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Behind Every Successful Man Is A Woman Rolling Her Eyes

by Katie Herridge
24 April 2013 5 Comments

It's about time we dismissed some myths about the forever changing lifestyle of the modern woman...

Chores to CEO, babies to bosses and marriage to managers. The forever changing lifestyle of the modern woman. Who says you can’t cook the Sunday roast, with a baby on your hip, whilst emailing your work to the boss? Well surprisingly, quite a few. But not from the other species we call men, but from our own kind. The middle aged women. The middle aged woman has taken it upon herself to tell us young, naive but brilliant women that our dreams of family and a career can not co-exist side by side. That it is impossible to have it all. I refuse to believe this is an option.

Looking back in time 50 years ago, women were still washing clothes by hand in the gas boiler and spent 6 hours a day doing house work. Comparing their life to ours is hard to get your head around. Everyone has experienced the lecture from their grandma or an elderly family member about the ‘olden days’ and that our generation rely on gadgets too much and soon technology will take over the world. But why is that always such a bad thing? Why make things harder for yourself? These appliances such as dish washers and washing machines, have opened doors to hundreds of new opportunities for women such as, starting a career by going to University or applying for full time work. We should be thanking these electrical companies for creating such wonderful devices that have given us the future our grandmas could never have imagined. It is amazing to see how technology has progressed and have become our most loyal companion - until they break.

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I found an online article by Anne Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department in Washington, on ‘The Atlantic’ website, explaining why she thinks “Women still can’t have it all.” I tried to read it, but frankly I got bored and angered by her whinging and whining about her life, by telling the world she was the reason her son was failing school and her husband couldn’t work because he needed to do the house work. I know mums feel the need to take the blame on everything, but this is an over reaction. How is this setting a role model for young women? If all we’ve got is Rihanna and Katie Price, then we’ve got no hope. We need more inspiring and powerful women, to prove that with enough hard work and dedication, you can be successful.

The middle aged woman can find herself being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Why does it have to be all or nothing? They feel guilty if they work, they feel guilty if they don’t. What ever decisions that those women made in their past, shouldn’t affect the next generation of women ready to conquer the world. What society is still trying to accept, is for men and older generations to realise that it’s ok for women to not want to get married and focus on a career instead. I admire the women that don’t want a family; but I have been brought up by Disney, and have been planning my wedding from five years of age.

I’ve got A Levels and am at University because I want to work hard and earn my own income as well. I hate the idea of having to always rely on someone. Money and careers give you independence, yet marriage and children give you love and comfort. I’m not saying it’s easy being able to have it all, but as a young woman, I am expecting to have it all because I believe that it is possible. It is all down to planning and passion. If you want something enough, you will not rest until you get it. So if I have to miss a meeting for sports day or vice versa, then I would be ok with that. It’s all about choosing your battles and deciding what YOU want, no matter what other people may think. What ever happened to compromise? I fail to believe that feminists have sold young women a fiction. If technology and social class improve as much as they have in the past, then young women will be ruling the world in the next ten years, because lets face it, how hard can it be?

 

 

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bnd 6:23 am, 24-Apr-2013

my advice to someone studying at the moment is get your career planned right now. you might not have the choice of missing a meeting to go to your sports day! of course u can have both, i know many that do. do you think that when we are grown up though we will have similar complaints to old people now? what will they be? (cos i cant believe we wont!!)

Robert 12:22 pm, 24-Apr-2013

'It is amazing to see how technology has progressed and have become our most loyal companion – until they break.' Not English you're studying, I hope?

Sbat 6:39 pm, 24-Apr-2013

I think those middle age women are speaking from experience of living the life you're trying to live. I see my mother and her middle aged high-powered professional colleagues struggling with it, even with the aid of technology. There's the life of two spouses trying to keep a marriage with kids going with jobs in different time zones (or one of you having to make major career sacrifices to be in the same place to raise the kids), the high expense of eating out every night because no one has time to cook meals, the mental exhaustion from hectic schedules that prevents you from spending quality time with your significant other or by yourself. It's not impossible, but I'm sure you'll find that even the best laid plans can and will go to utter ruin in the face of real life.

Gary Stewart 9:48 pm, 24-Apr-2013

Where to start? Over reliance on technology. Lack of life experience. No actual cogent argument given except "I think I can" I love to see new contributors get an opportunity to write, but this was frankly nonsense

RB 10:23 pm, 24-Apr-2013

Whilst I genuinely wish you all the best, I suspect you'll look at this article in the future and think to yourself "Goodness, I was naive".

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