"Why can't girls have it all?"

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-02-28 23:38

Essay here. Excerpt:

'We know a lot about how to create life in laboratories, but very little about the feelings that go with having kids. In our bid for complete equality, women have denied that it's a transforming experience: rather, we've sidelined that, along with other "feminine" feelings, as being beneath intelligent people.
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I'd once have been embarrassed at acknowledging motherhood as pivotal in life, but life changes you. Even clever people struggle with having it all, and after 40 years the world of action is still geared toward men and single women, despite the rhetoric: the odds are still stacked against mothers.

To prove my point, a new woman politician is about to be sworn in as a Labour MP. Louisa Wall is a former champion netballer and rugby player, Maori, bright and personable, just five years younger than Mrs Rich – and gay. For her there won't be heart-wrenching crying in the night, conflicted loyalties, the guilt of saying goodbye to small children. She can have the best of one world – which is fine – but we persist in claiming that women can realistically hope for two.'

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We know a lot about how to create life in laboratories

At last women have begun to realize that the time when they will be replaced in the reproduction cycle by Artificial Womb is approaching even faster than anyone could estimate. At last they have began to worry about it, but it's too late. And there is nothing here to worry about. It's only good for women if they at last will be freed from performing animal functions of a mindless walking incubator. Good for women, good for newborn children, good for the whole society.

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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Fri, 2008-02-29 22:08

Too good to be true, I thought. I mean, in a stranger-than-fiction way. I get no joy out of such nonsense as this. But despite years of seeing it on the news, I am still utterly confounded when I hear of stuff like this. Goes to show how powerful myopia can be. But I Googled and yes, here we go:

http://www.newser.com/story/19822.html

"“Some of the girls are incredibly violent these days,” one 16-year-old boy said. “They're tougher than us." Banlieu girls say the fighting isn't about race as much as turf—and, more importantly, boys. One fight "began because one of the Noisiel girls started hanging around the boys in Meaux,” one girl said. But les filles dangereuses dressed nicely and spoke sweetly when meeting with a Times reporter."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3419918.ece

"“They were fighting like the toughest of boys,” a policewoman who saw the confrontation this month said. “They had knives, screwdrivers, sticks and teargas and they were really going for each other. There must have been about 100 of them - some taking part and some there as spectators. It was quite frightening and if we hadn't intervened quickly, it would have ended in a bloodbath.”
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When The Times met some of the girls last week, they were revealed as ordinary adolescents brought up on multi-ethnic housing estates where violence has become the norm. They dress with style, use make-up, talk in sweet tones - and think that teargas and kitchen knives are appropriate for settling a teenage dispute over boys."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/New_French_revolution_Girl_gangs_battle_over_boys/articleshow/2814103.cms

" "We quite often have to deal with girls' violence these days," said the policewoman. "But it's usually four of five of them having a punch-up. I've never seen a pitched battle between gangs of girls like that before, although I'm not completely surprised because they all seem to want to imitate the boys these days. They swear and spit and are really aggressive."

"...imitate the boys..." But will the boys now imitate the girls, too, or get even more violent in response to such taunts as "Even the girls fight better than you guys!"

Just utterly amazing. I am so glad I don't live in a large city these days.

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Submitted by mcc99 on Fri, 2008-02-29 23:31

I disagree with the article. I believe that women can have a career and a family, but obviously, they can't do so while single. However, married women could "have it all". If both parents play an equal role in raising the children, then both could work as well.

However, I do believe that men are generally better providers, and women are generally better nurturers (Of course, I'm excluding the murderous mothers we always hear about, in this statement). Both genders are good at both, but each is more apt at one or the other. So, I agree with that part of the article.

Basically, women need to realize that children with two parents usually go further in life, and are happier. If you would sacrifice your child's own happiness just to spite men, that redefines selfishness.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2008-03-02 03:45