This is the attitude I hate
Posted by Mr. Thoughtful on August 25, 2008
I came across the following article by Margery Eagan in the Boston Herald. It’s about Michele Obama. I’m not going to address the presidential race or Michele Obama. I’m writing because of one sentence this woman wrote:
In my life she’s the sort of woman I love: blunt, tough, smart, sarcastic, a task-master. She tells her kids to make the beds and her husband to dump the garbage.
Imagine how women would react if a husband were admirably described in a magazine profile as a task-master telling his wife to make dinner. They would go ape-shit. But this kind of thing is ok because it’s a wife being the task-master. It’s a nasty double-standard.
And I don’t think it’s inconsequential. I think this sort of attitude, expressed in thousands of ways, in magazine articles, on “women’s TV shows”, and various other places, contributes to an anti-male attitude among women. They have become conditioned to the idea that anti-male attitudes are perfectly ok.
I think this affects their relations with their husbands and boyfriends. Perhaps this is what Mr. Practical and I have been getting at when discussing how women from many other countries don’t have the bad attitude that many US women have, and this makes the foreign women better wives.
Here’s a link to the article:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1114932
