Posted on 04/29/2019 4:43:27 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Last week, after an especially long day and an “epic” tantrum from her 3-year-old, Sarah Buckley Friedberg, a Massachusetts mother of three, posted on Facebook a mock ‘to-do list‘ that society expects of mothers today. The ending was inspired:
“I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to lean OUT. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.”
Friedberg’s post went viral. But in just a few weeks most people will have forgotten about the article. Don’t be one of those people. Instead, do as Friedberg suggests.
Lean out
Reading Friedberg’s post took me back in time to the very first book I wrote, some 20 years ago now after the birth of my first child—before I’d had a second child and my writing for the subsequent five years amounted to whatever blog post I could squeak out when I wasn’t falling over drop dead from exhaustion—on the absurd idea that women can and should raise children and pursue careers simultaneously.
It also reminded me of Tina, a mother of three children under six who’s profiled in my upcoming book, Women Who Win at Love. Every time I hear Tina talk about her life, my heart breaks because I know the reality looks nothing like the mirage.
Like most women her age, Tina absorbed the idea that “balancing” full-time work with young children is just what women do and must therefore be manageable.
Her chaotic life proves otherwise. Like most families in which both parents work full time and year-round, Tina and her husband live what can only be described as a rat race. For starters, every day they must decide who’s going to schedule their work life in such a way as to accommodate the children’s needs. That alone sounds exhausting.
(Excerpt) Read more at suzannevenker.com ...
Re: the lies FemiNazis have pushed on young women: Even Nanzi Botoxly has said “You can’t have it all, not all at the same time.”
GAD, I can’t believe I agree with the Botoxed B*tch about something! GAG, EWW, SPIT!!!!
Lean out? Is that similar to falling over or out of a car?
“Lean Out, Ladies”
Is that the opposite of lean in...on this?
“Part of it was made up by frat boys...”
I doubt that.
Maybe it’s YOU who’s making things up?
Lean out??
WTH does that even mean?
Somebody wrote a book for women in the business world, entitled “Lean In” (that’s the one that gave us such pearls of wisdom as “It’s a jungle gym, not a ladder”). Basically, it was a business self-help book about “leaning in” to corporate culture. Then somebody else wrote a book for feminists in the business world, entitled “Lean Out”, which is a business self-help book about not being part of a corporate culture (”lean out” being the opposite of “lean in”).
“Lean Out” is also a diet pill that most likely works by giving the user side effects that could occur include bloating, stomachaches, nausea, headaches, and dizziness.
I’m not yet sure if the naming of the book is coincidental or if the product warnings somehow got switched.
Oh.
Thanks!
Lean out ==> lose some flab.
Women whine.
Men don’t.
Tha’s what I thought the headline meant.
“Come on ladies - let’s lose that weight!” (Said in my best Richard Simmons’ voice).
i know some whiny men.
I did a master's thesis on how this disaster came about. It's going to take a miracle and a Judeo-Christian religious revival to turn it back around. But let me just throw a few things out there:
1) Churches and synagogues must develop and require classroom marriage prep courses before agreeing to marry a couple;
2) IRS automatically divides the income credits between husband and wife for all couples who register a stay-at-home parent year by year; and
3) Community colleges should have low-cost, for-credit continuing education for mothers around what was once known as "home economics." I have a friend who majored in this back in the 60s, married and had kids right out of college, and turned it into a career as an IRS agent (I know; don't flame me) from age 45 to 65 after her kids were all in high school. Now she has a nice gubmit pension.
The point is that even Ivy League universities used to support family and even gave marriage and parenting classes, before all hell broke loose. Today, any sort of practical education is given at community college levels. But those credits do count towards getting a master's in many instances. Community colleges need to develop these pipelines from motherhood to re-employment, with job fairs and career counseling. for moms whose kids are late adolescents, away at college or emancipated. There are so many ways also, these days, to work with other women from home, online, if entrepreneurs have practical business learning and advice.
“IRS automatically divides the income credits between husband and wife for all couples who register a stay-at-home parent year by year”
Do you mean for social security purposes?
You can’t have it all, PERIOD... Man or Woman.. anyone telling you this is a LIAR.
Your gender does not matter.
Yes. This would really help in the unfortunate instance of an empty-nest or late-life divorce, which does happen -- the stay-at-home's credits would be higher and she/he wouldn't have to spend money on a lawyer suing for a portion of them.
Men don’t.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Well, maybe. But in my book, you know some people with male parts that whine. You don’t know any whiny MEN. And you can tell them I said so.
hey, i agree. Nothing is more obnoxious than a whiny ( like a b!&@$) male.
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