backlash.com - May 2003

 

A cup always half empty!

Sometimes, it really is about discrimination, but sometimes it's about the unwanted consequences of personal choices.

by Rod Van Mechelen
Copyright © 2003 by Rod Van Mechelen, All Rights Reserved.
May be copied, distributed, or posted on the Internet for non-profit purposes only.
Posted May 5, 2003

Rod Van Mechelen, publisher

Unwanted consequences

          According to the dour whiners at the American Association of University Women, despite victories in higher education, women are still "stuck":

"Women are more educated, more employed, and employed at higher levels today than ever before, but they are still largely pigeonholed in 'pink-collar' jobs, according to the new American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation report, Women at Work."


          Of course, this has nothing to do with women's choices. It never does. Typically, the feminists call it an "inequity" and attribute it to women's victimization:

"It's not that women are hitting a glass ceiling in the high-tech sector. It's that they don't have the keys to open the door." - Mary Ellen Smyth, President of the AAUW Educational Foundation

          The truth is, in some cases it's about inequity and victimization, but more often it's simply about women exercising that most feminist of rights, personal choice. But because these choices don't produce the results they want, the anti-male bigots see it as a cup half empty rather than half full, and demand social programs to force women to make ideologically correct choices.

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