Posted on 09/20/2008 9:52:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just when you thought that legislative, judicial, law-enforcement, media, and reproductive biases in favor of women were the epitome of double standards, there is new evidence that “life control” is increasingly shifting to the female domain: in four years, women also will rule men financially. Remember this the next time the waiter brings the check to your table, and your woman insists that YOU pay it — or worse, you acquiesce.
By 2010, women will own all the power points of society. According to a new study by Allianz, a mammoth-sized financial-services firm, women in that year will control 60% of US wealth (Allianz news release displayed below). Here are the other critical Allianz findings:
Today there are one-third more women graduating from college than men. Women’s median income has increased 60%+ over the past thirty years, while men’s median income has hardly increased at all. The number of women earning $100,000+ has quadrupled in last decade. Sixty percent of women with business degrees outearn their husbands. Women account for half of all stock-market investors. What’s laughable is that, despite the professional and financial gains women have made and continue to make, Allianz indicates that they’re still unhappy! If you’re surprised, read my article, “If Women Were Happy,” to understand why.
Where’s this wealth coming from? Here are five common sources of female wealth:
Wages, business earnings, and investments Family inheritance Becoming widowed at a young age Lucrative divorce settlements, alimony, and child support Being wined, dined, vacationed, and bejeweled during the dating process. This Allianz announcement should be a big wakeup call to men. As I have been exhorting for some time, you must rethink the way you relate to women: View them as peers and refuse to tolerate their attitudes of entitlement and demands for special privileges and deferential treatment.
Little by little, women have been eating your lunch, literally and figuratively. And, it’s YOUR fault. Why? Because you have equated your money with your masculinity. You have believed that women are the weaker sex, that your mission in life is to take care of them. Well, the numbers tell a different story. Now that the power clock is running out, it’s time to equate chivalry with impotence — not power. Any man who continues to play ostrich by ignoring this admonition does so at his own peril.
Women are graduating from college in higher numbers than you. At a rising rate, they will outearn you. They make most of the household-spending decisions. They match you in stock ownership. And, four years from now, they will control most of the money in this country (to learn more about women in the US workplace, read from the US Department of Labor: Women’s Bureau). How much longer will you wait to act?
To err through commission is one thing, but failing to act is the biggest sin of all. Look at the situation in Iran. How many times over the past few years has sabre-rattling Iran promised to negotiate about curtailing its nuclear capability and then announce that it won’t negotiate? Too many to count. All the while, naive, head-in-the-sand Uncle Sam hoped for the best. Hope is not a strategy. Proof: Today, Iran test-fired a new submarine-to-surface missile during war games in the Persian Gulf. It won’t be long before such missiles are nuclear, when it will be too late for Uncle Sam to act. Then, the power of the world will unalterably shift. See any parallels?
How will our society look in 2010? I envision acrimony between men and women to skyrocket, resulting in an even-larger number of men refusing to get married and the out-of-wedlock birthrate to continue climbing unabated (already 35% for whites and 70% for blacks). The solution is so simple — men and women treat each other as peers — yet so few are interested in solving anything. They’d rather destroy each other in family courts. During all the battling, unfortunately, men are losing their power and influence.
Since 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet. Last week, it was demoted to dwarf status. Do you still think that wining & dining women makes you Master of the Universe? Think again, pal.
Hey, at least they are working. I know a lot of women who do nothing but shop all day and end up divorcing the man and bilk him for all he is worth.
My wife has been in charge since 1986.
Works for me...
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