tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post8870436612817769506..comments2024-01-30T02:02:02.972-05:00Comments on Ms.Marx: On Pop Culture: Study about how men benefit from marriage misses the markMs.Marxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319090803199238459noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post-18005732915262886862010-01-23T08:49:45.343-05:002010-01-23T08:49:45.343-05:00Joel, for the first 3 paragraphs I couldn't te...Joel, for the first 3 paragraphs I couldn't tell if you were joking or being sarcastic or something. You say that divorce benefits women and leaves men in shambles? Really? The poverty rates for single mothers is the highest of any group. Another study showed that after divorce, women experienced a 73% decline in their standard of living, while their former husbands experienced a 42% rise (Weitzman). I don't know how this study was conducted, but I hardly think that women benefit economically more than men from divorce.<br /><br />I don't think that it is hypocritical of women to expect a decent pay check and affordable daycare. Men have benefited from free childcare for years in the form of wives who were discouraged from working. And by that same argument, we could say that it is wrong for doctor's to expect a big paycheck and free health care... it just doesn't make sense to me. There are a lot of countries with national daycare systems (even the province of Quebec).<br /><br />And your past paragraph, that is called privilege. Those is dominant groups who have nothing to lose will protect their own interests, but if we all thought that way, if the dominant group protected our own interests at all costs, slavery would still be the norm. We need to learn to recognize our privilege, and to be angry that groups of people are still treated differently by virtue of their race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/ability/age/etc.Ms.Marxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319090803199238459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post-76746062567588561712010-01-23T00:36:20.585-05:002010-01-23T00:36:20.585-05:00You missed the boat entirely. Women get their mone...You missed the boat entirely. Women get their moneys from divorce (legitimately or otherwise.) It plays a huge factor in the negative attitude of the current family law system. It tends to favor women, and typically leaves a man in shambles (again, this may or may not be legit.)<br /><br /><br />Women need to move away from a system of blaming men and society, and focus on proving their net worth. Fair example: The asian-canadian community. We jailed them during WW2, even those who'd been patriotic canadians from birth. Have they continuously cried "wolf" since? No, they built a very successful can-do work attitude that is generally recognized.<br /><br />Another flaw is the cost of domesticated help and servicing. Let's face it, most folks already think daycare is stratospherically expensive - and it is - not that I'm suggesting absolving the parents of responsibility via "big brother". It's hypocritical of a household woman to expect to pay very little for daycare, yet expect a juicy check as a homecare provider, doing essentially the exact same thing.<br /><br />It boils down to one thing: money. The amount of wealth in the world is fixed. Anytime a particular group expects to receive a "pay out" for the differences due to the inequality they perceive, another group will lose an equal amount of money (plus of course, the middleman lining his pockets). Thus resulting in general resentment for the first group (which may be well-founded, in particular circumstances.)Joelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post-69139930283462237302010-01-22T15:01:30.223-05:002010-01-22T15:01:30.223-05:00To answer your own equality questions:
A) Because ...To answer your own equality questions:<br />A) Because the uneducated women are far less willing and/or able to take on the messy/dirty/but relatively high paying jobs available to the uneducated as are men. Yeah, you heard me. Uneducated chicks are often LAZY. <br /><br />B) What do you mean unpaid? Roof over head, food in belly? The only time a domestic housewife should be crying wolf is when the man perpetuates the stereotype by coming home and taking on a "Wife barefoot in the kitchen, and I MAKE ALL THE MONEY" attitude. I think more often than not, men are aware of the 'job' that the wife does at home, and both parties share equally in everything that the man's paid wage provides. The same goes vice versa for house-husbands. <br /><br />C) Ummm yeah I really have nothing to say here lest I come across as a racist and a biggot. <br /><br />D) No, arguments like these and studies like the one quoted by that radio station still happen because idiots in government provide grants to people/companies that perform these ultimately useless 'studies', which can be done by any 2nd year university students with access to the right statistics. God forbid the government turn down grant money to a proposed study using words like "Equity, Economy, & Gender". <br /><br />E) Because that's just a given. Also, imagine if EVERYONE in a first world country and spent the time to dwell on the fact that their own poor little life is still 100x better than someone in say, Gee, I don't know, Haiti? We'd all be depressed and unproductive if people began thinking about a little thing called REALITY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com