Posted on 12/28/2013 12:05:41 PM PST by Kaslin
Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, has found women’s secret to happiness: be conservative.
Political junkies might be interested to learn that conservative women are particularly blissful: about 40 percent say they are very happy. That makes them slightly happier than conservative men and significantly happier than liberal women. The unhappiest of all are liberal men; only about a fifth consider themselves very happy.
Brooks’ findings come from the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, a survey of Americans conducted since 1972, which the author says has produced consistent and reliable findings for decades.
In the New York Post, Ramesh Ponnuru writes about another interesting discovery relating to the “happiness” spectrum:
“Women who say they have turned down a promotion or made some other work sacrifice for the sake of their families report high happiness levels.”
I guess that debunks feminists’ insistence that women should put their careers first. Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book called Lean In, encouraging women to reach for more leadership roles at the office. This is something to be admired, of course, but not to the extent that it engenders maternal neglect.
One writer at the New York Times loved Sandberg's book, explaining how it encouraged women not to “hold themselves back” in their careers. So, apparently choosing to be a more visible mother instead of overseeing more employees is “holding one’s self back?”
Yes, children can often produce just as many headaches as a day at the office, but the difference is the former can be cured with a hug. Instead of focusing on children as burdens, we should focus on the joy they bring to growing families. The bond between a woman and her child is stronger than any bond she can have with her office cubicle.
This is just one of the differences conservative women seem to understand.
The Washington Post is casting doubt on Brooks' theory, but to some, the writer's research may not be all that surprising – especially considering some liberals nowadays always seem to be angry about something and offended by everything. Whether it’s Chris Matthews yelling at the TV screen every night or left-wing feminists aggressively arguing we "don't need anymore male leaders" and that Republican leadership will somehow roll back women's rights, conservatives are looking friendlier than ever.
Liberals are angry all the time. Duh.
I don’t think that anyone here on FR needed a survey to give us this information. We already knew that conservatives both male & female are happier.
It is very stressful to be a liberal/progressive woman, always on the lookout so as not to miss something that she might find offensive...
Reply of the day and so true. I learned the hard way---2 divorces and 3 houses===Then I met my present wife who is conservative. We're on year 22 and I couldn't be happier. (I'm pretty sure she feels the same)
FMCDH(BITS)
Get one of these:
One of these:
One of these:
And you, too can get one of these, typical liberal womyn:
I only know one liberal woman who is happy.
I know I am.
All those liberal women I work with are an angry bunch.
They just spew out political garbage and never seem to be content.
Ironically, her father is a businessman, likely conservative, who also did quite well and not only gave her a free four-year ride at an exclusive university but footed some $50,000 to give her a first class wedding. His reward is to have her embarrass him at family functions with all her talk about anti-capitalism and other leftist causes.
It's amazing how so many trust-funded liberal women have a "big Daddy" behind them to keep them in Volvos and expensive jewelry. They speak out against capitalism but they have no problem enjoying the spoils of it.
mark
The masculine pant wearing semi hairy liberal women of coarse is not happier becuase her wimpey dress wearing suberviant husband is a better looking woman than she and is at a cross dressers party without her
Agree.
I have never seen a liberal ANYTHING that was even remotely happy.
I live near a community that normally has a voter turnout around 90% and votes 78% (or more) democrat. I can say from experience it is not a happy place. I don’t know what makes liberals so angry, but they just don’t seem like friendly or happy people.
You would be PO’d too, if you were self restricted to one sheet of one ply TP.
It’s probably they nature, like lying is.
Thanks to “one sheet sheryl crowe”.
Like any other liberal woman, she’ll tell you what’s good for you and still loathe you for it.
Fantastic post!
You'd have to check Stormfront to find rhetoric over on the far, far right as harsh and vindictive as the average GLAAD or NARAL press release.
What's amazing is that Pew's Sociology Survey has discovered that those selfsame super-liberal (or, rather, "Prog" -- their "liberalism" has nothing in common with, say, Adlai Stevenson) women are the most-educated demographic they looked at. Lots of them have MA or even Ph.D. degrees. And relatively few of them have a man.
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