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Fox News ran a segment entitled You Do Need A Husband! on Sunday. Their guest, founder of the site Women for Men Suzanne Venker, was on to argue that women are trying too hard to reduce their reliance on men. Her appearance followed up on her article Why women still need husbands, published Friday on Foxs website.
In the piece, Venker argues that women wont find fulfillment trying to balancing a relationship and family with full-time work. Financial independence is a great thing, she writes, but you cant take your paycheck to bed with you. And theres nothing empowering about being beholden to an employer when what you really want is to have a baby. She uses this opinion to advocate for women having less of a role in the workforce, and letting men be the breadwinners. Unlike women, Venker writes, a mans identity is inextricably linked to his paycheck.
During the segment, hosts Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson lavished praise on the piece, thanking Venker for writing it and saying Im confused why this controversial. But Fox correspondent Anna Kooiman seemed a little more skeptical of Venkers argument, pointing out that, some critics have said its a little bit too broad to say men are this way and women are that way.
Kooiman then got personal with Venker, asking her for some words of wisdom:
KOOIMAN: I fit into that category perfectly. Im single. Im 29 years old. Im very career-oriented. What is your advice in just a couple sentences?
VENKER: My advice is, as the years go on and you find that you want, if you do, to get married and settle down, to understand time is going to be your greatest enemy. Not your husband, not men, not the government, not your employers. Its time, theres just not enough time in the day to do everything. So if you learn to embrace that side of yourself that isnt about work in other words, the nurturing side, the motherhood, all of that its okay to let your husband bring home that full-time income so you can have more of a balanced life. And we should really be thanking men for this, not saying theyre in our way or not doing enough.
Venker has previously argued that, as women become major breadwinners and stop acting like traditional women, they are becoming increasingly more annoying and less marriageable to men.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/12/08/3035761/need-husband/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Archae
(46,345 posts)Cousin to Andrew.
Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?
treestar
(82,383 posts)a lot.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)catbyte
(34,447 posts)Yeah, we all should be breeders, waiting for a man to take care of us. Shit, of my 4 best friends, 3 of them are the ones employed, their husbands parttimers or unemployed. Who cares?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)even if... she were correct, bear with me for a second... in today's economy, thanks to trickle down, you need TWO incomes to make it in the middle class.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)or a guy with inherited wealth. Diamonds are a girl's best friend, ya know.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but I love my husband dearly.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)Wound up raising 4 kids by myself and bought my own damned diamond.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)married and I wanted him to have it for his wife's engagement/wedding ring. I love that it is there, redesigned, on her finger today and I am so proud and happy that he did that. They are happy and they have the most beautiful baby son!
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Tic toc Venker! Time is looking over your shoulder! SO why is Venker working? Is she, oh Idunno, maybe like her auntie - a huge pile of hypocrite?
There ALWAYS has to be an enemy and a war against SOMETHING with these idiots! I think they LOVE war!
treestar
(82,383 posts)And not have that subject to anyone else's whims. Well, except for sexist bosses.
Enough of what men want! So some of them don't want women to be breadwinners? That's "annoying?" too bad!
TexasTowelie
(112,417 posts)she certainly has become less marriageable to this particular man. I am more than an ATM and take issue with the sexism of that remark.
She is wrong on so many levels.
Squinch
(51,004 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)every single moment of the day and of course, white men are delighted by the message.
Squinch
(51,004 posts)falling into "roles" someone else prescribes for them.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Squinch
(51,004 posts)... uh... crazy conservatism hell.
But I do notice that Ms. Schlafly Junior seems to have a job - which includes telling others not to have jobs...... Hmmmmmmm......
shenmue
(38,506 posts)With their shitty attitudes. Why they don't all have horns and carry pitchforks at Fox is beyond me.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)"they are becoming increasingly more annoying and less marriageable to men"
Meaning, more self reliant and less marriageable to men that think they are the head of the household and layers of the law in said household. I'd say he's right to be concerned about that if he ever saw a woman's role as not part of any of that. Running a successful household and raising children requires give and take.
If you think you run the household and lay down the law, you had better be ready for a very ugly marriage and divorce. That means one of you can't give and take, is domineering and you need some marriage/couples counseling.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)You haven't worked in 5+ years and no longer have a current resume, nobody will hire you either, so you can put food on the table when HE can't? Of course, that will NEVER, EVER happen. Right.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Squinch
(51,004 posts)women whose husbands leave them after the women haven't worked in years, and consequently have no way to feed themselves or their children.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Ann really needs that sort of "advice."