Comments on: A career woman’s response

By: Alex Fayle

Alex Fayle — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:34:50 +0000

I read the article in question and think that it was written for the shock value of it - Forbes and the writer now have so many hits and links and exposure that their recognition factor has gone through the roof.

A rational discussion about the pros and cons of a two-income family would have been greeted by the world at large, but a chauvinistic tirade against women daring to usurp men in the dominant role in the family? Wow! What great copy!

Of course I think the writer of the original article is a moron and obviously fears that he would be emasculated by a strong woman (so only wants weak ones in his life). To him, I'd say get over yourself buddy.

To the article itself, my response is "how about a open and honest discussion within the couple to determine division of labour and expectations for the family."

By: Bren

Bren — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:24:13 +0000

@Roger: I’m putting the author names at the top of their posts right now. Great suggestion!

By: Bren

Bren — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:23:25 +0000

Anon Coward: Yeah, I'm a man, but the author of the post is a woman. I let other folks post on the blog for a day, so that probably added to the confusion.

You still weren't paying attention, though. :-)

By: Roger Kondrat

Roger Kondrat — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:47:32 +0000

Well I have to say Slacker Manager this author is a great writer and obviously very intelligent. If she is interested I would be happy to help her start a blog e.g. give her tips, set up the service, etc.

All for free.

I liked it that much. It was an excellent read and insightful. I didn't read the original 'offending' article and to be honest I didn't need to, this post stood on its own.

I like that she discusses that inter-play between disenchanted women of yesteryears and todays 'modern' woman. As well she goes on to suggest that women now work and still maintain their traditional roles too. A friend of mine once said that a study was conducted that showed on average since feminism took hold women were now doing nearly twice as much work as before because they maintained nearly completely their roles as 'HouseWife' and now work 40 hours a week too.

Its a hard life being a woman, and I am damn glad I am not one. Besides that there can only be one boss and she (my partner) assures me it won't be me any time soon :)

Bren can you get the Authors names put at the bottom of these posts I think they deserve the recognition don't you?

Cheers, Roger

By: Anon coward

Anon coward — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:04:16 +0000

Holy sh*t! Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention – but I’ve had slacker manager in my newsreader for months and I always thought you were male. I think there is a couple of reasons for this – didn’t the picture in the header used to be a man?

Maybe it’s my internal stereotypes – there’s two that I can think of (1) men are manageers and (2) men are slackers.

By: gingertrout

gingertrout — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:08:05 +0000

There are two different things going on here. Your post reviews the issues at hand, but that's not my problem: it was the way the article was written.

The article did not provide an evenhanded review the pitfalls of a two-salary marriage, it suggested that the reader should not marry any woman with a college education earning over $30K because the male in the relationship would suffer. This too, from an author who previously wrote assessing pros and cons of wives vs prostitutes. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a discussion about this, but let's do it in a mature way.

I think there's a substantial difference between a fair discussion of burdens of working mothers and fathers on family life and knee-jerk sexism published by a reputable magazine.