Don’t Marry a Career Woman

[jmm]

Don’t Marry a Career Woman

MISOGYNY IS FUN! On August 22, Forbes executive editor Michael Noer finally went and fucked himself right off the edge of the Cliff of Decency with a totally ricockulous, calculated attempt to drive web traffic to Forbes.com, entitled “Don’t Marry a Career Woman.”

It was so egregious, the Farm had trouble hyperbolizing it: “Guys: A word of advice,” Noer wrote. “Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones

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"A 2001 study found that having a wife who works less than 40 hours a week has no impact on your health, but having a wife who works more than 40 hours a week has "substantial, statistically significant, negative effects on changes in her husband’s health over that time span." The author of another study summarizes that "wives working longer hours do not have adequate time to monitor their husband’s health and healthy behavior, to manage their husband’s emotional well-being or buffer his workplace stress."

The next day, the story was yanked from the site, only to reappear soon after, repackaged as a “debate,” complete with a flying-poop-stained reader forum, and missing the references and slideshow. But we were undeterred, and started lathering up a few future story ideas for Noer—you know, make a proper series of it—and invited our blog readers to join in. Here’s a smattering:


“Research Proves Vigorously Beating Your Wife Burns 15% More Calories Than Spinning”

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http://www.weeklydig.com/news_opinions/articles/media_farm4

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. That article was atrocious

The Forbes editor issued an apology to offended readers because of it. I mean, duh! Why would a financial magazine, which you could safely assume has many 'career women' readers be so dumb? Sexism overrides common sense once again. :eyes:

[ismnotwasm]

2. I read that piece of shit

I despise inflammatory manipulative writing like that. It didn't even make sense. It was disgustingly insulting to women, but it also was condescending and insulting to men. I do doubt most men realized they were basically being called buffoons who couldn't handle life. Too much patriarchal pampering.


What you've posted here is even more horrid in a way.

Domestic violence and racism are funny, evidently. Ha ha. Oh, yeah I know "Lighten up":sarcasm:

[bliss_eternal]

3. Eeeuuuwww....

:puke:

:wtf:

[geniph]

4. Career women "can't adequately monitor their husbands' health"?

Am I supposed to be doing that? Damn, I missed that in the manual! I thought I was his wife, not his fucking mommy or his nursemaid. He's an adult. He's responsible for monitoring his own health - just as I am for my own. Yes, we both nag each other a little about taking proper care of ourselves - but it's not like I make his doctors' appointments for him, or monitor whether or not he gets his colonoscopy. He nags me a little about being dilatory about scheduling my mammograms and Pap smears, but he's not my nursemaid, either.

I don't know, the idea of being responsible for "monitoring" my husband makes me feel more like a mommy than a wife. Ick. Just - ick. It's too much like women who schedule their husbands' haircuts and buy all their underwear. Are they married to adults, or some kind of overgrown infants?

(My ex-husband actually seemed to think marriage should be conducted that way - that I should be scheduling his dental appointments, telling him when and how to cut his hair, buying him socks, picking out his outfits. There's a reason he's an EX-husband. Nice guy, but he seemed to want a mommy, not a partner.)

(Oh, and I'd never for a second tolerate a man controlling MY life in that manner - picking out my outfits, telling me how to get my hair cut, scheduling medical appointments - certainly, I consider my husband's input on matters of appearance, but ultimately how I look is only my own business. And it works the same for men.)