cheers
September 22, 2005, 12:34am
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<p>Here’s a laugh:</p>
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When the British Medical Journal dispensed with its bedside manner last week and accused women of delaying childbirth to advance their careers, it was surely looking down the wrong microscope. The doctors may be right that women are risking heartbreak if they wait until their mid-thirties to conceive. But criticising them for defying nature is absurd, when that is what doctors do, heroically, almost every day. Long live technology and the C-section. Technology is our last resort because it is mostly men, not women, who are trying to have it all. </p>
<p>It is men who are notching up as many promotions, flings and business trips as they can before submitting to the drag anchor of family life. It is men who say theyd like to settle down and have a family, but not yet. There are too many women for whom yet has come to mean never, because they hung around hoping, while he always knew hed have a second chance with a younger model. For all feminisms achievements, the trophy wife is alive and perma-tanned and coming to a location uncomfortably near you. </p>
<p>…Of course my friends have careers you dont have much choice if youre not a Smug Married.
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dke
September 22, 2005, 6:38am
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<p>looks like things haven’t changed much since I was single in NYC in the 70’s! Too bad…but I think women play into men having it all…they let men get away with it…don’t make demands for commitments, etc.</p>