[VeritatisSplendor]

What a b----. "An educated, competent person's place is in the office." Get an ignorant fool to take care of your children, sure. Or fix your car, fine. Or make your car. Then you'll have something to complain about during your power lunch. And may the waitress spit in your soup.

Arrogant, elitist, senseless b----.

Mrs VS

[gogeo]

This is stunning stuff. In Hirshman's view, a woman's choice to deploy her "capacities for speech and reason" as a mother is not prudent or acceptable. Beyond this, she seems to demonstrate an inherent dislike for children in general, and infants in particular. She accuses stay at home moms of "bearing most of the burden of the work always associated with the lowest caste." She identifies these tasks as "sweeping and cleaning bodily waste," and condemned mothers who were described in a press account as "vigilantly watching their babies for signs of excretion 24-7" as "untouchables" by choice.

I've had a suspicion that the "jobs Americans don't want to do," are keeping house and caring for children.

[OldFriend]

I watched part of this on TV and could not believe what I was hearing.

Evidently the ugly old biddies are figuring out that they should have married and had children.

They want to denigrate those who realized the importance of being a mom.

A pox on their elitist claptrap.

[Bob Mc]

"An educated, competent person's place is in the office."

[Paulus Invictus]

In the large corporation where I worked for years, the very worst bosses were women. They simply could not understand how to handle the power of their position and made it obvious that they were incapable of communciating effectively with the men who reported to them. They were at their worst when in crisis situations and during certain lunar cycles.