New Hampshire Senate Candidate: More Women In The Workplace Led To More Mass Shootings

[boston bean]

WASHINGTON — Former New Hampshire state Sen. Jim Rubens is jumping into the race to defeat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Wednesday. Before he even reaches the starting blocks, Democrats are questioning his ability to reach women voters.
The reason? A 2009 post on his website that connects the rise of working women with what he says is a rise in mass shootings and other violence perpetrated by men.

“The collaborative, flexible, amorphously-hierarchical American economy is shutting out ordinary men who were once the nation’s breadwinners in living-wage labor and manufacturing jobs,” Rubens wrote. “Because status success is more vital to the male psychology, males are falling over the edge in increasing numbers.”

A “collaborative” and “flexible” economy is one that has opened the door to more women working, Rubens wrote. And the nature of the changing economy has had a detrimental effect on men, including an increase in violence.

“The collapsing number of male jobs in the increasingly female-centric economy just adds to the already harsher impact of OverSuccess on males,” he wrote, referring to the title of his 2008 book.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/new-hampshire-senate-candidate-more-women-in-the-workplace-l

Do I really need to comment? OK, you are one sick puppy, Jim Rubens.

[cali]

1. What the hell is in the water in NH?

They have more than their per capita share of wing nuts- that's certain.

[boston bean]

2. I'm almost ashamed to think of them as part of New England.

Just kidding, but that live free or die state has some issues.

[bunnies]

13. And people wonder where the term "masshole" comes from.

Just kidding! Dont make me come down there.

[Dash87]

3. It's an extremely rural state. It's the army of trees there.

You can drive for miles in mazes of trees, and it can feel disorienting at times.

NH is a gorgeous state, though. I would say it looks like real New England - still undeveloped in areas and small towns.

If I had to move somewhere in NE, I would probably pick either there, Vermont, or Maine. All beautiful and full of decent people despite the nuts you see in the news.

[cali]

6. I live in Vermont not far from the NH border

and I know the state well. Vermont is very, very different politically and socially from NH- (also visually, believe it or not)

Vermont is more rural than NH and fifty times more progressive, so your explanation holds no water,

[bunnies]

14. Dont you hate it when...

your horse pulls your buggy off the road due to tree-disorientation? Now if youll excuse me, some of the girls from the town are stopping by to help me sew my fancy new dress! Only so much time before the sun goes down and leaves us all in the dark, ya know.

[Dash87]

16. Ohhhh! You're so cool!

[bunnies]

19. Ill be happy to make you a fancy new dress too...

If ya want.

aint much else to do up here in New Hampsha!

[piratefish08]

15. I lived in NH my whole life until our move to VT 2 years ago and agree with you 100%

[Dash87]

17. I haven't been there much, so you probably know better, then.

I remember it was pretty rural in some areas, so maybe I just remember those. It's seemed more rural than lower New England. Some parts, that is.

[whopis01]

22. arsenic.

http://des.nh.gov/organization/commissioner/pip/factsheets/dwgb/documents/dwgb-3-2.pdf

[hobbit709]

4. The problem with extreme stupid is that it's not immediately, excruciatingly painful to the stupid.

If it was, there'd be less of it. Unfortunately it's only painful to the observer.

[madrchsod]

5. sounds like the boy has WWDS

other than massive doses of medications i`m not sure if he can be cured.

[Rex]

7. So women should go back to standing naked in the kitchen?

Waiting all day for a man to come home and tell them what to do?

Jim, you are fucking clueless...good luck, you already lost the sanity vote.

[stevenleser]

8. Classic example of the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc logical fallacy. Correlation != Causation

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/post-hoc.html

Millions of things have occurred after women started to enter the workplace in larger numbers. Very few of them related.

[raccoon]

9. Seems llike global warming started then....:silly: nt

[stevenleser]

10. OMG, I was going to use that very example! LMAO.

[Nay]

11. Translation: "Women able to support themselves are no longer under the thumb of their 'ordinary men'

husbands, which makes those husbands become violent with other people instead of just slapping around or verbally attacking the wife and kids for recreation."

Women, of course, should resume their age-old occupation of punching bag so violent men have some sort of release besides shooting up a theatre, workplace, etc.

[Orrex]

12. And all this time I've been blaming teh gayz

I just don't know who to scapegoat anymore.

[Sissyk]

18. Yes,

he is one sick puppy!

[IronLionZion]

20. I guess women don't work in Canada, Europe, and other developed countries

that don't have as much domestic terrorism mass shootings as we do. Damn those uppity women don't leave any other choice.

Some folks do like to blame their career problems on new entrants to the workforce who were previously shut out, like minorities and women, and disabled, etc.

[gopiscrap]

21. God, I hope this fool doesn't get elected!