I love the 77 cents on the dollar stat getting thrown around. People that mention that rarely mention how many more women go to college than men and that the number seems to be increasing, or the recent data that shows that women under 30 in urban areas make more than men of the same age bracket. Or if they do mention it those revelations always come with the attitude that it is a good thing. We also don't hear as much about women getting lighter prison sentences than men for committing the same crimes, women being almost immune to prosecution for domestic violence, the gap in boys being diagnosed ADD or ADHD versus girls, or other such issues where the patriarchy favors women. I applaud the author of the blog trying to breakdown gendered gentlemanly behavior because that sense of entitlement leads to all sorts of problems on both sides down the line.
And why is gentlemanly behavior so important to some of you yet you will rip each other to shreds over someone disagreeing with you on it? How in the blue bloody hell is that in anyway gentlemanly?
@ Krellin, it is true that maternity leave can be an issue for businesses, perhaps if our society valued the parenting contributions of fathers we would have that "problem" on both sides and businesses would be used to both parents taking leave and be able to adjust accordingly. Additionally on the argument of women are more expensive employees, men die sooner so businesses lose valuable employees that way. Maybe companies should stop hiring old dudes?
And Draugnar nice bringing the Gen X bashing into the mix with your "boomer's kids" quip. No we are not as self deprecatingly polite as Gen Y or as the Boomers. Of course the Boomers did more to trash the world politically, economically, and culturally than they ever did to try and make it better. Hell if it was not for things like the Civil Rights Movement Boomers would be nigh onto goddamn worthless. Your problem with Gen X is that we largely prefer not to kiss ass, especially to people like you that are just as rude as you claim us to be. And how in the fuck we got on generational rants from boys having to pee second at a daycare is beyond me, but then so is much of your "logic." And considering your pattern of speech/typing and your wife's mother's age I going to go with "privileged unknown race 60 something asshole." For someone in theory standing up for civility and not prejudging people you sure are an age bigot aren't you?
Of course your use of language, turns of phrase, and expectations speak to more than that. You appear to have a paternalist streak a mile or twelve wide when you expect deference to you, in part because of your age and station, and to "your women" as well. If someone does not show you that deference they are bad, uncouth, ill mannered, and thereby not a gentleman. Essentially because someone does not give you and yours proper sway and swath you take away their gentleman status, which is the first step towards emasculating someone, gendering them female, and ultimately them needing the warm paternalist protection that your false manners provide, all the while you talk trash about an entire generation of people that have been holding up the world economy while your people looted it. You can take your chivalry, your gentlemanly BS, your paternalism, and your hubris and ever so politely, graciously, and with all due deference to whomever you must show respect to in your anachronistic honor code and shove it so far up your own ass that you taste it. Because your form of manners is just another form of control that people like you try to impose on the masses.
And if the mods want to put me in a time out, feel free. Nothing I have said is worse than Draugnar trying to slip by another Boomer assault on my generation. Fuck him and all who think like him. To quote Billy Idol's band Generation X "Cause what you give it is what you get.....Your Generation don't mean a thing to me." Not only is the haughty, high minded, and morally bankrupt ignorance that comes from his mouth offensive but it is also the same shit that sets feminists off and makes men's rights activists that are not sexist look like shitheads. Because at the end of the day in his warped reality women must have doors held for them as they are incapable of it and all men below his station must show him deference. But because he is a man, an old man that expects the world to bend to his whim because of when he was born, he infantilizes everyone and turns them into good child that stays quiet at the table, bad child that dares to act outside his norms, or woman that is frail and must be coddled.
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