tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post3426716609825953783..comments2024-03-17T00:13:44.599-07:00Comments on Marty Nemko: The Beginning of MenMarty Nemkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14850388752934193821noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-76182429034918119982015-07-10T13:31:43.040-07:002015-07-10T13:31:43.040-07:00Americans.... constantly plugging things into boxe...Americans.... constantly plugging things into boxes. I was born in 1978 and for the majority of my life, political pundits, news personalities, people online and in basically every other form of media have POUNDED on the same 10 or so issues: abortion, gay rights, immigration, men's/women's issues.... It's 2015. Isn't time to let all this garbage go? To me, the obsession with continuing cycling through these same 10 issues is nothing more than the remnants of the Baby Boomer's obsession with an insidious form of political correctness that elides the average American's attempt to get at the truth of what is going on in this country - that the poor get poorer while the rich get richer, there are less and less jobs, the dollar is becoming devalued, we have lost our AAA credit rating. THESE things are important. Stupid battles over whether boys are better than girls and who is getting a fairer deal than the other is fodder for children on a schoolyard. We'd better grow up and elect people who are going to REALLY fix the collosal mess we are in or we are going to be in for it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-73600261162696941232013-08-06T16:12:12.274-07:002013-08-06T16:12:12.274-07:00It's unfortunate that the many articles you re...It's unfortunate that the many articles you refer to frame feminism as a zero sum game. I agree with most of your policy prescriptions because they support the same kinds of choices for men as for women. For example, why should a C-level employee be expected to work 60+ workweeks unless he wants to, in an absence of pressure? For that to realistically happen, we'd have to analyze such values as competition, status and family expectations. Both men's and women's mistake has been to frame these issues as ones that benefit only one sex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-47931716570112172112013-05-08T21:07:15.076-07:002013-05-08T21:07:15.076-07:00That about sums it up. I've talked with my so...That about sums it up. I've talked with my son about this in order to steel and prepare him. It may not have been necessary: he keeps the Navy's F-18s flying, and a pilot can't have the plane until my son signs his name on the bottom line.<br /><br />Incidentally, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional in it's very title (unequal protection.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-57689819813200396002011-04-09T06:20:24.687-07:002011-04-09T06:20:24.687-07:00Interesting and informative article. You realize y...Interesting and informative article. You realize you're taking on the big machine who want to manipulate the minds of the masses. That's why the article gets rejected or totally ignored. It combats the poison too effectively.<br />I am approaching the two month time limit after writing Senator Lautenberg about the overt discrimination towards divorced dads. It is an absolute disgrace that this "justice" system uses witchhunt techniques in this day and age. They create victims for profit.<br />Regardless, if he doesn't answer I'm writing another letter, and another, and another until he answers why he allows this corruption to go on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-67389533170192601022010-07-20T14:20:36.997-07:002010-07-20T14:20:36.997-07:00Hanna Rosin's article is a lament. I can't...Hanna Rosin's article is a <i>lament</i>. I can't believe you missed that. As for the father piece, I agree studies comparing apples to oranges are no good. I think two-gender households are ideal, even though you couldn't prove it from <i>my</i> experience.Maureen Nelsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-69362180049936037792010-06-30T10:26:10.519-07:002010-06-30T10:26:10.519-07:00How far can the need to give everything the femini...How far can the need to give everything the feminine touch go? Well, somebody at the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062903997.html" rel="nofollow">Washington Post</a> thinks we now have "our first female president."Jeffriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825446029146582339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-85004100933732462492010-06-25T17:10:36.444-07:002010-06-25T17:10:36.444-07:00Now wait a minute...how did you know about my vene...Now wait a minute...how did <i>you</i> know about my venereal disease?!?Joannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-7293118612583840242010-06-23T16:00:31.974-07:002010-06-23T16:00:31.974-07:00"The End of Men" actually symbolizes the..."The End of Men" actually symbolizes the end of intelligence at The Atlantic. How any magazine could publish such a profoundly idiotic article is beyond belief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-86669673012754503722010-06-23T08:28:40.062-07:002010-06-23T08:28:40.062-07:00You're not alone in your thinking. There are s...<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/20/warren.fatherhood/?hpt=C2" rel="nofollow">You're not alone</a> in your thinking. There are some people, <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/22/the-end-of-men-women-in-control-this-is-news/" rel="nofollow">including women</a>, who are critical of the Atlantic's articles.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its_not_the_end_of_men" rel="nofollow">One of the articles</a> points out, as you have, that people have been stating it's "the end of men" for years. Sometimes I wonder if it's less of a declaration and more of a wish.Jeffriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825446029146582339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-13236135067048299072010-06-21T11:33:43.165-07:002010-06-21T11:33:43.165-07:00I am disturbed by the trend of mothers of young bo...I am disturbed by the trend of mothers of young boys who seem terrified of the naturally aggressive, risk-taking, messy and sometimes chaotic bent some (if not most) young boys have. They seem determined to squelch it out of them. If they are successful, where will we get the next generation of fire fighters, search and rescue workers, EMTs, police officers, ect... and men for a host of other risky, dangerous jobs?ALPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17902185031359525209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-44323008595634918142010-06-21T10:14:39.529-07:002010-06-21T10:14:39.529-07:00Here is my letter to the Atlantic editors:
Imagin...Here is my letter to the Atlantic editors:<br /><br />Imagine the outrage if the cover had proclaimed "The End of Women", and the article asked, "Are Mothers Necessary?"<br /><br />The bad news for the Atlantic is that despite common perception, there’s nothing objectively essential about its contribution. The good news is, we’ve gotten used to it.Seraphimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03303412584693617377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-82933586380435527762010-06-20T11:10:28.470-07:002010-06-20T11:10:28.470-07:00I'm a woman, and since about high school, most...I'm a woman, and since about high school, most of my friends have been men. I can't explain why, but I just seem to relate to them better than I do to the average woman. Besides the many conveniences that I enjoy today, not to mention the freedom to enjoy them, men are responsible for providing me with friendship, discipline, and belief in myself (the latter two courtesy of my father).<br /><br />My father & I have definitely had our differences, and there have been times when I couldn't even talk to him. But more often than not, he has been the one, and sometimes the only one, to believe in me and my capabilities. He was the one, more than anybody else, to encourage me to educate myself. Though he provided me with a lot, he encouraged me to rely on myself first.<br /><br />I would be in a very different place today if not for my father and the other men in my life (the ones I have known and the ones I will never know but still make my life better). I would never want to know a life without men, and they deserve to be respected & honored as much as women do.Jeffriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825446029146582339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821345570811107481.post-46020747268667597342010-06-20T11:05:47.400-07:002010-06-20T11:05:47.400-07:00Well, I'm sure women would survive and even th...Well, I'm sure women would survive and even thrive if there never were (If humans evolved asexually, and there never were men, maybe humans wouldn't be woman, per se, but a trans gender of some sort), or all of a sudden men disappeared forever for some reason. Human life would just be different. I don't know about grass huts, there are plenty of women who could pull off the male-centric way of technological life we experience. Maybe it would have been on a smaller scale (if nothing more than the average height difference). And who says the industry and technology we experience today is any better than would have happened without men?<br /><br />OK, enough philosophizing. I agree that there should be equal treatment for both sexes. What I see working in a corporate office, is if you are female or minority and have <i>ANY</i> inkling of management talent, they will move you up the ladder as fast as they can (mostly to satisfy EEOC ratio objectives). I'm not saying all these women/minorities are bad, and in fact some are quite good, it's just that's it's out of proportion. And I personally have no desire to move up the ranks, so they are not my competition, but I have to work for these managers. For every tyrant (male) boss we've heard about in the past, there are just as many tyrant, moody, and possibly manic depressive female managers. Collaboration? From my experience, most female managers I've worked for are "by the book" almost like in the army or a government office. Male managers (in general) are a little more easy going and don't have to follow the book to the T, they just want the work to get done.<br /><br />To go along with getting the work done and the over-pushed collaboration theme, I agree that many of the successes in this country are from the "anti-social", nose to the grind stone, gritting the teeth, working 80 hours type of people who had a break through. Collaboration (again)? Nothing ever gets done. It's a bunch of meetings and trying to get everyone on board to create a mediocre piece of work (whatever the project is). I work on the execution side, and when all is said and done, it's the execution that actually gets it done. All the pondering and theorizing is basically just glorified guessing. You could guess and do almost as good a job. And I work in the world where there's also mathematical modeling, which is even more glorified guessing. To be truthful, it does work to a point, but what would happen if we fired all the modelers (saving money) and just used common sense. I wonder how worse off we'd be? Look how great the mathematical models worked that created the financial bubble that just burst! (And by the way most of the math modelers where I work are female Chinese, just to be fair).STnoreply@blogger.com