Having It Up to Here With "Having It All"

I have written time and time again about this "debate" or rather whining among elite women about how "hard" they have it in their "elite" fields making obscene salaries married to men in "elite" fields who also make obscene salaries and their lovely children who go to "elite" and almost always private schools and how they don't have enough time to "balance" "work" and "family." It is such a bunch of horseshit it makes me want to hurl.

First of all, WHO gives a shit about the "problems" of women who likely were born on third base to begin with rather than actually have worked their way up in their careers or paid their way through school? Who cares when the country is going down the toilet economically, with tens of millions of people out of work and not only don't have "it all" but don't have ANYTHING? It is the height of self-absorption and utter lack of shame to even WRITE about such a stupid topic when there are vastly more serious issues facing the country and the world.

I suppose self-absorption IS a world problem when people are focused on their own selfish interests and not on the world at large. It's a mentality typical of the top one or two percent of income "earners." They think their petty problems are everybody else's.

This writer and her ilk actually think they are better than everybody else. They arrogantly believe that because they make more money than everybody else and are in male-dominated fields they are "successful" people who are "entitled" to have "help" or "recognition" of their imagined "problems." By the way, this author could very well wind up like yours truly or many of the millions of other people who are tossed out of the labor force, especially when older, and find it almost impossible to get back in any kind of job or career, glamorous or not. She's well off now, but she isn't that well off and could very well fall into the economic pit. However, she thinks THOSE kind of situations are for OTHER people; snobs like her are worried about whether or not they have enough time to spend with their kids when they could quit their jobs and free them up for people who really DO need the work.

There was a time 35 or 40 years ago, when the economy was in much better shape before the neolibs decided to destroy it, when such issues such as child care and job sharing seemed important and achievable. Of course feminists put way too much faith in the private sector to think it would EVER do the right thing to have "family-friendly" policies. Instead, it welcomed women flooding the workplace while at the same time these businesses gutted unions and slashed men's wages and salaries to the point where two people in a household could be paid the same as one income earner. The "family wage" fought by unions for decades was dead. THAT is where the real equality ended up being, and that's with men and women being equally poor.

Those trends didn't affect elite women in elite fields like medicine and law, two of the crappiest jobs in the economy, by the way, because they don't allow much time for a personal life anyway, especially law. That is the nature of these labor-intensive jobs. Men who do them often burn out and leave a lot of ex-wives in their wake because they DON'T "have it all." If women want to waste their time in these fields, they should go for it, but they shouldn't whine about these jobs taking up so much of their time. No sympathy here, I'm afraid.

"Having it all" is just another lie like Horatio Alger. The ONLY people who truly "have it all" are those who want to OWN IT ALL in the economy. These are the people who are unscrupulous enough or were born into the right family they don't HAVE to work to have "everything."