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- Afrochu, on 06/01/2009, -13/+226It's because for 40 years feminists have screamed at the top of their lungs that women should go out and have a career, without considering whether that would actually make the individual woman happier. It has gotten to the point where if a woman wants to just stay at home and raise the kids, she is looked down upon as a weakling and a failure, and the family is criticized for succumbing to "outdated male-dominated gender roles". I mean *****... just look at the language of the article. "It said the results appeared surprising given that modern women had been liberated from their traditional 1950s role of housewife." It clearly implies that if you are a housewife, you are a slave that needs to be liberated. Even the word 'housewife' has negative connotations now! It completely ignores the fact that a woman, if she chooses to, can be perfectly happy being a housewife. I find this to be a damn shame, because feminism in earlier decades genuinely helped women's lives. Movements should always be about choice, not conformity. Dear feminists: shut the ***** up and stop telling women what to do.
- kent1146, on 06/02/2009, -12/+111Not surprised. When has giving a woman what she wanted ever made her shut up and be happy?
- seandfeeney, on 06/02/2009, -13/+97well... it's back to the kitchen...
- drall.kj, on 06/02/2009, -12/+87Women are never happy.... just ask any married man.
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -10/+83Well, women wanted equal chance at a work life. Guess what, you get the ***** that goes along with it. You get to hate your boss, work ***** hours, get stuck in traffic, work with dumb asses, and spend your time dreaming about getting drunk on some beach while waiting for a ***** retard to finish his presentation on corporate ethics. You ***** wanted it - so shut up and be miserable like us men.
Or - go make me a ***** sandwich and shut the ***** up. You can't have it both ways. - plaguepony, on 06/02/2009, -21/+80Well lets face it. The Bitches are crazy.
- rancor01, on 06/02/2009, -9/+64I have found through years of experience that women, no matter their age or nationality, are most happy when complaining about something.
My mom complains about my brother and my dad. My wife complains about her friends, her work, the food at a restaurant, plots to TV shows, the cat, the weather, and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
The complaining - It never stops. - Elsewhere42, on 06/02/2009, -7/+61Hell, even women don't know what they want!
- zeppo, on 06/01/2009, -11/+63Maybe they are unhappy because we are in global depression. Northing to do with feminism at all.
- SexyGeekGirl, on 06/01/2009, -15/+54I think this part of the story is true
'Women may now feel more comfortable being honest about their true happiness and have thus deflated their previously inflated responses,' they said.
Also the definition of happiness has changed. We are wanting so much more but I am still very glad that we have worked towards so much in making great progress towards our lives. Go girls! - bitterbug, on 06/02/2009, -6/+40End women's suffrage! :P
- seltaeb4, on 06/02/2009, -7/+41We tried to warn you, silly girls.
- jmeskimen, on 06/02/2009, -2/+34They were obviously happier there...
- faceless323, on 06/02/2009, -6/+38Can I buy you a beer?
- gluesniffined, on 06/02/2009, -14/+45Let's see........
Lounging around the house all day on the couch while getting fat on bon-bon's, watching soap operas and having some man work his ass off and cater to your every whim; all while never having to perform any of your sexual wifely duties unless your husband 'earns it' or there is a special trade in exchange for (shoes, jewelry or other assorted trinkets)......or..........
Working your ass off at a dead end job with lousy pay, no appreciation and an ***** boss leaving no personal time left for anything else....decisions, decisions....... Hmmmmmmmm - BeShirtHappy, on 05/31/2009, -2/+33This study makes me unhappy. ;-)
- commenter01, on 06/02/2009, -5/+34And all this time I thought that saying "Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich" was making women unhappy...
- kalvinb, on 06/02/2009, -5/+33Well, would you rather work 9-5 5 days a week or spend an hour or two a day in the kitchen? I work 9-5 mon-fri and I'd rather be a stay at home dad if I could. But I'm the one with the highest earning ability so the wife gets to stay at home.
Oprah has turned a lot of women into victims by claiming that they're worth $100,000 a year because they're nannies, housemaids, chefs, etc.
Chefs work 12 hour days cooking for dozens or hundreds of people. A stay at home mom cooks one "big" meal a day for a few people. Most perfectly delicious meals take maybe an hour or less to make. Fathers are also nannies when they come home from work and on weekends. Fathers also help around the house. So should they tack on "pool boy" "plumber", "lawncare worker" etc to their "salary?" The house doesn't need to be cleaned every day. The lawn doesn't need 8 hours of attention every day. The cooking doesn't need 8 hours of attention every day. The kids should be getting a lot of time and attention from both parents. You can't just add a bunch of occupations together to get your "salary."
Women are miserable because they make themselves feel so put-upon without considering how hard the man works to make their life easier. Everything they do is oh so difficult and nothing the man does is good enough. Unfortunately most of those women would rather get a divorce than adjust their attitude.
Then they whine about not having enough money to pay people to do the jobs that the husband was doing. - Junior612, on 06/02/2009, -8/+36Maybe the kitchen wasn't that bad...
- Gloogle, on 06/02/2009, -1/+28What about a househusband?
- JinxCrow, on 06/02/2009, -9/+36Well women have filled out one type of role going back thousands of years if not hundreds of thousands. So the sudden change could be hard to take.
I don't see men and women as equal - how can they be? They're different on many levels. They're made to balance each other, once takes one role and the other the complimentary role. Generally speaking, us ladies did what we were given parts for - be a mother. Men went and hunted, we kept the domicile and both brought up the next generation. Extrovert vs. Introvert roles (Like our parts..hmmm). Now because of new sensitivities and focus on the individual it seems everyone's roles in society, as gender model, etc are changing.
I can understand a general unhappiness with the loss of a specifically designed role and the confusion of "what next?" - Like when someone loses a job they've had for years and having to do something else. - Bloodwine, on 06/02/2009, -1/+26I wonder how many women feel forced to enter the workforce and have a career because it is expected of them, and being a stay-at-home mom is, for some damn reason, looked down upon.
So instead of being shackled to the kitchen by men, they are now shackled to the office by women.
I support women being able to do what they desire, whether it be a career or family (it's hard to do both, and I think that is where a lot of their misery comes from). However, I don't think we should look down upon stay-at-home mothers, who devote their lives to focusing on their family and children. - Victawr, on 06/02/2009, -3/+27I'd be pretty pissed too if they kept bothering me with questions like this for 40 years.
- passedoutghost, on 06/02/2009, -4/+26Reminds me of this joke:
The Husband Store
A brand new store has just opened in New York City that sells Husbands. When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the instructions at the entrance:
"You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors and the value of the products increase as you ascend the flights. You may choose any item from a particular floor or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you CANNOT go back down except to exit the building!"
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.
The 1st floor sign reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs.
The 2nd floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
The 3rd floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely good looking.
"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the 4th floor and The sign reads: Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help with Housework.
"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!" Still, she goes to the 5th floor and The sign reads: Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have A Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the sign reads:
Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store. - chiefautoparts, on 06/02/2009, -9/+31I think women should be happy due to the fact that they have won. Proof - child support laws.
- Chompy, on 06/02/2009, -2/+23Don't forget to take those shoes off.
- OUSooner, on 06/02/2009, -6/+27I'm one of those guys who think that yes, women should have all the opportunities as men. However, I very much believe that a women with children should stay home with the kids. It has been the natural role of the female throughout human and animal history. It has shown us in studies time and time again that children with a parent who stays home are better off than those who have parents who work.
- carbonetc, on 06/02/2009, -6/+273 million issues of Cosmo are sold every month. That may have something to do with it.
- ScissorHand26, on 06/02/2009, -4/+25So should I assume you are female?
Because all you are doing right now is complaining. - scamper22, on 06/02/2009, -10/+31Whoever sold women on the idea that work was fun was a marketing genius.
Men work because we have to. Any work we like to do is work we could do at home or with a few buddies in the garage or computer lab. - inactive, on 06/02/2009, -0/+20Lazy comment.
- yeahhyeahyeah, on 06/02/2009, -7/+27Exactly, what we needed was gender equity, not gender equality. Feminism failed by forcing women to strive for even for things that men are born better suited for, instead of glorifying and expanding those things women are good at.
- jjesusfreak01, on 06/02/2009, -1/+21Women have put upon themselves the idea that they have to hold the traditional male and female roles. I think they have come to the backwards idea that equality means that everyone has to do the same thing. Equality is about having the same opportunities as others, not necessarily doing these things. There is nothing wrong with a woman having kids and raising a family, nor is there anything wrong with them having a job and foregoing the family. Thinking that one can do an amazing job at both of these things is setting unreasonable expectations, in my opinion...expectations that can lead to perceived failure regardless of how devoted they are.
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -5/+22But none of them are left wing loudmouthed psycho feminists - that was his point.
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -1/+18I am a man and I would love to be a housewife - husband, thingy...
OMG days of our Lives...
The average family can't survive on an average wage now. So the kids grow up parent-less, the parents work childless and the bank laughs at it all..
The price of everything has tripled yet wages have gone backwards.. - scubachef11, on 06/02/2009, -4/+20I just wanted to second that beer offer.
- DrHoliday, on 06/02/2009, -2/+18And here, now you're pregnant.
- JinxCrow, on 06/02/2009, -0/+16It's where all the food is!
- stack3r, on 06/02/2009, -5/+21Are you saying you hate your children, hate that you have a vehicle and then use the 24 -48hrs of pain caused by your choice to have children as an excuse to allow you to whinge?
What about your husband? the one that allows you to stay at home with your family (this is usually a good thing), eat till the cows come home and drive around in a paid for minivan while never having to experience having a greedy boss on your back every second of the day, only for then, your husband to come home to a cranky cow like you who whinges about looking after kids and being in a minivan all day and how bad child birth was, then hand the kids over to him so then he can have ZERO spare time to relax.
Lets not forget, you are probably part of the large group of "disadvantaged and hard lifed" housewives that don't care for sex that some how society ignores or blames the man for "wanting it to much" - MistrBrownstone, on 06/02/2009, -0/+14I think one of the worst moves our society has made is shifting the norm from the single income family (where one parent stays home, and raises the children) to the dual income family (where childcare is outsourced to someone with no personal interest in the child). It just seems to go against the whole point of being parent. I'll stop short of saying that the woman should be the parent to stay home, but if two people are going to have a child together, one of them should stay home.
- JinxCrow, on 06/02/2009, -1/+14Ask her why she does it.
That might shut her up for a bit as she contemplates her mindlessness.
(No seriously, it works!) - CK20XX, on 06/02/2009, -4/+17“Hi, I’m your Nostalgia Chick, and you know what time it is? It’s Gross Oversimplification Time. Let’s talk about feminism. What did we get from the first wave of feminism? The right to vote, among other things. What did we get from the second wave of feminism? The right to have sex indiscriminately, among other things. But wasn’t there a third wave...? A wave that was almost sort of a backlash to those first two waves? What did that wave get us... among other things?”
- The Nostalgia Chick
By the way, the answer is the movie known as “Spice World”. - ammundsen, on 06/02/2009, -2/+14I'd take it a step further. Children who are actively raised by a father are better off. In the agrarian days both parents worked on the family farm. A child would have contact with both parents, would be a contributor to the family, and learn useful skills. Also, before corpratization of the economy many families had their own business. Both the husband and wife could be involved at some level in the business. Again the children would contribute to the family while learning skills and being actively parented.
What I'm getting at is the wife staying at home while the husband goes off to be a cog in the corporate machine was not a good life. But they came up with an even worse solution: sending both parents off to be cogs. - tshawkins, on 06/02/2009, -3/+15If a man says something, and no woman hears him......
Is he still wrong? - GoKings, on 06/02/2009, -10/+21Women are never satisfied with anything. I'm not talking a drive for something better, but rather they always find something to complain about.
- dizmoz, on 06/02/2009, -2/+13No No No, they will turn it around on you and blame you for something. Or put you to work. Best is to just shut up and don't say anything. EVER.
- BlackJackJester, on 06/02/2009, -7/+18Why not as happy now? Maybe because of the incredibly higher stress rates among working folk. Housewives had considerably less stress to deal with, and now working women are subject to the same, or more (because they have to prove themselves or some *****) pressure than ever.
Feminists already won, and they're reaping the rewards. - Mike17102, on 06/02/2009, -7/+17We should get them back in the kitchen, making me pie.
- shwaa, on 06/02/2009, -4/+14+1 for eloquence.
- ethan406, on 06/02/2009, -2/+12How about all those men who just want to lounge around, but noooooo they have to get a job because they're MEN. And they have to be REAL men and provide for their family. Don't you feel sorry for them?
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