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Drale

(7,932 posts)
Thu May 30, 2013, 01:49 PM May 2013

All-Male Fox Panel Laments Female Breadwinners



My response is good. Our society needs to be torn down and rebuilt and conservatives need to lose a generation that is the only way we are going to move forward. They see this is a bad thing, I look at it as a bright future. I really don't understand how any of these idiots ever get married or even get laid once in their lives the way they treat women.
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upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. This just throwing out red meat to the wing nuts
Thu May 30, 2013, 02:16 PM
May 2013

I see this more as play acting then any kind of reporting. I think none of them really care about the subject at all.
If a family has to live on the earnings of two bread winners I doubt it makes much difference who makes more. They need all the money they can get.

Drale

(7,932 posts)
3. O no these sexist bafoons truely due care
Thu May 30, 2013, 02:29 PM
May 2013

because "even the lowliest man is king over his women". Its their "god given right" to do what they will with their women and she should not work or do anything the man doesn't tell her to. This is one of the main tenants of "conservatism" today and one of the reasons women make less than men and their rights are constantly under attack.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
4. I agree that many men are like that but just these guys
Thu May 30, 2013, 02:37 PM
May 2013

on this show I think don't think these pundits really care. They may be just feeding the dimwits out there in TV land who do believe that.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. Erickson is a fucktard.
Thu May 30, 2013, 02:28 PM
May 2013

That asshat makes me want to vomit. Its not the hateful ideology of the right that I find so distasteful, its the continual stream of jackasses like him that they rally around that make me react so violently against their mere presence.

 

adieu

(1,009 posts)
6. There are many animal species where the female
Thu May 30, 2013, 02:53 PM
May 2013

takes on the dominant "breadwinning" role. First off, however, there are no other animal species that we know of that uses a monetary system. Some species have been trained to use a monetary system, like some monkeys, apes and birds, but there aren't any out in the wild as far as we can tell.

Secondly, there are many, many species where the female is the predominant leader in many categories. The big cats, lions, cheetahs and the like have the females do the hunting. The male lion just sits around and bangs the women when he feels like it.

So even when looking at nature, they're completely wrong on their stance.

When I first read about this story, I felt slightly bad, not because I'm male and see that I'm losing out to females, but because the US society was predominately male-hierarchical and women were given secondary-level jobs for the longest time, my conclusion wasn't that women were making gains, but that men were losing out on jobs to cheaper paid women. It wasn't that women were achieving the successes at the level of men, but that men were becoming expensive and it was more economical to hire women to do the job at 23% less pay.

That was my initial take on hearing the article. As it stands, being the breadwinner in a family, if nothing else, it should be 50-50 whether a family has a male breadwinner or a female breadwinner. Unless it's a same-sex marriage. Then, the whole concept of who is the top earner and who is the bottom earner is a different question altogether.

Crowman1979

(3,844 posts)
9. I dont't think any of these asswipes are under age 40.
Thu May 30, 2013, 05:04 PM
May 2013

Which gives me confidence that the right-wing has no youth left in it at all.

suzanner

(590 posts)
10. Where to begin on this kerfuffle they decided to talk about...
Thu May 30, 2013, 06:55 PM
May 2013

I would think it is so much more complicated than they can comprehend, they sound like adolescents. Why doesn't Juan just add that it's somehow Obama's fault? How did he go so far off the rails? Very disappointing.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
11. "I really don't understand how any of these idiots ever get married or even get laid"
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:09 PM
May 2013

Ya know what's really funny?

Seeing on the screen that this is their "A-Team".

ScottLand

(2,485 posts)
12. It's true that the male is the dominant one in all animal species.
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:38 AM
May 2013

One need only look at the praying mantis....okay, bad example...
One need only look at the queen bee....okay, scratch that too..

I guess we just need more data....

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