Truth: Sexist Monday in Review

Monday on my Facebook is Sexist Monday. That's where the girls try to give a good reason why they are allowed to vote and drive. Here's the discussion from this week:

Hockeydino:
I wonder what other sappy useless hallmark holiday women will think of next?

Lisa
Hey mister knock it off, its about Cupid....cmon

Julie
i used to work for hallmark, and they only pimp the holidays, not create them...

Beth
How about" kick your boyfriend anytime he says something sexist day"?

Rina
Screw holidays.
The perfect holiday would be the one where you don't work, get time off, a fat bonus, and are wined, dined and shopped extensively - not on your tab of course!!
And THAT ain't happenin'!!!!

Dina
I like Rina's way of thinking!!!

Vanessa
st. valentine was a male. hmmmm.

HockeyDino
why are women online when they should be in the kitchen or tending to children?

Robb
Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparent's Day, National Teacher's Day, Take your Daughter to work day (WHAT A CROCK and what about my son), Boss's Day, Sweetest Day, Valentines Day and the worst of them all is the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS in renaming Secretary's Day to Administrative Professional's Day.

If you pay close enough attention you will notice there is at least 1 Hallmark Holiday per month and you all have been brainwashed to follow these silly things.

I have boycotted these my entire life. Anyone of my past girlfriends will tell you....they never got anything from me on these days (not a single piece of candy, card or gift), nor have I ever taken them out for a "special" dinner, evening or event on those days. Right Ladies?

If you need a hallmark holiday to gain recognition from the ones that love you, you better rethink what love is and who you surround yourself with.

Rina
Why are the men online? Shouldn't they be out there, working to support the families (ie women and children), slaughtering dinosaurs or something????

Rina
BTW Dina - THANK YOU - for appreciating the way I think...

Robb
Men are online because women took our high paying jobs and started working them for 1/2 pay. Scab labor.

Now 50 years later it takes a man and a woman to earn enough to support their family. Before it just took a man (working 1 job).

Women in the workplace is the very idea that has destroyed the modern-day family and made the workplace environment generally unbearable. I'm not one for the good ole boy society but facts are facts.

Similarly, we are now in a global society and India and China's citizens are like women 50 years ago - taking high paying jobs for 1/2 pay.

So in fact, it's not outsourcing that is crushing the american economy, it is women in the workplace.

Monica
Time in a bottle.

Julie
robb, no wonder you're still single...

Julie
rina, couldn't agree more! got off fb and work already guys!

Robb
Still single, no. Resingled and grown up. Working it my way this time, not conforming to woman dribble anymore.

Julie
go robb...hope that works for you...

Sara
Everyday is sexist Monday when you work in the auto industry.

Robb
It works perfectly. I get to make my own decisions and there is nobody there to make me feel bad or nag me about it.

It's not like I'm a misogynist. But I am definitely a misogamist!

Julie
funny, i have the same situation and i'm married! go figure ;)

Teri
I think I can guess why Robb is online so much..... Sara-same with the water quality industry, the hospitality industry and well...anywhere unless your a spinster school teacher :D

Jo
well buy me dinner and flowers, maybe you will get lucky,,,maybe ..

Michael
Thanks Dino for stepping up to the plate and taking the bull by the horns .... it is mushc easier to have "Sexist Monday" than "Mixed Metaphor Monday"

Soleil
kudos to robb g =]

Julie
Oooooooh, sounds like somebody has their knickers in a twist....:)

Robb
Why am I online so much? That's "Tell Me Tuesday." Dino was going to start that post tomorrow.

Julie
Only Dino knows!

Bob
How about Doghouse Day. If you don't give her something, you get to sleep in the doghouse.

Cheri
Valentines Day was started by a man... Sweetest Day is the dumb one. I believe that is the TRUE Hallmark holiday.

Theresa
If the fathers would stop running out on their families, the moms could feel safe to stay home. Every woman should be able to earn a living, support her children, and live independantly. You can't trust a man to do it.
Remember the "good old days"? I remember my aunt crying because her husband left her with 4 kids to raise on her own. Yeah, that was good for the kids.

Robb
And I can go further. Sexist...really? I think Realist would be a better definition. Just because someone doesn't want the truth, doesn't make ME sexist.

I have 2 daughters, I am raising them to be realists. Can a woman be a firefighter? Depends on the woman. Most...no way! I personally don't know one woman who could carry me down a ladder (not saying that there aren't some out there that can). I also know alot of men that couldn't and they shouldn't be firefighters either. That's flat out realism to any man I know but is considered a sexist statement by some women.

Sexist Pig: I don't know about that either. I'm a single-dad. Custodial parent to my children. For them, I do every job a woman does....cook, clean, wipe their noses, make their lunches, drive them to school, drive them to dance classes (which my SON is also in). Yes, my son is in dance and gymnastics, still think I'm sexist?

Robb
Theresa, history has shown that it is more likely for a man to run out on their family but let's flip the scenario: What about the increasing population of women who are running out on the men and leaving the kids? You know Dead-Beat Mothers wasn't something you heard 10 years ago but it's out there now, isn't it?

Kelly
Well well....so much interesting information today! Dan, although I completely agree with the "American Family" philosophy you have so eloquently stated...my issue is with the statement from Robb that the downfall of the economy is from women in the workplace. Wtf?? Do we still live in the 1950's?? This is such an ignorant statement and is very offensive to me! I was forced into going back to work and believe me if I could "stay home where I belong", I would be more than happy too. But, circumstances have forced otherwise. I work very hard and to be paid less money because I am a woman really is unfortunate. I think if the shoe were on the other foot, Robb might be singing a different tune. Of course, this is just my opinion and it probably counts for nothing...cuz, I'm just a woman anyway...what do i know?

Theresa
Yes, women can leave too. That's why men need to know how to change diapers, wash the dishes, and cook a meal. Everybody needs to be able to take care of themselves, so that when the significant other leaves, dies, or is deployed, the kids are taken care of. So men, go to the kitchen! Women, get a job! Kids, do some chores! Everybody do what they can and stop whiney-butting around about who's job is whose. Listen to Darwin: adapt or die out!

Theresa
Dino! Get you butt in the kitchen AND I MEAN NOW young man! It's your turn to do the dishes.

Rina
Gentlemen - don't you have a dinosaur or something to skin?

As far as kids of working mothers being emotionally scarred for life goes - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I have ALWAYS worked full-time, my kids are now grown up, VERY well educated, earning high salaries, both in stable loving relationships of long standing. Not only are we a very close knit family, but both kids show signs of starting stable families too.

It isn't a question of women-in-the-workplace-taking-paying-jobs-away-from-men-and- breaking-up-happy-happy-families - it's a question of making right choices and working at doing things right. So stop whining guys!! If the women are taking your status (snicker) in the workplace away from you, stop whining and bust your butts to get it back!!!

Robb
It was a a far-fetching conclusion. Relax.

It's simple supply and demand priciples. For example if there were only 1 million men to fill 1 million jobs, there would be a price war by business' in favor of the employEE. Yet put 1 million woman into supply and that makes 2 million people bidding for the same job which equals a price war that favors the employER.

That's all I'm saying.

So another far-fetching conclusion would to be to say that the dot.com bust was a simple supply and demand issue too. Once the demand was no longer there (because of too many suppliers and too much inventory) the whole thing went belly up.

Same supply and demand principles in both scenarios.

One makes me look like a sexist, the other makes me look like I listened when they taught me Supply and Demand Principles in grade school.

Robb
I love grocery shopping. There is nothing but me and women all over. The one picking apples is hot!

Barb
I have to agree with you hockeydino...Valentine's day is just another reason to spend money...I don't even acknowledge it.

Robb
I had to stop for a 20 minute break from shopping when I saw the SI Swimsuit Issue on the magazine rack. Wow! Danica Patrick on Page 6 - She is definitely my favoritre Formula 1 driver now [editors note: Indy Car Driver, not Formula One]!!! And the girls of tennis. There's a new Russian makin' my heart go pitter patter....move over Anna.....here comes Maria Sharapova. And the rest of them too. Man I gotta start watching more Tennis!

Linda
where's dino???

Robb
Titus 2:3-5

God is a sexist too!

HockeyDino
Why do men die before their wives?

They want to.

Kimberly
Sexist works both ways - your 2 real purposes - when we need to move and the perfectly obvious.:) btw - it's not a holiday unless it's a paid day off....Christmas, president's day, Martin Luther King day etc.

Vanessa
this is why it costs more to insure an unmarried man over a married one?