Sarah Strohmeyer's Blog - Posts Tagged "hillary-rosen"
Women vs. Women
Days after the Ann Romney, Hillary Rosen smack down, my Facebook friends were still trying to sort through the detritus trying to answer the question that has plagued our gender for the ages.
How come women can't get along?
Now, personally, I believe this women-hating-women is largely hogwash. Women do get along in the office, on the field, in the home, in hospitals. We work together just fine. What divides us isn't women, but men.
For as long as men have had the power, some women have benefitted (or not) by men who are willing to carry them financially, especially if they are beautiful. I know these are incendiary words and some of you may argue those days are gone. As evidence to the contrary, I give you Exhibit A: Real Housewives of Orange County.
If you're anything like me, you watch these idiots with your jaw open. How is it that they live in these gorgeous homes, seem to do little to no work that doesn't involve promoting their own line of clothing/shoes/perfume and still afford the limos, the multiple body readjustments and nannies? Who pays for all that vanity?
Men. Somewhere there's a man making all this possible. Perhaps not legally or frugally. One husband committed suicide. Many battle debt. They all seem to have problems with alcohol and even if I had to live in a shack pulling potatoes out of the dusty ground for sustenance I wouldn't sleep with one of them.
But it's different for men. Men who are financially carried by women because of their looks are called gigolos. Granted, that day is changing. Hallelujah! The concept of "being kept" is fading because now women are beginning to earn more than men, men are staying home to raise kids and they certainly don't appreciate the slur that they are somehow existing on the good graces of their wives. They want respect and rightly so.
My mother used to say women's liberation was as much for men as it was for women and this is a case in point. When men are liberated to earn less than women and be okay with that, when they're respected for taking care of the kids while their wives earn cash, then I think we'll find that resentment among women who work outside the home and those who don't will disappear.
And then, watch out, because women united might just change the world forever. Unless these stay-at-home guys start getting spray tans and tossing white wine in each other's faces, whereupon I'm just totally giving up.
How come women can't get along?
Now, personally, I believe this women-hating-women is largely hogwash. Women do get along in the office, on the field, in the home, in hospitals. We work together just fine. What divides us isn't women, but men.
For as long as men have had the power, some women have benefitted (or not) by men who are willing to carry them financially, especially if they are beautiful. I know these are incendiary words and some of you may argue those days are gone. As evidence to the contrary, I give you Exhibit A: Real Housewives of Orange County.
If you're anything like me, you watch these idiots with your jaw open. How is it that they live in these gorgeous homes, seem to do little to no work that doesn't involve promoting their own line of clothing/shoes/perfume and still afford the limos, the multiple body readjustments and nannies? Who pays for all that vanity?
Men. Somewhere there's a man making all this possible. Perhaps not legally or frugally. One husband committed suicide. Many battle debt. They all seem to have problems with alcohol and even if I had to live in a shack pulling potatoes out of the dusty ground for sustenance I wouldn't sleep with one of them.
But it's different for men. Men who are financially carried by women because of their looks are called gigolos. Granted, that day is changing. Hallelujah! The concept of "being kept" is fading because now women are beginning to earn more than men, men are staying home to raise kids and they certainly don't appreciate the slur that they are somehow existing on the good graces of their wives. They want respect and rightly so.
My mother used to say women's liberation was as much for men as it was for women and this is a case in point. When men are liberated to earn less than women and be okay with that, when they're respected for taking care of the kids while their wives earn cash, then I think we'll find that resentment among women who work outside the home and those who don't will disappear.
And then, watch out, because women united might just change the world forever. Unless these stay-at-home guys start getting spray tans and tossing white wine in each other's faces, whereupon I'm just totally giving up.
