("Unhappily ever after"), and replaced it with "Careers and Marriage", which had a counterpoint written to the first piece.

Here's some more tidbits from the Salon article, quoting Noer's:

An accompanying slide show listed the "Nine Reasons to Steer Clear of Career Women," starting with the news that a professionally successful woman won't want to marry you -- "you" being Noer's male reader; he didn't bother to pretend that he might have any female eyes skimming his work -- because high-achieving women "search less intensively for a match," and "have higher standards for an acceptable match than women who work less and earn less."

...According to Noer, working women stray when a wife ventures outside the home, because a job increases the chances that "[she'll] meet someone [she] likes more than you." That surely doesn't sound like a stretch in this case.

..."Your house will be dirtier," since studies show that a woman who makes more than $15 an hour "will do 1.9 hours less house work a week."

And wait until you read why the husband of a 'career girl' is more likely to fall ill. You'll think you're in a time warp.

There's a reference on the first page to a Caitlin Flanagan -- I had to look her up, as thankfully I'd never heard of her. Formerly of The Atlantic, MS. Flanagan is apparently the kind of person who says writing isn't a real job so she can pretend she's not a working mother and remain piously self-righteous and self-justifying. Ms. discusses her apparently non-professional writings, for which she's getting paid lots of money to be not-working, at more length in the linked article.

What the bleep is going ON?

Comments

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

I think I spot some Freudian-type issues there. Srsly.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but an a$$hole is always an a$$hole?
I got *my* career woman, and still feel damned glad [& lucky] to do so- 32 years on.
And now I know I needn't waste time reading Forbes. Srsly.
8>)

[zahdi.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

Sometimes.

"a$$holes" (I prefer the version with s', but ok ;) are made, not born. Whether that justifies them or not, it is always the case.

Reading these lines: he didn't bother to pretend that he might have any female eyes skimming his work -- because high-achieving women "search less intensively for a match," and "have higher standards for an acceptable match than women who work less and earn less."

..."Your house will be dirtier," since studies show that a woman...

reeked of emotional issues. This, especially:

...According to Noer, working women stray when a wife ventures outside the home, because a job increases the chances that "[she'll] meet someone [she] likes more than you."

sent off some instant alarm bells of "Mommy Issues."

Don't mistake me; I don't look for things where they don't live. I enjoy pegging a guy (or gal) as "simply an a$$" just as much as the next person, it's fun. But, sometimes people say and do things that are practically like screaming, "I have problems!" or "I was hurt at some point!" or "I don't believe in faeries!" *lol* or what have you, and it's hardly an easy thing to ignore screaming like that ^_^.

Sorry to go into the exposition like that *lol.*

Good for you, 32 years is nice!