i am woman. hear me yawn.
To the person who sent me this shitty fascinating article…please stop.
Stop sending me emails about my opinion on work-life balance. If there’s one thing I couldn’t care less about…it’s work-life balance.
Also, stop sending me articles about how successful women are lonely and depressed. I don’t buy it. Whoever said a degree and fist-fulls of cash can’t keep you warm at night clearly has never seen me on a Friday night.
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Listen.
I spent 4 years in college listening to theories about whether “women can have it all.” I think that question is insulting. Not because it implies that women can’t have it all…but because it implies that men can.
Historically, men haven’t “had it all” either.
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How many workaholic men do you know? How many men do you know who barely see their families? How many men do you know who are closer to their coworkers than their children?
These men not only don’t have a work/life balance…they are completely estranged from the “life” part of the equation.
So then why are men paraded as these emblems of work/life balance? Why are women always characterized as these floundering failures who can’t get their act together?
I don’t know.
But I’m really tired of reading about it.
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There’s an episode of the Simpsons that explains it all perfectly.
Marge is sitting on the couch reading a copy of “Fretful Mother” magazine.
Licking her finger from time to time to flip the pages.
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I think society just likes to paint women as neurotic freaks who can never be happy.
And I’m not sure that this ranting blog post did anything to change that perception…but here’s my two cents.
1. We’re not all neurotic.
2. We’re not all unhappy.
3. Some of us can be neurotic AND happy. Those things are not mutually exclusive. For example, I am never happier than when I am nagging and screaming. Don’t let my furrowed brow and foaming mouth confuse you. I’m having the time of my life!
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Has It All (Except Symmetrical Eyebrows) like,
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