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This recession has been particularly hard on men. At one point last winter, four men were laid off for every woman. Largely this is due to the fact that so many men work in vulnerable sectors like manufacturing and construction that have been devastated the the recession. Women tend to work in safer sectors like health care.
If the reverse were true, we'd probably be reading a lot about how women were being victimized and forced into the least safe jobs. Some bright women's study professor would talk about how society was "privileging" male jobs and denigrating women's work. But you won't hear that kind of case from men because, well, it''s distinctly unmanly to whine about being dominated by women in society.
Chris Caldwell has a great essay in " Time Magazine on what he calls our "Pink Recovery.
"Although clichés about the "vulnerability" of women in the economy have been disproved by hard BLS data, we want to believe them. When women lose jobs, the victims are women," he writes. "When men lose jobs, the victims are, um, women, because they have to make up for that lost male income."
There are plenty of people--we've actually met and worked with some of them--who think there's a kind of cosmic justice operating here. Men dominated the investment banks and financial fortresses that led us into this mess, so they deserve to suffer more during the recession.
But is that true? Sure there weren't many women among the malefactors in the financial meltdown. But when it came to the mortgage and consumer spending boom, the innocence of women is not so obvious.
As Steve Sailer points out, at the very least, men and women worked together to build our empire of debt. And for a great many couples, women were probably the drivers in really piling on household debt.
Okay, but, consider that at the base of the financial crash were people, typically couples, taking out home mortgages that they couldn't afford, mostly to either buy homes (generally sold to them by female real estate agents) they couldn't afford or to do home improvements they couldn't afford.
In the typical couple who has defaulted, which sex -- husband or wife -- on average do you think was more ardent for the granite countertop upgrade? Was it husbands or wives who tended to insist most on buying the larger house with the exercise room and enough space for relatives to stay over and the extra big dining room for hosting dinner parties?
It would really be fascinating to see which sex was responsible for spending the cash-out mortgage money and the HELOC drawdowns.
HooBoy.
ReplyDeleteWe all knew some returd would just have to GO THERE.
My wife and I are retired, and each making $8.00 an hour. Are we STILL eligible to buy a $450,000.00 McMansion, or is that over with now?
ReplyDeleteI am from the school that "Dogs" caused the recession. It's quite clear when the Chinese were poisoning the Dog food a couple of years ago, the recession began.
ReplyDeleteYou can not get much more explicit than that.
As a woman myself, I believe many of the worlds problems can be blamed on women. Or more correctly, the woman's movement.
ReplyDeleteIt has wrecked families, children, destroyed lives, marriages, and has torn apart the very essence of America into shreds. This satanic filth has caused more grief than anyone has given credit for.
Women need to be put in their place, so real women like myself, can be women. Not in an abusive, lowly state of slavery, but in the order in which God placed man and woman.
Thus, a woman becomes lofty and more deserving of respect.
The woman's movement has been by far, one of he most ruinous and disastrous events to have ever occurred on the surface of the earth. Even the biggest bomb cannot be compared to it.
So, in a way, yes - it has been women who have contributed to, if not caused this recession, coupled with weak, spineless men who have allowed it and cannot control their own home. - All being guided under the hypnotic influence of the children of satan. John 8:44.
Nelson Rockefeller bragged to Aaron Russo that his family single handily started the feminist movement. Their reason for doing it was to expand the worker tax base for their fraudently slave servitude via the fed income tax.
ReplyDeleteIn the 50s and 60s a man could work and support an entire family, expenses, car, etc. Now it takes two. Not an accident.
The other less obvious reason is that when a man is married with children he is effectively neutred when it comes to ever being a free thinking rebel. You must tie your thought process into groupthink and concern yourself with what your wife's friends will think about your opinions, your son may go to school and repeat what you said at the dinner table, etc.
This is why government and marriage has always gone hand in hand. It has nothing to do with promoting morals or any of that nonsense - it facilitates control.
Ishshah's post is 100% accurate.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget all of those shopoholic wives who felt compelled to run up credit card debt. I know a lot of husbands who complain about this very thing but always acquiescqe in the end as if they were under some authoritarian control. In the end they probably just don't want to put up with the conflict or whining that comes with saying "no", or god forbid if they stopped putting out for a while because Edith couldn't get that dinette set she was wanting. But what else are housewives to do during the day as hobby if they can't shop all day long and go to the spa and salon and get their hair and nails done.
ReplyDeleteThis is not anything to do with females but rather American culture.
I know my bible. Got a problem with it, or are you just threatened, little boy.
ReplyDeleteAnd to anonymous: But what else are housewives to do during the day...
They have the most important job on earth. To care for her family and home. To be a woman to her husband and a mother to her children.
She should take care of a garden, animals, making her children's clothes with 100% cotton and not satanic-mixed materials made in China. Cook, bake, clean and smile, being happy doing it, with grace and appreciation.
But of course, this mother/wife job is "frowned upon" as worthless in this sick society.
A woman's work is never done, unless they are screwing the boss for a promotion.
They will die by the sword of pestilence, too, for their sins.
The trash dikes of today have reduced women of my standards to their level, and I don't appreciate it. Then I get called a bullshit artist.
These are the first serious posts I have written. I am passionate about this subject.
But smart asses ruin it...I wont comment again, other than to say that it was Eve who caused our problems, 7,512 years ago, and Adam obeyed his wife instead of the other way around.
And to RandomCrap, no, you may not see my tits.
Meh, I blame both parties. I counseled several couples this tax season on the tax ramifications of foreclosure and/or debt cancellation. I found both parties equally culpable. The woman wanted the granite countertops, the man just had to have a fancy car to prove his status. The woman needed their kids to have the highest price clothes, the man had to have the camper/boat/ATV/weekend cabin.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame that most families apparently require two incomes. The reasons are many including taxes and "keeping up with the Jones". But the primary reason, IMHO, is the incredibly decreased purchasing power of the dollar. In real terms, income has gone down substantially.
BTW, I used to do a talk for mothers' groups about the value of a second income. After accounting for state tax, fed tax, social security, medicare, child care, convenience food, work suits, dry cleaning, etc., etc. the average mom needed to make at least $28,000 (in 2000) to just break even.
I'm a chick also, and while I'm no Bible expert (not even particularly religious, in fact) I can tell you that females are INDEED responsible for much of this economic crap.
ReplyDeleteNo single act in history impoverished more women and children than the feminist demanded notion of No-Fault Divorce. Look it up. The statistics will scare you.
Women flooding into the workplace accomplished two things: reduced the wages for all (but especially men), and gave us nothing but bratty kids for the last 30 years or so. You see, kids retaliate with a bit of an "attitude" when they are raised in day care centers and not by parents. My b/f is a far lefty, a teacher in Chicago. And he will be the first person to tell you that he can tell, within the first two weeks of school, which kids were raised by mom. And which were raised by strangers. It pains him, but he admits it. The kids raised by single moms are no bargain, either.
We girls have to get it through our heads...we can have it all, we just can't have it all AT ONCE. Live within your means as a family when the kids are little. You can work part-time to keep your toe in the marketplace and to network. As they get older, you can increase your working hours and contribute more toward the family coffers.
The other end of the equation ARE the kids. There are quite simply too many mouths in the world to feed (no not their faults). But why keep on pumping out babies and trying to live the American dream? Yes, even that institution is bankrupt - marriage. Love is an empty term to denote status or a position in life (along with the marble countertop and the boat). How sad that people feel they must mindlessly fill the role of "bread winner" or "home-maker" just because. The suburban life is an experiment in replication and fantasty. Hope is the term that makes people believe everything in the dream is going to be all right.
ReplyDeleteIshashah is right. Face it. "Progressives" (hehe...if that isn't a joke..) anti-religious types know it's true but will never admit it. Their mom's and dad's screwed up BIG TIME, as have most of the baby boom generation forward. Abandon God's principles and eventually the piper comes a-calling. That time is now.
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