December 10, 2009
— Ace Yes, really, but it's not quite that bad. Under the headline:
The Recession's Sliver Lining
Ah. Yet another silver lining.
The headline is decidedly insensitive, but the article is slightly less so. I assume.
To be honest I don't know what the hell it's about; it's a typically confused feminist screed about something or other. I don't really know. Ask this guy, maybe he does. I assume the headline was just intended to be a catchy, provocative little "pun" or something, probably about how men can really help working moms in these tough economic times. (What does that have to do with unemployed families then, I wonder?)
But notice how aggressive and insensitive they were willing to be to the unemployed to sell their story.
The headline has since been changed, apparently -- now it's Families Need to Man Up.
Isn't it funny that Newsweek takes this position when the unemployed are not a club to be used against a president they disfavor, but instead a source of problems for a president they do favor.
Notice how quickly their view of such people shifts from sympathetic to hostile.
Again, I have no idea really what this article says. I did in fact attempt to read it and saw a great amount of whining by a woman about balancing job and family.
What is she talking about? Look, you guys pay me a salary, but you don't pay me enough to figure out what this addledpated harpy is going on about.
The key thing for me is the headline -- Man Up, Losers -- and of course that silver-lining subhed.
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Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 10, 2009 03:58 PM (vKdhq)
Posted by: Addle-pated Harpies Union Local 457 at December 10, 2009 03:58 PM (92zkk)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at December 10, 2009 03:59 PM (mGSN1)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at December 10, 2009 04:01 PM (ympAm)
I think a lot of people are in fact going to do exactly just that, man up. I have a feeling they'll start by voting the "most ethical Congress evah !" out of existence.
Posted by: Blazer at December 10, 2009 04:01 PM (+FzLa)
Who's the man now? You vaginas can't even cut it as bosses. What makes you think you can handle my hard sciences?
Posted by: Larry Summers at December 10, 2009 04:01 PM (GtYrq)
Posted by: Intrepid at December 10, 2009 04:02 PM (92zkk)
GET ME MY SAMWICH, BITCH
Posted by: Dennis R. Kneale at December 10, 2009 04:03 PM (PWj+8)
Posted by: alexthechick at December 10, 2009 04:05 PM (nwTNa)
--Seriously Ace, what would you expect from that rag? Birds even refuse to waste their shit on it.
Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2009 04:06 PM (I3Udb)
Posted by: ushie at December 10, 2009 04:06 PM (1kwr2)
Posted by: Newsweek at December 10, 2009 04:07 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: charles gasparino at December 10, 2009 04:09 PM (GtYrq)
Posted by: toby928 at December 10, 2009 04:09 PM (PD1tk)
Who's the man now? You vaginas can't even cut it as bosses. What makes you think you can handle my hard sciences?
Posted by: Larry Summers at December 10, 2009 08:01 PM (GtYrq)
--Funny how they phrased that question. I think most decent people, men and women, are more worried about work obligations interfering with family.
Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2009 04:10 PM (I3Udb)
Posted by: Kathleen Deveny at December 10, 2009 04:11 PM (GtYrq)
Unless it's a conservative in the Oval Office, then it's "Oh you poor, ill-treated victims! How horrible that the nasty rich republicans stole your job!"
Posted by: Intrepid at December 10, 2009 04:11 PM (92zkk)
Posted by: David in San Diego at December 10, 2009 04:11 PM (GF+6V)
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at December 10, 2009 04:11 PM (+3fAP)
But here's this nugget;
"Which means that when I have to take my daughter to the pediatrician or cut out early to attend her school's winter concert, I will probably lie and say I have to go to my own doctor instead. I am lucky to have reasonably flexible work hours, and an extremely flexible boss. But in an era of rampant job insecurity, it seems indefensible to request time off to hear my kid sing an Italian folk song—or get her a flu shot. Wouldn't that time be better spent doubling my productivity or developing new revenue streams?"
She is telling us to man up, but she can't tell the truth? That is pretty much what "manning up" is, at least when I was coming up that's what it meant.
I wonder if she has any idea she she just ratted on herself in a national publication? And by national publication I mean probably about 4 people read it.
Posted by: Blazer at December 10, 2009 04:13 PM (+FzLa)
You bet. During the Bush years, the MSM was quick to find the downside of every economic upturn, the classic being "low unemployment is bad because it means that less people are looking for work." Now in the age of Prof. HopenChange, his media acolytes are sifting through the turds for stray corn kernels.
Posted by: OregonMuse at December 10, 2009 04:14 PM (tClfg)
men featured rising status batteris and familes now available cheap for labor
Posted by: Laptop Battery at December 10, 2009 04:16 PM (q177U)
Man up all you...men!
While I continue to whine about how unfair it all is that I have to choose between work and family -- what with my flexible hours and permissive bosses.
Lady, you make me freaking sick! You tone deaf, spoiled rotten...$#%#$%^#%^#%. You have no idea what the real world is really like.
Posted by: unknown jane, former and would like to be presently working mom at December 10, 2009 04:19 PM (5/yRG)
Hey, out of work parents ! Send your children to the coal mines or sweatshops. If your not gonna work, at least get someone in your family to.
Now get to crackin', it takes money to buy our magazine.
Posted by: Newsweak at December 10, 2009 04:19 PM (+FzLa)
All I got out of it was...OK, I confess, I got nothing. It was incoherent babble. Its only value was in demonstrating this imbecilic bint should be joining the ranks of the unemployed or working as porn fluffer where no mental capacity is required.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 10, 2009 04:20 PM (yckbe)
Men rising batteries, families available for....
or
Featured batteries now for....
Posted by: Intrepid at December 10, 2009 04:22 PM (92zkk)
Posted by: dagny at December 10, 2009 04:22 PM (GsR6T)
Its only value was in demonstrating this imbecilic bint should be joining the ranks of the unemployed or working as porn fluffer where no mental capacity is required.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 10, 2009 08:20 PM (yckbe)
She probably couldn't shut her yap up long enough to fluff. Get fired the first day.
Andrea Mitchell, Susan Roesgen, Maureen Dowd and now this twit. All cut from the same wretched cloth.
Posted by: Blazer at December 10, 2009 04:23 PM (+FzLa)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 10, 2009 04:29 PM (yckbe)
(It's kind of scary when the laptop battery 'bot makes more sense than some of you other morons.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at December 10, 2009 04:31 PM (uEZYD)
There's been one of "San Diego's Finest Derelicts" here in my part of town for years. He's still a fixture. Then again where I live in a Red portion of the People's Republic of California.
Posted by: David in San Diego at December 10, 2009 04:32 PM (GF+6V)
Posted by: runningrn at December 10, 2009 08:14 PM (vEclT)
--I have heard that it is only Seattle area stores. Correct?
Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2009 04:33 PM (I3Udb)
Posted by: unknown jane, former and would like to be presently working mom at December 10, 2009 04:34 PM (5/yRG)
Do you think it will help?
Posted by: MarkD at December 10, 2009 04:36 PM (nur8S)
Posted by: wherestherum at December 10, 2009 04:37 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: Girl Thursday at December 10, 2009 04:40 PM (mrc1E)
Posted by: Old Sailor at December 10, 2009 05:10 PM (/Ft4q)
Working mothers spend 60 percent more time each day on child care and household tasks than employed fathers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Why do they always include this one, but leave out the fact that the men commute farther, work longer hours, and travel more? That's right, honey, I can't take little princess to the doctor tomorrow. Because I'll be in FUCKING CHICAGO.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 10, 2009 05:15 PM (XIXhw)
Thanks for the headsup, I wrote them a nastygram pointing out (among other things) that the WSJ is doing relatively fine, because it is the Journal of Record for grownups.
(Sura 2:29)
Posted by: 7HEAVENS at December 10, 2009 05:15 PM (lleUK)
Oh, and that she thinks working moms need to let go of the idea that they have to attend every single school party, play, and function.
Posted by: Nicole at December 10, 2009 05:20 PM (n032s)
Why do they always include this one, but leave out the fact that the men commute farther, work longer hours, and travel more? That's right, honey, I can't take little princess to the doctor tomorrow. Because I'll be in CHICAGO.
I'll be accused of being sexist again but as the mother, I want to take my children to the doctor because I know the exact number of hours they have had the cough or limp or rash or whatever, which shots they have had and when and what symptoms their brothers had a week ago. My husband is wonderful, loves them but not in such excruciating detail. I consider the specific welfare of my children my primary responsibility and the general welfare of the family his. The burdens are divided and it works.
Posted by: dagny at December 10, 2009 05:38 PM (GsR6T)
Posted by: TonyRezko at December 10, 2009 05:42 PM (L9FHf)
The mens is outta work and we deserves it?
Well.
Once I'm in a position of authority again (and I will be), I'll make sure to fire a couple of random bints. Just for shits and giggles.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 10, 2009 05:43 PM (P33XN)
We really appreciate your hard work at not working at the end of 08 (specifically in September & October of 0
. We really do. But you've done your job, so to speak. Now go home & get a real job or go back to school (you've seen those ads - Obama wants YOU to go back to school!).
Do it before we call you racist for making our guy look bad.
Posted by: The MSM at December 10, 2009 05:49 PM (4iIhs)
They decided to be an "essay journal for the upscale reader", you know, the navel gazers who shit Tiffany cuffllinks.
Clueless and out of touch doesn't even begin to describe these shitstains of print journalism, yet somehow they are supposed to hold the keys to the castles of wisdom that will lead us to the promised world
Posted by: kbdabear at December 10, 2009 05:52 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 10, 2009 09:52 PM (sYxEE)
Yeah, the dolts at "Editor and Publisher" tried that model. The only difference was that their regurgitated talking points were packaged for other journalists.
"Editor and Publisher" folded today.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at December 10, 2009 06:03 PM (wgLRl)
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I guess Newsweak ain't paying for therapy sessions any more...the "writers" have to unload their "issues" in the current issue now instead.
Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny at December 10, 2009 06:13 PM (KWhJd)
Posted by: Ripley at December 10, 2009 06:56 PM (orbdz)
A year ago, Newsweek had an aneurysm over Phil Gramm talking about "whiners" and how we were in a "mental recession", reaching new rhetorical heights and synonym levels for "insensitive" and "stupid".
http://tinyurl.com/yk4qkxr
And now that Teleprompter Jesus is demonstrating that his only knowledge or capability in regard to the economy is Being Black, suddenly calling people whiners and saying they need to snap out of it is suddenly the highest wisdom.
Posted by: North Dallas Thirty at December 10, 2009 08:10 PM (X0n95)
Posted by: Quicklime at December 10, 2009 09:04 PM (mUWtG)
Anti-War apologies for Islam? Check!
Climate propaganda? Check!
Pandering to revisionist history on Native peoples? Check!
The Oscar goes to Bluebama.
Posted by: DANEgerus at December 10, 2009 09:52 PM (LMi2C)
If woman can't juggle work and family without the assistance of the father -- what sorts of idiots are single mothers by choice?
Posted by: mischief at December 11, 2009 10:13 AM (YBNwI)
Posted by: Rich at December 11, 2009 11:50 AM (rwaz7)
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