Friday Femme Fatale: Underdogs, Obamacare & Happiness
Published September 18, 2009 @ 10:22PM PT
Still in the midst of the health care reform battle....but life goes on. Here's this week's Friday Femme Fatale:
- Margaret Chin Trounces Gerson - Makes History in Chinatown (The Low Down)
- Do Women Legislators Benefit From An Underdog Effect? (The Atlantic)
- Being A Woman Is A Pre-Existing Condition (Air America)
- Atlantic Monthly: What Women And Non-White Male Commentators Say Isn't "Influential" (Feminist Peace Network)
- Are Condoms the Ultimate Green Technology? (New York Times Blog)
- One in Six Men Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse (Women's Health.gov)
- What's Happening To Women's Happiness? (Huffington Post)
- To hell with... Caitlin Flanagan (WIMN's Voices)
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In the article "Whats happening to women's happiness" I get the impression that the author is attempting to use or rather misuse the findings of those surveys in order to justify the foolish idea that working women harder and relegating them back to just being housewives/mothers would make them happier when in reality it would have the opposite effect...Not that theres anything wrong with being a house wife and/or mother...Women just shouldnt be limited to just those two options.
No...What I believe is really making them unhappy is that even though theyve advanced in terms of employment opputunities and such, the hypocritical fact that all too often theyre still being seen...And treated as inferior even within those enviroments would tend to make at least some of them doubt that theyve really advanced at all...
Makes me wonder that too.
Im thinking its high time that we who are for women's rights and equality should focus on changing attitudes and thinking processes moreso than on simply putting women in higher places.
Posted by Thomas McHugh on 09/19/2009 @ 06:31PM PT
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I agree with you.
I would also like to piggy back ride your ideas with the notion that many organizational structures (be it in academia, in business, in law, in politics, etc) are designed to fit the traditional male role.
Many CEOs, lawyers, investment bankers, etc are expected to work 60 hour weeks. This used to work for them because they didn't have any other jobs to fulfill at home. However, women are experiencing the "double shift", where they have to work twice as hard at a job and then come back to work on the home.
Many women can blame themselves. Many experts blame women. In fact, everyone should take a leap back, and see the whole picture. There's nothing wrong with the women. It's the system that is structured to fit the traditional male lifestyle that impedes women from succeeding as much as they could.
What is needed is a system that benefits both. Moreover, just as women have been expected to take on traditonally male gender roles, men should also take on traditionally female gender roles to balance out the lifestyles of both.
Posted by Juan Portillo on 09/24/2009 @ 09:49AM PT
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I agree mr. portillo.
Posted by Thomas McHugh on 09/24/2009 @ 09:46PM PT
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Women are unhappy for the same reason Tibet is unhappy. Our values are being crowded out, overrun and stomped on.
Posted by Oceania OZ on 09/20/2009 @ 07:43AM PT
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It really disappoints me to see the pictures like the one shown here.
All the people who are debating health care and whether it's a right or not and wheter it will fund abortion or not bla bla bla bla are people who ultimately will not be affected negatively by healthcare reform. These are the privileged few who have loud voices and also have the time to think and debate...while there are millions out there who are suffering while nothing gets done.
The same people who have always been in power, always been privileged, these are the people who oppose the healthcare reform. The ironic part is that even though they are privileged, they are extremely ignorant about how millions of their brothers and sisters in this country are at risk because of lack of healthcare.
I, the third world citizen, feel sorry for this country.
Posted by Juan Portillo on 09/24/2009 @ 09:53AM PT
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Indeed mr. portillo...
I would add that not only are the elite ignorant of the sufferings of the common human being but worse still is the fact that they dont care about that suffering unless it interferes with their profit margin...
Posted by Thomas McHugh on 09/24/2009 @ 09:48PM PT
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