What do you think of this Facebook Post about career women?

storffish · 2018-12-24T02:43:31+00:00

for someone with such a full and busy life she sure has a lot of time to maintain her facebook page. typical bored woman.

planejane · 2018-12-24T03:20:10+00:00

My thoughts are that she is basically comparing a Martha Stewart-esque SAHM waifu to a caricature of Condi Rice. And that there are loads of SAHMs who shovel McDonald's into their children's faces so they will have more time to scroll Facebook on their phones, and that one of the best home bakers and most involved mothers I have ever known in all my life is a high-earning lawyer who lives in Northern California.

And that I'm a HIGH-POWERED CAREER WOMAN who spends a ton of time with her kids, is an excellent cook, and who doesn't have a Facebook account at all. I see I'm not missing anything at all.

Edit: Oh, and ha ha ha ha ha!

“The majority of women can’t do it all. I sure couldn’t,”

I believe Red Pill refers to this as solipsism. Just because she can't manage it certainly doesn't mean that the vast majority of women find it difficult to come home, put a chicken in the oven, help the kids do their homework while it roasts, and then hang out with the family for a few hours before bed. Unless she was Australia's Minister of Defense of something, if I was her husband, I'd be pretty worried about her inability to deal with the GRITTY REALITY of ADULT LIFE in a FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY.

TangerineDream116 · 2018-12-24T01:56:23+00:00

She did say in one of her comments (if I remember correctly) that it's based on her own personal experience. My own experience has been similar. If someone else's experience is the opposite, rock on. Why get offended if it's great and working out for you?

[deleted] · 2018-12-24T02:06:56+00:00

Both career women and full tIme SAHM are rare.

poppy_blu · 2018-12-24T07:09:13+00:00

No career woman cares what some bible thumping twit who can’t hold down a job but has hours and hours to fuck around on FB thinks of her.

Op you can do better than this.

[deleted] · 2018-12-24T02:10:04+00:00

I think her posts about working mothers are probably true in many cases. Obviously they will piss people off. It does piss me off a little, but mainly because it seems to imply that it's a choice that every woman has. Women dont have that choice anymore.

Also, it is obviously missing out on balance, and would be easy to take down.

Has an interesting social life - Spends all day watching kids tv shows.

Is intellectually stimulated at work - Cleans and cooks all day every day.

Has financial independence which allows her equal input on major decisions - has no financial input so is at the behest of her husband

etc.

HammockSwingin · 2018-12-24T02:07:55+00:00

What do you think of the facebook post?

I think as a religious woman it makes sense. It's not entirely wrong. However I think her point comes from the children's point of view. There are two parents that relieve the burden when both parents work. The kids may be getting all of the good things from both parents. To a woman like her in her situation she doesn't consider this.

Have you ever come across someone with similar views?

No one talks about these things IRL anymore. Everyone is accepting of each person choice one way or another and keep their opinions to themselves.

Do you think career women are discriminated against when it comes to dating?

No. Everyone wants something different. In this day and age both parents have to work to provide for their family financially in most cases.

tiposk · 2018-12-24T03:03:12+00:00

My issue with this kind of posts is that they argue against women having careers while ignoring the fact that everything that applies to a career woman also applies to a career man. Anyone who spends long ours at the office is potentially sacrificing their sex life and free time with their children. This is irrelevant of gender. She's not arguing for focusing on family life for the sake of happiness, otherwise she'd encourage men to do the same. She's arguing for focusing on family life because that's what women should do according to the Bible. If being a SAHM is working for her, then great, but don't others to agree with you if their priorities are different. I'm an atheist an I don't really care about applying biblical standards to my life.

killallthenarcs · 2018-12-24T03:43:25+00:00

Most wage earners will never have enough money to free up another adult with kids to be relaxed and happy. Even in the past, except for a few rare economically expansive period of time in particular locations, most men didn't have enough money for that. The working class and the lower middle class to middle middle class have always been pressed for time and money.

Being a stay at home on a very tight budget can be a grim life. I think it says something that the majority of women who do it nowadays are either highly religious or they are not particularly adept human beings and are looking for any niche to hide in no matter how grim... for example the cliched "dependapotomus" who married a military man to get a role in life. Being a stay at home is something you do if you've married a rich man and aren't proactively keen on work of any sort, or you can't manage paid employment at the best of times, or if you've been promised pie in the sky when you die and dammit you will put on a good face about the things you do to chase that pie.

cxj · 2018-12-24T06:26:42+00:00

This Facebook reshare is a grade A shit post and blatant clickbait/outrage porn.

happywander11 · 2018-12-24T08:00:47+00:00

it’s so cute how she wrote it on a fkn page lol. also I obviously completely disagree. poor lady. I genuinely feel bad for her

think about it. she is trying to validate her life. most people are beginning to care about career women. she probably feels oddly left out

I don’t know. i’d be pissed but I really don’t care about her opinion

goatismycopilot · 2018-12-24T13:18:55+00:00

The one thing the OP does not quite grasp is that at least in the US it is absolutely the task of religion to push your agenda forward especially if you are any kind of evangelical which I will bet this woman is. She posted it to virtue signal with her other friends who think exactly the same as herand to slap at anybody she knows who does not adhere. I work with a number of young women who work part time and acccording to them the meanest school moms are all the ones who are who stay at home full time. Also this idea that working moms do not cook is completely baffling to me.

CamoWoobie10 · 2018-12-24T01:51:00+00:00

I would take the one on the right all day long

LeaneGenova · 2018-12-24T02:54:24+00:00

It's a post about SAHMs. Everything on the right is just unrealistic

peterlongc · 2018-12-24T05:34:44+00:00

why do people get so offended by opinion's like these... this is one person's opinion after all.

I think many people have never taken a moment to reflect on why they are defensive; there's a lot to learn if you stop to think about the criticisms that you are most anxious to renounce

it's true: you can't have everything. make your choice and deal with it

Barely-moral · 2018-12-24T08:20:06+00:00

Lets assume the woman in question atually puts the effort to do things right. (Because a woman can suck as a partner and as a mother even if she is a SAHM)

Now, energy and time are limited. Any moment not spent in X makes you worse at X. X can be anything, a career, being a mother, being a partner etc.

A woman has to decide how to balance that and her potential partners will see if they find her balance acceptable.

I know that I would never date a career woman. A woman that puts that many hours into studying/working does not have the time and energy to be a good partner to me.

Unconfidence · 2018-12-24T03:28:39+00:00

It's almost like children ruin everything.

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i_have_a_semicolon · 2018-12-24T04:17:43+00:00

I think career women need to scale it down and be more like the sahm, they perfectly can be. Ive seen it happen. Anyway yeah I think it's wrong but no career women aren't less desirable since many people don't end up neglecting their whole home life.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2018-12-24T10:23:44+00:00

Facebook is cancer and it has nothing worthwhile on it, so fuck it.

That said, parenting is not an easy, frivolous, negligible task. It is tough, it requires time and effort. It is exceptionally hard for one person to both have a high-powered career and raise children.

Does this mean career women should never breed? Of course not! But the reality is you may need to do one of the following things:

Have domestic help at home, which costs money.
Achieve a better work-life balance, which reduces salary.
Have a husband who's either a full-time dad or is able to have flexibility in work hours alongside your own flexible work hours.

Because no, you aren't limitless, your vagina does not make you Wonder Woman, and you do in fact need to realize that "having it all" is exceptionally fucking difficult. Only a small number of wealthy, educated women achieve it. Be practical and realistic. You may only be able to be a part-time parent and part-time careerist. Since you aren't an octopus and you only have two arms you may need to look at partners who can help you on both fronts or even be a stay-at-home dad. Or maybe even look at an Extended Family model rather than a nuclear family.

But "having it all" is out of reach for the majority.

[deleted] · 2018-12-24T12:53:56+00:00

are they assuming that men don't know how to cook? they think that after both parties come home after a full day only the woman gets domestic duty?

gee. never heard that one before.

somehow, my husband and i manage to make home cooked food for our family after both working a full day. amazing what can happen when a marriage has two fully functioning adults.

a-WaltzingMatilda · 2018-12-24T13:01:36+00:00

It is possible to have a successful career while working 8 hours or less a day, 40 hours a week or less and then still having the other 128 hours in a week to raise children.

Sure, you’re not gonna be a Fortune 500 CEO but that’s such a ridiculous yardstick for measuring success.

I don’t see why it’s always presented as a binary opposition, either one or the other.

And I’m freaking MGTOW.

despisedlove2 · 2018-12-24T15:00:19+00:00

This used to be common sense advice to women. Setting aside religion, her views, etc., fact remains that for two equally well adjusted women, the stay at home mom is going to be able to take far better care of her family, is less likely to divorce her husband, is likely to end up with more kids who are scholastically better off on an average.

It still is good advice in cultures that still value family. However, in the dying West, people have lost the ability of looking clearly at facts and instead get their meaningless ideologies in the way. The sad part is that many of the career minded women know it to be true deep down, but feminists shame and terrorize them into making life choices that are sub optimal for their happiness. The media spins the false narrative of "having it all". All the while female happiness continues to plunge with each passing survey, and clueless "social psychologists" keep clamoring for more and more professional favoritism for women - the wrong solution for the wrong problem.

peterlongc · 2018-12-24T15:45:08+00:00

That's reasonable enough and certainly practical, but I think there is benefit to being as generous as possible in our judgment of others. It can even help people lower their guard and admit their faults sometimes

dottywine · 2018-12-24T18:09:25+00:00

So what’s her tip to getting a man who can afford for me to stay at home?

LeJacquelope · 2018-12-25T01:36:51+00:00

The hate for career women is maddening in light of the fact that hypergamy is such a huge problem for TRP.

You can hate hypergamy or you can look down on career women but you cannot do both.

Alwaysfresh9 · 2019-05-05T05:57:22+00:00

I lost it when she wrote " teaches about Jesus all day long" as though that's a good thing. Poor kids .. and she's in their face 24/7 lol.

toronto87 · 2018-12-24T06:28:37+00:00

Career women discriminate against themselves with their dating preferences.

Title	What do you think of this Facebook Post about career women?
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Date	December 24, 2018 1:44 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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