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Feminism Is The Supposed Key To Women's Unhappiness
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Try living in poverty growing up, and getting your first job at 15. I never had not working as an option...And when you know you will have to work for the rest of your life, you tend to make the intelligent choice to found and form a career rather than a series of unfulfilling drone jobs.
I don't know many men OR women that could sit around waiting for their "soul mate" to show up and lift them out of the daily grind. In what fantasy land are people offered these two options as the only ones, anyway, and mututally exclusive, at that?
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I dislike people speaking from a position of privilege and coming down on those of us with none.
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And if one did...well, he's not a guy you want to marry. See: Drew Peterson.
Zoe Lewis insults men and women alike with her depressed ramblings. Girlfriend needs Zoloft and counseling STAT.
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Heh. So much this.
02/10/09
I always figured:
Better unhappy than complacent.
Better self-absorbed than self-abnegating.
Better childless than resentful of my children, as I'm pretty certain I would be.
Better feminist than...do I even have to explain this?
And better posting random pointless attempts at wit and wisdom on teh Internetz than SELLING OUT MY ENTIRE GENDER AND THE MOVEMENT THAT MADE MY LIFESTYLE CHOICES ABOVE POSSIBLE, to the LOWEST FUCKING JOURNALISTIC BIDDER, yet.
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also, the author has a very angry face. maybe that has something to do with why she hasn't found a relationship, either. her forehead and eyes look like they're always in a perpetual frown.
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In my thirties, I've met the love of my life who adores the cynical, competitive, creative, smart, childless woman I am, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Yes, that's all, just: Awesome!
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Yeah, I hear what you are saying and agree with it, but it has come as somewhat of a surprise for women of my generation (X), I think. It seems like the men I know who have similar educations and accomplishments to their name get a lot more out of it, mate-attraction-wise, than I do as a female (which is not to say that there haven't been any men who have admired what I've accomplished).
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Yeah.
Perhaps.
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Hmm, I wonder if while she was pursuing her career, she viewed people w families as the failures, and that's why she feels they're judging her the same way now...
Perhaps if she didn't live her life for other people (her mom or the potential men she could attract), she could find happiness. It sounds like she doesn't know what she really wants. Her motives have come from everywhere but herself, and that's exactly where she's placing the blame.
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Not one has pitied me or pressured me, quite the opposite.
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for what that's worth! without knowing her work well, but understanding she's had some cool success & is otherwise a kinda tough chick, i just know my moody-ness affects my otherwise strong sense of pride some days! (i guess i'm hoping thats the case, anyway)
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the grass is always greener
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a man or child will make you 'happy'
i hate to quote Tolle but "relationships aren't here to make you happy or fulfilled they are here to make you conscious".
also, you should be happy BEFORE the kid lady. too much pressure on a little tyke to deliver.
02/10/09
Just one little nugget of wisdom I have finally admitted to myself.