My children hate me going to work. So why do I do it (apart from the dosh)... Like it or not, we mothers – working, or unpaid-at-home – are still carrying the practical and emotional burden of our children’s lives. The killer fact is: they bloody well love us for it. And while it makes them happy, we’ll keep on hugging, listening, playing, reading, talking, over-seeing homework, cooking, feeding and even pushing the odd swing. All we can hope is that by the time they’re adults, they won’t remember how often we went to work and they’ll be proud of their well-rounded mothers with interesting things to chat about. In the absence of anything better, that’s what we have to keep telling ourselves.This is pure solipsism, as the woman assigns to her young children her own values. Setting aside the foolish notion that working in an office makes a woman "well-rounded" or gives her "interesting things to chat about" - mordant laugh - what children give even a fractional quantum of a damn about those things.
Can you imagine if a father was foolish enough to try to justify depriving his children of money in the hopes that they'll be proud of how attractive his mistress is? That is how ridiculously stupid it sounds.
Given that she's quite attractive, my guess is that she likes to play dress-up and flirt with the executives at the office. Being an attention whore, she's simply not willing to give up the attention for anything as tediously demanding as her own children.
UPDATE: Actually, it's much worse than that. She's an outright fame whore.
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But few things would send me Sylvia Plath style to the gas oven more than a prolonged period of swing-pushing. Next time you’re in a playground, look into the eyes of those mothers monitoring their child's every move: it’s a portal of doom.
That paragraph struck me. She keeps saying she's in awe of women who take care of their own children, but her scorn is obvious. She's so above such tedious grunt work -- having such a lively and fascinating mind that needs constant stimulation, I'm sure -- that she's in awe of their ability to endure it, I guess. Classic humble-brag. What a freaking snob.
All the couples who are unable to conceive, plus the people who yearn to be parents but are too unattractive to find mates, should show up at this witch's door with torches and pitchforks. I'm not usually one to suggest that kids would be better off without their parents, even when they're terrible, but....when your own mother calls pushing you on a swing her idea of "doom," I start to wonder.
Another thing that strikes me is that sending girls to college has given us a generation of women who can string words together reasonably well, but who have nothing meaningful to say and can't follow a consistent train of thought for more than a few sentences at best. She probably thinks she's being profound and revealing here, when it's really one step up from a stream of consciousness.
Attention uber alles here, and tingle uber alles in the previous post.
Stories like this are all too common in a society that tells women to put their own immediate desires above all else -- even their own children.
"I know I am one of the fortunate ones for who work is a ‘choice’ not driven by a financial imperative."
Wretched woman. She willingly and knowingly chooses work over her own children, backhand compliments women who do stay home, and complains that her little ones want attention from their mother (re: observing her nanny pushing her child on the doom swing). Hope those PowerPoint presentations are worth those lost precious moments with her children while they still like her. She'll no doubt wonder why they don't want to visit much when they're adults.
Sorry VD but bad as that woman is, she is a piker compared to this woman.
This is quite possibly the funniest thing ever published by the New York Times. The first time through, I could not get past the orgasms.
Sometimes I would cry in Patrick’s arms, wailing, “But I don’t want to divorce you!” as if I had been sentenced to an unjust future without any say in the matter.
“You won’t,” he would say. “You don’t have to divorce me.”
Or there is this!
... I couldn’t take my eyes off his jeans, which were sagging at his butt. I said: “Your jeans are making me sick. It looks like you’re wearing a diaper.”
He gave me a look but didn’t get angry, despite my meanness. Then I went and cried in the museum’s dark hallways.
I must stress we are meant to sympathize with this woman's...I don't know plight I guess.
...and yet it was in Iowa that we taught ourselves how to cook mussels and how to drink red wine, and every Valentine’s Day
You would have to have a heart of stone, not to laugh at this woman.
Vox, are we sure it's the same woman in both pics. The chick in the nightie is SUPER-hot. Mummie is just quite nice looking.
@Cataline That article both have the drama/comedy masks as a watermark behind the text. How any man could stay with that bouquet of neuroses is beyond me. But maybe the old saying is true, the crazy ones are awesome in the sack.
On women working: There is not one field of work where women are required. Some people will say, "What about traditional female fields like teaching or nursing?" Men are better at both. If you've ever had the chance to do side-by-side comparisons you'd see that generally it's not even close. Men were the only teachers for thousands of years, its only with large scale government schooling that females became the majority. This is not to say that some women are not capable of doing a decent job, it's just that they are not necessary.
On closer study (ahem) I see that the nightie picture is from the year 2000. Splains that.
I hear that Cameron Diaz (age 41) is naked in her latest movie. Saw her in a movie from 1998 the other day. What a coincidence! 1998 is when I would have cared to see her naked.
1.) Where the hell is daddy in her family pic?
2.) The last link (http://snarkerati.com/profile_pics/Beverly-Turner.jpg)...she looks like a paid escort. Doing "Favors" to rich clients if you know what I mean!
But I'm sure we'd all agree that she's much more attractive now, being so much more well-rounded and able to chat about interesting things, compared to that boring younger version who had less to say.
Right? Guys?
"I know I am one of the fortunate ones for who work is a ‘choice’ not driven by a financial imperative."
In that case, she is definitely an idiot. The problem is, you cannot tell women like this anything, on account of the fact that mothers are not well rounded and have nothing interesting to chat about. Also we tend to be lazy, uneducated, and have done nothing of importance with our lives.
Slappers like that are good for nothing more than a deep, thorough fucking in the office after hours, or in the alley behind the wine bar. And what kind of female names her kids Croyde, Trixie and Kiki? WTF?!
If you have to work you have to work, that's fine.
If you don't have to work, invest your time in something that matters, like your children.
To the world you're only one person, but to one person you're the world.
" Like it or not, we mothers – working, or unpaid-at-home"
Dumb cunt. A stay-at-home mother is a $50-$90K a year job, tax-free at that, depending on where you live. Again, dumb cunt. Too stupid, and certainly way too prideful, to even begin to think (her brain flinch would be massive at just the thought) that she and all the Sisterhood have been totally hoodwinked by governments and feminists to become tax slaves and, even better, to leave the molding of their children's hearts, minds, and souls to the State. Good little girls. Keep wasting away in offices for years.
"The killer fact is: they bloody well love us for it."
No, they don't. And they won't. They won't keep one damned copy of your resume nor one copy of any of the power points, meeting notes, or budgets you put together. Neither will your one, two, or zero grandchildren. Who will also be likely cursing your name 'cause you were too busy trying to be Superwoman, for your own self-satisfying, vainglorious and materialistic ends, to understanding what was really happening in your day and age and to properly prepare them for the shitstorm you so haphazardly sent them out into.
"And while it makes them happy, we’ll keep on hugging, listening, playing, reading, talking, over-seeing homework, cooking, feeding and even pushing the odd swing."
Ha, the lie of multitasking. Which is also the lie of feminism (you can have it all, do it all, girl powrrrr) and afirmative action (you're smart). She has bought into that one big time. No, you are doing none of those things actually. You're doing them all very poorly and very superficially. Your kids will not know what real listening or attention means ,and will not know how to give it nor actually receive it from well-adjusted humans.
"they won’t remember how often we went to work and they’ll be proud of their well-rounded mothers with interesting things to chat about. In the absence of anything better, that’s what we have to keep telling ourselves."
The abject lack of imagination shown here is typicaly. Lack of imagination, curiosity, any sense or belief or vision of self-motivation in terms of broadening one's mind, interests, skills, or knowledge base. You could have a MILLION more interesting things to chat about with your children after having, oh, I don't know, read some books, taken courses, educated your kids (yes, even in things you knew nothing about beforehand), and on and on and on. Use your imagination.
This woman is a loser. Period. More women and girls need to be called out for being losers, not just guys. There are LOTS of loser women out there.
And what kind of female names her kids Croyde, Trixie and Kiki? WTF?!
My guess would be "a woman who hates her kids" (and yes, there are many such women out there).
You could have a MILLION more interesting things to chat about with your children
Besides, in my experience, kids will provide plenty of things to talk about. They're constantly asking how things work, what things mean, what things are, and so on. Even the quiet ones will wear you out with conversation once you get to know them.
Of course, you have to be able to respond to others' emotions and interests and find enjoyment in their enjoyment, like a normal human being. Who can't enjoy helping a kid make her first batch of brownies, or explaining to her where butterflies come from? The kind of person who looks down on everyone less educated than herself, who thinks people are useless if they can't appreciate her witty bon mots about Sylvia Plath, I guess.
@Jim - absolutely! My only caveat would be "mothering" professions like doulas, midwives, L&D nurses, and the like. I have no issue with male ob/gyns, but as a woman I know said to her husband "I just need someone with boobs to help me." With so few women teaching other women to love their children and keep their homes it's no wonder we're in a mess.
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