Besides the many, many ways in which this article is offensive to men, women, and anyone with a brain, this sentence stood out to me:
Outside the office, these women use their type A careerist energy to become multitasking machines—they run the board of their favorite charities, challenge their men on the ski slopes, have a healthy post-Cosmo attitude toward threesomes, decorate to Martha Stewart’s standards, make steak chili on game day, and, while dishing it out, present a solid case for why the Steelers should go for it at fourth and one.
Ladies, in order to be the perfect female, not only do you have to be professionally and physically successful, but you also have to be knowledgeable about football and have a healthy attitude towards threesomes. That one phrase caused INTENSE anger in me. Because you know, if you’re not interested in having another person in your bedroom, obviously you are UNhealthy and something is seriously wrong with you. Forget freedom of choice and making your own decisions about your own body, you big prude. Of course, that third party will be a female, preferably one your guy is attracted to, preferably one of your good friends.
All this from a women’s magazine. Barf. -M
I kind of ignored the parts about women and threesomes and focused instead on the whole, ‘men aren’t settling down because they really don’t have to, and hey, they really don’t want to’ message. Which I get. That’s cool. If I were a guy, I’d be right there with you.
Instead, I’m a female who would like to have kids one day. And I would prefer to have healthy kids, which, studies have shown, the chances of having a child with special needs go up every year after 30.
I can’t wait for this crap to level out - this men vs women pay grades and games played and feminism vs whatever the opposite of feminism is and so on…
