Don't Marry Career Men
http://jennifersaylor.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/dont-marry-career-men/
"Via BoingBoing.net today, I found a forbes.com article [since taken down, but archived here] that is one of the most offensive things I’ve ever read in my life. I can’t believe that it found its way into a national publication in 2006. The point of it is that men shouldn’t marry “career women” (also called “career girl[s]” in the article) because marriage to a “career woman” makes the husband more likely to get divorced, less likely to have children, unhappy if his wife makes more than he does, more likely to “fall ill,” and consigned to live in a “dirtier” home.
There are some things not worth writing a rebuttal to, and this article is one of them. However, I was inspired by Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing to do something with it.
I pasted the whole thing to a Word document and then reversed all the gendered nouns and pronouns. Everything below is word-for-word from the article; I did absolutely nothing but switch gender.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold: Don’t Marry Career Men."
"Via BoingBoing.net today, I found a forbes.com article [since taken down, but archived here] that is one of the most offensive things I’ve ever read in my life. I can’t believe that it found its way into a national publication in 2006. The point of it is that men shouldn’t marry “career women” (also called “career girl[s]” in the article) because marriage to a “career woman” makes the husband more likely to get divorced, less likely to have children, unhappy if his wife makes more than he does, more likely to “fall ill,” and consigned to live in a “dirtier” home.
There are some things not worth writing a rebuttal to, and this article is one of them. However, I was inspired by Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing to do something with it.
I pasted the whole thing to a Word document and then reversed all the gendered nouns and pronouns. Everything below is word-for-word from the article; I did absolutely nothing but switch gender.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold: Don’t Marry Career Men."