Comments on: Really? More of this?

By: bad username

bad username — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:50:42 +0000

I thought the article was a parody of the other more earnest and intelligently subtle articles like the NYTimes front-page Sept 20 article, “Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path towards Motherhood.”

As a parody, the Forbes article was 100% brilliant, especially with the accompanying slideshow. I never imagined that it was supposed to be a serious article.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:23:52 +0000

Boing Boing is, as always, hilarious.

By: joshua m. neff

joshua m. neff — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:46:03 +0000

The guy who wrote that article also wrote a piece comparing wives to prostitutes. So, basically, he's a massive tool. What's distressing is that a mainstream magazine like Forbes would publish something by such a massive tool. A sure sign that we still have a long road to travel. Have you seen the posts about this on Boing Boing?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:28:36 +0000

Unfortunately, I DID read some of the comment threads at Forbes, until my eyes exploded and I had to quit out of self preservation.

By: walt crawford

walt crawford — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:58:32 +0000

Jane, feel free to sputter. Oh, and don’t read the comment thread, or you might do a lot worse than sputter.

Funny thing: When two people both work full time, they should both be doing some of the chores, ideally either roughly equal or each tending to the ones they’re good at. I don’t think there’s news here, except to people who really don’t see their partner as a partner. Which, apparently, includes a fair number of people–primarily ungrown-up men, sad to say.

I must say, reading the comments at Forbes reminded me of how generally thoughtful and reasonable the library online world is, at least by comparison.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:31:35 +0000

Jane, I think the article also may make women who feel like they can’t get everything done to best of their abilities feel guilty and feel like they shouldn’t ask their husbands to pitch in more – and this is so wrong. I also have angst – and I think that most people (men and women) do. Going to school and working full time takes up a great deal of my time – and I know there are times that my husband feels a bit slighted. Sometimes he is right and sometimes he isn’t. There has to be give and take. It takes two to mess things up – something that the author of the article tends to ignore completely.