tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3194092658610503291..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: "Deeply Held Gender Stereotypes"Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4536864843211246112015-02-09T07:36:58.820-08:002015-02-09T07:36:58.820-08:00They certainly embody those 'gender stereotype...They certainly embody those 'gender stereotypes' by constantly nagging about stupid stuff. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10650352253368058892015-02-09T07:15:23.290-08:002015-02-09T07:15:23.290-08:00The fact is that women are making the choices that...The fact is that women are making the choices that best meet their needs. Contrary to what the Sandberg's, et al say, Women are going into fields that give them the freedom to do as they please. It is a success that feminists should tout, but cannot because they have become so radical that they would dictate what lives both women and men would choose. Radicals can never accept success because it does away with their reason to have POWER.<br />As H.L. Mencken once stated, "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59638471816360927922015-02-08T20:34:24.207-08:002015-02-08T20:34:24.207-08:00Remember "Chore Girl" scrubber pads?
No...Remember "Chore Girl" scrubber pads?<br /><br />Now called "Chore Boy"Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28587673225098444812015-02-08T18:58:31.419-08:002015-02-08T18:58:31.419-08:00In theory, theory is just like practice. In pract...In theory, theory is just like practice. In practice, theory just doesn't match up.<br /><br />Those with great plans or suggestions for all of us never realize that that's not what WE want, that it won't work for many of us for some reason or other, and their plans/suggestions require preconditions that just don't exist universally.<br /><br />Life is unfair. Reality does not respond to wishes and hopes and grand plans. Part of it is the perversity of inanimate objects, and the rest is the objections of the animate.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-11174800391152825502015-02-08T11:34:30.187-08:002015-02-08T11:34:30.187-08:00"Some serious theorists, in their war against..."Some serious theorists, in their war against the nuclear family, believe that children should be brought up by a village or in a commune or in daycare."<br /><br />That's why they're called "theorists." The only thing that makes them "serious theorists" is that they're ideological, humorless and in the full depth of fantasy. And they want you to jump on the roller coaster with them. Fun.<br /><br />What are the odds Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant were raised in a nuclear family? Pretty good chance, methinks.<br /><br />Villages and communes sound romantic while one is in the university bubble. Then we have to forsake the fancies of Hobbits, Wizards, Christian Greys, John Galts, Hope & Change, and The Inconvenient Truth so we might grow up and live a healthy, well-adjusted lives.. where we face work, taxes and the joy of the nuclear family as we move through it all. This just in: that's a Facebook-free, real life. Where we bond with people, not pretend to connect with pixels on a glowing box.<br /><br />Being a C-level executive may be the goal of many smart, driven young people, but the pursuit comes at a cost... believe me, at great cost. And most people are not willing to do what it takes to get there. It sounds great early-on, but it is a slog of long hours, political intrigue and demanding leadership development. <br /><br />On top of such C-level dreams, you put the biological yearnings to HAVE a nuclear family, add in the distance most careers demand you travel from family roots, the demands that children and aging parents put on one at middle age, the growing oppression of taxes to (temporarily) assuage insatiable government needs, the cost of nannies, etc., etc. <br /><br />I asset the modern scourge isn't time, possibilities or material fulfillment. It's loneliness. <br /><br />You begin see why a traditional husband and wife might look at each other and sacrifice their most dearly-held desires for the good of their progeny... in their nuclear family. Now such admonishments of reality that Sam L. mentions become choice points. Now we're talking about value. Now we reflect on the costs of a personal goal. Most good, moral, adjusted people who are wise and stand for something higher than themselves won't settle... they'll choose. That's life: a series of choices. <br /><br />Sheryl Sandberg may think she's got everything figured out for the rest of us, but there are those who still believe that enduring contribution and fulfillment demand that we sacrifice our material dreams, playing for something higher in the end, when all is said and done. My experience of Sandberg-like people is nothing is ever enough, no one is giving enough to the cause, no one is working as hard as she/he is. Life is a battle against slackers. And we "slackers" have a choice not to play that game. I wonder if Sandberg feels she has the same choices... if she can get off the hamster wheel<br /><br />And Stuart, you mentioned later that this is all about the class struggle. Of course. Such people need to create enemies without so they don't have to battle the enemy within. That's what all Leftist ideology is about: the imaginary, self-perpetuating struggle that is based on "inevitable" outcomes that other people have to pay for. <br /><br />Not everyone can be the COO of Facebook. And not everyone wants to be. And why isn't Sandberg the CEO of Facebook? She must be a slacker, or at least unwilling to "do whatever it takes" to fight the patriarchy. It must all be part of a conspiracy. Isn't it hilarious she continues to work at a place where she'll always live in the shadow of the company's male founder, no matter how far she rises, no matter how much she "leans in"? Sad.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62657210588500120902015-02-08T11:23:19.097-08:002015-02-08T11:23:19.097-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12334676814194202272015-02-08T10:26:19.074-08:002015-02-08T10:26:19.074-08:00A stereotype exists because it is a shorthand desc...A stereotype exists because it is a shorthand description of reality. Never going to be a close approximation of reality, but as the old saying goes, "close enough for government work". Exceptions will abound. As another old saying goes, "the race is not always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet."<br /><br />For those fighting against reality, my bet is on reality.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com