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

[brooklynite]

Source: Buzzfeed

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.”

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

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He'll be here all week folks; remember to tip your waiter...

[LiberalLoner]

1. But most everyone here on DU tells me there is no war on women's rights.

That everything is settled and we need to stop squawking about our rights as women and instead focus only on economic justice.

If birth control, abortion, the right to vote or work or make economic choices have to be given up by us wimmins, hey it's all for the good of the party. Gotta win back that Reagan democrat old white fart in his recliner!

[Kelvin Mace]

8. To be fair

it isn't "most everyone at DU"

It is a clueless, misogynistic and vocal minority.

I really wish there were a "liberalunderground.com" because "Democratic" is a nebulous term, and as we have seen from the current administration, includes people to the right of Nixon.

[LiberalLoner]

10. Thank you for reminding me of that.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. I share your frustrtation

with that vocal minority and their enablers.

[Roland99]

15. Hear! Hear!

[Paladin]

2. "amorphously-hierarchical"???

Big words for a shit-for-brains like this guy. Has he designated which working woman was responsible for the Naval facility shootings?

[iandhr]

3. Wow they sure can pic em.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. *sigh*

[OneCrazyDiamond]

5. The same logic says

If the women were sent home there would be more domestic shootings.

I do agree with having a parent at home during the early development years of the children is healthy for society.
I also think a healthy society would have less mass shootings, but a dad/grandparent/sibling/aunt/uncle can be just as beneficial too.
It doesn't have to be mom's job.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Women shouldn't work for pay, but if they get foodstamps or welfare they're socialist leaches.

Thanks, GOP! Your brilliant philosophy shines once more.

[Lars39]

24. Next on the list: ability for women to own property.

Sarcasm, maybe.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Oh, yeah, this is THE GUY!

Belittles women and insults men all in the same sentence.

What is his message to men?

"New Hampshire males, DON'T fall over the edge!! Suck it up,
send women back to the kitchen, barefoot, and make them
bake cakes!! They YOU can have their job!!"

roflmao

[LiberalEsto]

11. I hope the poor man can get a mental health evaluation

once Obamacare kicks in.

[Squinch]

13. "Status success is more vital to the male psychology." I bet his next statement was

"Women are only really happy when caring for a home, a husband, and children. And maybe a dog and goldfish."

What a dipshit.

[LiberalLoner]

16. And that followed by "black people really liked slavery, they were happier!" He seems like

The disgusting piece of filth that would believe and say something like that.

[Squinch]

25. It keeps occurring to me whenever I read something like this, and realize there are

scads more like him who won't say it publicly but who feel the same way:

Women have managed to make changes in their self-perceptions to fit better with the reality of the modern world.

People of color have managed to make changes in their self-perceptions to fit better with the reality of the modern world.

When in the name of god are these "it-was-better-in-the-good-old-days" white middle aged men, and the women who serve them, going to change their self perceptions to fit better with the reality of the modern world?

We get it!!! They don't like the changes that no longer place them on third base at birth. We get that. But too bad, and they aren't on third base anymore. When are they just going to accept it???

[LiberalLoner]

26. I really do think there is more of this resistance in those my age and older, and

Less (but not absent) in the younger generations. I keep hoping passing time will make things better.

[surrealAmerican]

14. Wait a minute ...

... if the lack of "success" - as defined by earning enough to support a family - is the cause of workplace shootings, he must be a big supporter of raising the minimum wage, right?

[The Magistrate]

18. Nah, That Would Be Communism, Ma'am....

[Ash_F]

17. That makes no sense Jim. Go back to school. /nt

[FLyellowdog]

19. Who's with me?

This is exactly why I particularly support the portion of Obamacare that mandates every male who purchases a boatload of firearms receive the “Testosterone Transition Vaccine“ which results in said males becoming chemically castrated and forever lobotomized. A male's psychology will no longer be a problem.

Easy peasy.

Just tryin' to help, folks.

[Koko Ware]

20. Another winner there, New Hampshire.. do they do way too much meth up there?

One more for the gene pool reduction, sir.

[blkmusclmachine]

21. ?!

[tanyev]

22. How does he know it wasn't caused by the disappearance of cathode ray tubes?

Maybe those tubes emitted some sort of calming radiation and now that they're gone, we're screwed.

Makes as much sense as his theory.

[llmart]

23. "males are falling over the edge in increasing numbers"

Sorry, but that line made me laugh out loud and have a not-so-nice reply such as "one can only hope".

[Thinkingabout]

27. We could easily say the ease of purchasing weapons has resulted on an increase in mass

Shootings.

[Dawson Leery]

28. To State Senator Jim Rubens(R-Peyton Place) "Free trade" and Greed

are why we have a job crisis. The Republican religious war on women will not go without a response.