Armenian lesbians/gays

[Siggie]

Re: Armenian lesbians/gays

Free will... meaning by choice, women prefer to enter fields other than those ones. Statistics can't be sexist, can they?




"Among the employed population 25 and older, 37 percent of women had attained a bachelor's degree or more as of 2010, compared with 35 percent of men"

What I said - more men take jobs that don't require a degree - CHECK

Uhh.... No. That statistic is about all employed people and 35 is not really different than 37 anyway. Also, this is about bachelor degrees. What about Associates degrees? Certificates? Trade schools?

If this was the case, then husbands would be working to feed, clothe, house you, the kids and pay for your school. Hey, let's still bash men while we're at it cause it's obvious they are the problem.

I'm explaining how these rigid gender roles that Mos, Levon, and as far as I can tell, you too, are advocating can explain such a disparity if one actually exists.

One of the girls in the office was able to get a boob job because her husband's salary as a dentist paid for it. What was the point of this sentence?

It's an example. I was making the point that if we didn't encourage men to be the "breadwinner" and women to be "homemakers," then the reverse of what you were complaining about (i.e. the example I gave) would be possible as well.

[KanadaHye]

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It's an example. I was making the point that if we didn't encourage men to be the "breadwinner" and women to be "homemakers," then the reverse of what you were complaining about (i.e. the example I gave) would be possible as well.

Just how pregnant is too pregnant to be working strenuously? In Canada, both men and women can take maternity leave.. what's the law in progressive, liberal, America? Technically, men make the home, the women are just supposed to maintain it.

[Flamenkita]

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One of the girls in the office was able to get a boob job because her husband's salary as a dentist paid for it. What was the point of this sentence?

Probably she felt she had to get a boob job to keep her dentist of a husband interested enough not to stray?

Maybe after nursing babies (something that one cannot put a pricetag on), her boobs were kind of sagging?

He paid for it because he likes bigger boobs?

He paid for it because she doesn't have direct access to money and doesn't have a paying job because she is doing the job of raising kids and running a house? By some estimates, if she we're getting paid for everything she does at home, and for the hours she puts in, she would easily be clearing $150k a year, if not more. So, in a way, she did pay for a boob job that, all else being equal, she might not have felt the need for.

[KanadaHye]

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By some estimates, if she we're getting paid for everything she does at home, and for the hours she puts in, she would easily be clearing $150k a year, if not more. So, in a way, she did pay for a boob job that, all else being equal, she might not have felt the need for.

I've heard this one before. Reminds me of odars who pay the mother in law to babysit the grandchildren.

[Mos]

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I've heard this one before. Reminds me of odars who pay the mother in law to babysit the grandchildren.

Seriously? That's horrible.

[Flamenkita]

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Seriously? That's horrible.

Slave labor (working for no pay) is horrible, too.

And the other thing that's horrible is when mothers-in-law become resentful of having to raise their son's children (because they resent their daughters in law, for any number of reasons), and they do a cr@ppy job of it.

[Flamenkita]

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Believe me. Unpaid childcare is definitely not what it's cracked up to be. Sometimes you don't get what you don't pay for, even if it seems you are. I'd take good, paid help over unpaid help from relatives any day of the week.

[Mos]

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Slave labor (working for no pay) is horrible, too.

And the other thing that's horrible is when mothers-in-law become resentful of having to raise their son's children (because they resent their daughters in law, for any number of reasons), and they do a cr@ppy job of it.

Slave labour? So taking care of your own grandchildren is slave labour?

[Flamenkita]

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Slave labour? So taking care of your own grandchildren is slave labour?

For some, yes, it is. Childcare is hard, hard work. It is often repetitive, and tedious. It is, by definition, a labor of love. Have you had the opportunity to spend a whole week with an infant or a small child. I recommend it to all who are planning on having children. I am sure that many teen pregnancies would not happen if young people really knew what parenting truly involves.

[KanadaHye]

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For some, yes, it is. Childcare is hard, hard work. It is often repetitive, and tedious. It is, by definition, a labor of love. Have you had the opportunity to spend a whole week with an infant or a small child. I recommend it to all who are planning on having children. I am sure that many teen pregnancies would not happen if young people really knew what parenting truly involves.

Teen pregnancies would not happen if parents knew what parenting truly involves.