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The Smarter They Are, The More They Cheat -- Could It Be Because The Men They Marry Somehow All End Up Being Impotent Dorks Who Don't Pick Up Their Socks?

What Ho, Feminism?

Or, Why Michael Noer Never Got Laid Again, Except By That One Girl Who Works at The Piggly-Wiggly and Cain't Read so Good

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xoxo, A

(link via Gawker via Boing Boing via, y'knaw, the internets , yo)

*UPDATE*

Muchas gracias for all the love, dear Internet Denizens. But guess what, Forbes yanked the story! All hail the power of femme-wrath shitstorm. Anyway, Gawker re-uplinked. Have fun.

Comments

[Jenny]

Ugh. I just saw that. Makes me sick.

If you really want to throw things at a wall though, read this one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=398998&in_page_id=1879

[Siobhan]

Thanks, A. -

Do you ever feel like it's gone from date to job interview? I do. I feel like I'm being interviewed for the position of Wife, and if I answer one question wrong, another guy is going to cross-check me with his Laundry List of requirements, and I'll be Checked Off.

No, you're right, I don't really need one of those male-units but it does get lonely out here sometimes.

[The Wordyeti]

The Nietzsche quote: "One seems not to realize that worldview is a confession of character" seems to apply here. Them damn uppity career wimmen!

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise to me that this kinda crapola is back out from the stale meme dustbin; the whole "rise of the conservative movement" thing we've been having to endure fits right in with all this ... all the guys voting Republican and driving H2s and trying desperately to prove that they measure up to their hairy-chested he-man fantasies find nothing quite so terrifying as a woman who just won't fit into their little proscribed categories.

I hate to say it, but I know of a lot of men in L.A. who are the perfect target audience for this kind of tripe...

[Catharine]

Re: Why Michael Noer Never Got Laid....

Kindly warn a person before she takes a sip of coffee whilst reading it and damn near shoots it out her nose. On her desk.

That would be her desk. At work. Where she makes more than $30K a year, is single and, for the most part, very, very happy.

~C~

[A.]

Oh dear, Catherine, so sorry for violent nasal coffee-shooting reaction. That was never our intent.

It is batshit crazy, though, that this sort of thing is up for debate in our times. Who ever thought, after all, it would be a question, whether women should work or not? And coming from a national, supposedly neutral publication? Horrible, M. Noer!

And yes, Sioban, dating SO can be like a job interview. Either one is too Domestic and not Ambitious enough, or the reverse. And fie on that. Are we not evolved enough to allow for different dynamics than previous generations? And were our parents and their parents so happy after all?