When will this BS stop?
Apparently women are partly to blame for men not wanting to work in “female occupations”.
Are you kidding me?
So not only do you f#%) us over when we try to enter “male occupations” like STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math), you want to also say that it is our fault that men don’t want to do “female jobs”?
To add insult to injury, when men are in those “female” jobs, they MAKE MORE MONEY THAN THEIR FEMALE COUNTERPARTS.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?
I am so incensed I’m typing in caps.
I only have one question:
Do you like money?
If you like money, and you want to enter an occupation that is “typically female”, you’re not going to give a single F#*% and you will MAKE THAT MONEY.
If you want to work, you will work.
Stop blaming others for your laziness.
You will not care if it is a “male” or “female” job, and by the way, I didn’t realize jobs had genders.
The problem with our society is also our cultural conditioning. How many times have you heard:
Don’t be such a girl about it
Stop _____ like a girl
Stop being a ps#$*y
Stop whining / crying like a little girl/b*tch
(in fact, the vagina is much stronger than a penis, as it gives birth and handles a lot more pain than a delicate penis can, FYI)
Our entire vocabulary and speech centers around women being weak, stupid, inferior, and emotional.
Men on the other hand, get to be strong, smart, superior and confident (not emotional). All the stuff we prize as a society and culture.
Even in the article, it states how women (!!!) don’t want men to take on these jobs like being a nurse or a nanny because it is emasculating.
Listen. If he is making bank, who cares? WHO CARES? Do you like food? Do you like your bills paid? So STFU and support him.
I really, really, REALLY hate this.
What kills me, is that only when it becomes a professional job, like cooking, suddenly MEN are the top chefs in the kitchen and the world, doing the “tough hard work”, and women are ROUTINELY kept out of professional kitchens across the country, but when it is at home where there is ZERO GLORY and only hard slogging guts — women are the only ones who should be cooking because that’s a “woman’s job and duty” in the household.
I’ve had boys actually tell me this – that men don’t cook. To my face.
SERIOUSLY?
Have we gone bonkers and accepted this? It is nonsense that women should only be allowed to be in non-professional, invisible spaces, whereas men are the only ones who should be in the spotlight, seen by everyone and praised.
We’ve got to get over this #%*.
Women, we also need to be asking for more money. I’ve talked myself blue in the face about this but it is ultimately up to YOU to ask for more money because you feel you deserve equal pay.
What can we do as individuals?
Women, do your research and check if you are being EQUALLY PAID.
Everyone, stop using, and stop encouraging (yes, staying silent is encouraging) people to say things to little boys and girls about “crying like a little girl”. Boys can cry too, and they should, they aren’t robots, they are individuals who have emotions and feelings.
Even using words like: Oh this is for a housewife … is also sexist. I’d sub in “stay at home parent” instead. My partner cooks at home and cleans some things, plus does laundry. Is he a housewife? No.
Stop talking negatively about jobs and assigning genders to them. Is it a bad thing that individuals take the jobs they are best suited at?
No?
Then STFU.
Some men are better caregivers than women, and some women are better professional butchers & cooks than men.
We should look at individuals for the talents and merits that each one has to give, rather than their gender which has nothing to really do with what they are good at.
Have your response be: And what is wrong with that? .. when it becomes racist, sexist, ageist…
I find it throws people off when they make snide comments like — oh but she is just a housewife – and I respond — so what’s wrong with that?
Just think and be fair to individuals. That’s it. It isn’t that hard to be human. At least, it shouldn’t be.
