And what makes it even worse is that the fucking website turns the pages for you.

[apocalypsos]

Forbes Magazine feature: Reasons Not To Marry a Career Woman. My current plans for the rest of the afternoon -- teleporting back from 1975.

I spent a good chunk of last night before I got sent home early making Christian music CDs. It'd be nice to actually make music I like for a change. I mean, personal preference and all, but Christian music reminds me of Lili Taylor's character in Say Anything .... "Joe. She's written 65 songs... 65. They're all about you." Anybody who sees what I'm getting at wins a cookie. (I guess I could like it more if more of it were actually pretty, but ... er, no.)

Also, spotted on IMDB news ...

The story of the arrest of a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case pushed aside seemingly more important matters including Iran's test of long-range missiles and a ruling by a federal judge in Michigan that overturned the Bush administration's domestic-surveillance operations. MSNBC, which scored a beat on its rivals by being the first to report on last Wednesday's arrest in Bangkok of John Mark Karr, continued to devote considerable time to the story as late as Sunday, as Karr was being flown back to the U.S. in the business class section of Thai Airlines. At 10:01 a.m. MSNBC bannered: "BREAKING NEWS; RAMSEY SUSPECT ALLOWED TO DRINK CHAMPAGNE WHEN HE BOARDED PLANE." Five minutes later it changed its "Breaking News" banner to "RAMSEY SUSPECT'S ONBOARD DINNER INCLUDED PATÉ AND FRIED KING PRAWNS." At 12:31, another "Breaking News" banner read, "RAMSEY SUSPECT HAS HAD CHAMPAGNE, A BEER AND GLASS OF WINE ON PLANE."

Dude, he ate better than me that night.

Last night's Daily Show was awesome. And I think that's it for now.

Comments

[the-jackalope.livejournal.com]

That "article" is just disgusting. Really, really disgusting.

[horsefacehannah.livejournal.com]

I know what you're getting at.
Do I get cookie? (http://community.livejournal.com/theoffice_us/458036.html)

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

My current plans for the rest of the afternoon -- teleporting back from 1975.

Revolting. (The article, not your plans. I'm right there with you in the Tardis.)

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Query: Why is Rob Corddry leaving? And the new guy was kinda hot.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Cordry is joining the cast of The Office. I think.

-blue

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

No, I think he has his own new show starting. But I do know that Ed Helms is going to be on The Office.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Curses! Got my Daily Show people mixed up. I'm sorry.

-blue

[florahart]

Wow, that article is something else.

In the stinky pile of crap way, not the special treat way.

Bleah.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

That article SUCKS.

Have just canceled my Forbes subscription, dammit. (But yay, can get the Economist, which has better international news coverage anyway).

Of course, they had to use Sylvia Whiny Hewlett person as a source, so of COURSE it's a stupid article.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

I actually listen exclusively to Christian music in my car. Steven Curtis Chapman and Todd Agnew, mostly--and I maintain that either of them could have had a good career in secular music. While I do think that a lot of Christian music sounds the same, quite frankly, most secular pop music sounds like variations on a clone to me. "I love you, baby, let's have sex," "I sex you, baby, let's have love," and/or "Arr! I'm an angry girl!" I prefer to listen to music that has lyrics that resonate with me.

Just, y'know, a different perspective.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You know what I'll admit that I love? Gospel music. Just hardcore loud-ass gospel music. The kind of gospel music where it sounds like they're dragging out the music all the way up from their feet.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Hey, how can you not love that? People singing from their souls (and soles!) is always a good listen.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

I have no words for that report.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Huh. Does it not occur to Forbes that maybe in this day and age some of its business-type readers could be...female? The cluelessness running through this "feature" is absolutely stunning, but my favorite "reason" to avoid marrying a "career woman" has to be number 6: Your house will be dirtier.

In 2005, two University of Michigan scientists concluded that if your wife has a job earning more than $15 an hour (roughly $30,000 a year), she will do 1.9 hours less housework a week. Of course, this can be solved if the husband picks up a broom.

No shit?! Practically all of the "problems" mentioned here can be directly ascribed to the fact that men don't pick up brooms, even when their wives out-earn them.

I'm going to write an article called "Reasons Not to Marry a Businessman". They'll cheat, they won't do any housework, and they'll resent you for having your own career, and then they'll blame it on you.

-blue

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

There's a great South Park episode where Cartman decides that the best way to get famous is to start a Christian rock band. His writing consists of taking previously-written songs, crossing out words like "baby," "honey," and "lover," and replacing them with "Jesus."

Great stuff, especially when the studio's wondering why he's saying things like "I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus. I want to feel his salvation all over my face," or "I want to walk hand-in-hand with Jesus on a private beach for two. I want him to nibble on my ear and say 'I'm here for you.'"

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

© Shutterstock

You are more likely to fall ill.
A 2001 study found that having a wife who works less than 40 hours a week has no impact on your health, but having a wife who works more than 40 hours a week has "substantial, statistically significant, negative effects on changes in her husband's health over that time span." The author of another study summarizes that "wives working longer hours not do not have adequate time to monitor their husband's health and healthy behavior, to manage their husband's emotional well-being or buffer his workplace stress."


"OH MY FUCKING GOD!"


In quotes because I just literally shouted this out loud at my computer. I mean, I thought it couldn't get any worse... but it keeps getting worse!

I am never going to by this magazine. Or if I do-- I'll buy this issue just to show people how revolted I am.

[cranberry-crash.livejournal.com]

In total agreement. I mean, if my husband is too stupid to realize that he's getting a cold on his own, then I don't really know what I'm supposed to do for him.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm reading a 1955 "how to be a wife" manual that explains tending to my husbands emotional well-being after a hard day of work, and rubbing his feet and having dinner all laid out for him so he can feel like he doesn't have to be worried or feel a lick of bad stress.

As I said in a reply to my closest male relative who only read the first page and couldn't see why I was bothered, on the topic of that last health reason:

Because didn't you know? Your wife is also your mommy, and it's her job to monitor your health and set aside time to manage your emotional well-being and buffer your workplace stress. She'll also wipe the brown gooey stuff from your bottom, wipe the snot from your nose, and patiently explain to you how to read the label on the cough syrup bottle. That's why every man gets married, right?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that this article never once explains the negative affects on the WOMAN's health, and all the stress she goes through picking up "the man's house" (not THEIR house, notice, and not her house) and tending to his stress on top of her own. Because god forbid he be concerned about her health if he can't even be concerned about his own.

I'm just glad my parents' marriage doesn't look like that. When I get married, I don't want MY marriage to look like that. Last time I checked "in sickness and in health" was something both people said at the alter, not just the woman.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

I actually started screaming really, really loudly (in my head, but still). The sheer horror drove all coherent thought from my mind.

I'm still twitching. Can I sue for emotional trauma?

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Wow, that article was just horribly offensive and shallowly thought out. It was essentially "Blah blah statistics that mean nothing," and then a random conclusion, followed by me saying "Or, in a less misogynistic interpretation..." I found this particularly interesting in light of this as well.

But in the end, I find a certain satisfaction in all this. Despite wishing we women didn't still have to deal with this crap, and that the world didn't still hold chauvinists, I'm happy that the world has changed to the point where it's causing the sexists problems. And what more is this article, essentially, than someone complaining that a woman's not around anymore to tend exclusively to his happiness, health, home, and offspring, and whining about how it affects him? This article won't change us, and it won't stop us; it'll just make him look stupid to anyone with brains. And that, in the final estimation, I find incredibly satisfying.

What can I say, I'm an optimist.

(P.S. *sings* Joe lies...when he cries...)