For feminist warriors and social engineers, anything that help or propel their agenda is good. Anything. Even one of the worst recession in the country’s history that is costing people millions of jobs. Especially that millions of job used to belong mostly to men.
Just like World War II is being remembered by feminists mostly not as a catastrophe that took millions of lives, or associated with holocaust, or atomic bomb, but a turning point or a historic opportunity in which women took over men's jobs at homefront which were usually dominated by men, such as factory assembly line, etc.
So this on-going large scale recession looked to those feminists as just another opportunity to push their agenda and gender role reversal. Their central focus is men to do more of cooking, cleaning, diaper-changing and free up women's time so that she can concentrate more on work and be more effective, so that she can outdo those few remaining men in workforce - so that more women in senior position, more women in workforce, more pay for women, less men in workforce, especially senior position and lower pay for men.
It's a bit scandalous to think that there are people who welcome and embrace this recession as once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to further their agenda, isn't it?
Does anyone wants to talk about how the current recession is “discriminatory” against men given that men were disproportionately high among those laid off recently? Anyone? Hello?
If it was women, not men, who were hit hardest by the recession, NYT will be running full-page article bemoaning gender discrimination and how society is stacked against women every single day, but since it is men who are getting the pink slips, it’s just the matter of how to utilize this opportunity to promote gender role reversal.
If you look at this recession from another angle, you can perhaps say that economy in which women share proportion of workforce is a slow and sluggish one. It is important to remember here that no country or society in history has achieved high growth and economic development by relying mostly on “women” jobs, such as teaching, nursing, providing health care, etc. If such “women” jobs are to represent higher portion of country’s economy in the coming days, then it is a bad news, since economy is simply not going to grow just by relying on people providing service to other people. It would naturally mean that country as a whole will become poorer, since those jobs aren’t high-paying job anyway, but this is nothing to do with the supposed gender discrimination. You would need people to “create” things, be it products or buildings or infrastructure, in order for economy to grow and society to develop.
The countries who are rapidly expanding and developing are the ones that value and utilize the talents of male workers, such as in hi-tech industry, manufacturing, construction, as you can see most clearly in countries like China and India. If you devalue or belittle male talents, the country’s economy will shrink
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Seriously? "women's work" and "men's work"? Right.. because there are no female engineers, scientists, architects etc. (or male teachers, nurses or health care providers, for that matter) And China's growing economy is obviously the result of not "belittling male potential" rather than their lack of any sort of worker's rights, fair pay, or unions which make it a paridise for Western companies who employ both male and female third world employees. (also, for the record, China encourages women to be educated and to take part in business and the general workforce)
hmm. Well, here's a solution that may work, mabye if we could make the "women" jobs recieve higher pay, then the people running this country and raising the future could be more financially capable to do so while supporting kids AND a "laid-off" housband untill he gets back on his feet.This seems more resonable than saying, "
"If such 'women' jobs are to represent higher portion of country’s economy in the coming days, then it is a bad news, since economy is simply not going to grow just by relying on people providing service to other people. It would naturally mean that country as a whole will become poorer, since those jobs aren’t high-paying job anyway”, stated in the article above. ?!?! And what are you talking about this economy can not grow just by relying on the people providing services to other people????? What do you call a “side job” in construction, or construction work itsself??? First off, aren’t you DOING something for SOMEONE? The company its self is providing SERVICE to PEOPLE who need work done on their houses or roofs, etc. This whole country runs on everyone providing services for other people, dispite the degree it’s in. The problem is not filling this country with jobs that “create things” but focusing and valueing thoes jobs that will still be around when there no more goddamn room on this planet to bild any more junk. We need people to "create things" in order to make more money???? Wheres the sence in that? Uhhh Yeah, lets build more houses and more malls so we can all get in even more debt. OH! we can build little stores that sell stuff...then all the people who keep getting laid off from their “men” jobs, when we finally realize building stuff and nocking trees down is NOT working, then they can all work in retaile! mabye that 8 bucks an hour will do ya good, cuz by that time the "women" jobs such as teaching will be taken by thoes who realized what the main focus SHOULD be in this world. & don't get me wrong, i am aware that there are many men out there who are nurses or teachers as well as women who do construction or who do the apperentally called “men work” so no disrespect towards those people. What really needs to be realized here is that it dosent matter what gender you are or what race you are. We are all HUMAN BEINGS and the only reason we separate oruselves is because were stuck on this tinny little planet togethere causing us to notice the most insignificent little details about eachother and calling one Tdifferent" or even discimirating and causing hate world wide. When in reality, WE ARE ALL THE SAME with a heart and a brain. How we use them is where we are different. In the end though, we all experience the same feelings, the ones we sometimes cant describe.
-Heather T. L.
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