Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

We can’t win in this society. As women, I mean. We either work, or we don’t. We are damned if we do, damned if we don’t. I am talking about this article I saw when I logged into my Google home page this morning, the title of which is Careers and Marriage. It sounds innocent, but as I started reading it, I could not believe it. This guy really thinks that a “career woman”, is not able to have a family and keep everyone in it happy. I admit, my home life is not always perfect. I don’t thin that by chucking my job and staying home will make it even better. Hold on, let me start ripping this article apart form the beginning, shall I?

Career women are more likely to get divorced, cheat and less likely to have children. When we do have kids, we aren’t happy about it. A career girl, for the purposes of this article, is a woman whom is university educated (me), works 35 hours or more outside the home (me), and makes 30K a year (also me).

First he has a generic rant about marriage and blah blah blah. Then we get into it. Women meet other men at work and run off leaving their husbands in the lurch. What-eve-errrr. Men have been doing this for years decades. Get over it. If you treat your spouse like crap, it is only natural that he/she will leave for for someone better if they get half a chance. Which I guess a career woman gets if she works outside the home. The stay at home mom/woman will not get as much interaction with men as the career woman does, which is probably why you see career woman realizing that their mate is a schmuck and they will leave him. They see that things can be better and they make their escape.

As for the cheating, the same argument can be made. If is is in front of you…So be it. It is unfortunate that it is written in out genetic codes to be with more than one sexual partner, it is only a recent (in the last couple millenia) that our societies have decided that we should cleave only unto one partner (which I wholly believe in). What I mean by that statement, it is very easy for a person to talk him/her self into doing something stupid wehn they get half a chance. You see it all the time, remember Hugh Grant? Enough said.

It seems to be that us “career womn” have enough to worry about without some misguided soul writting this ignorant and useless article. It is hard enough finding your ‘soul mate” without this rubbish adding to the pile.

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