Comments on: Fixing the Economy Is Women’s Work

By: Wizcon

Wizcon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:10:54 +0000

Thank you. Sometime I wonder if I get to chatty about my personal experiences. But I have always held that you pay attention to your experiences because of the perspectives it gives you. Sometimes the parable approach explains things better.
My kids want me to write things down. For now I am enjoying the conversations we have. I think, bottom line, dependency is a dangerous thing. It clouds the reason.

By: AliSilver

AliSilver — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:45:41 +0000

LOL! WIZ!

I just want to say in case I never told you how great it is to have met you on this blog and read your posts. You are a wealth of important and usually ‘different’ perspectives. Your life experience is something I look forward to hearing about each morning. You know SO MUCH and have a very calming affect on what might otherwise be very controversial subjects. YOU ROCK MY FRIEND

By: Wizcon

Wizcon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:52 +0000

LOL! I remember figuring out the great male myth of fixing things out of necessity. There was no one else and I had little money. I actually enjoy it. Guess it rubbed off on my daughters. My youngest just spent 2 days in the backcountry of Yellowstone constructing a bear pole. It looks like a tepee frame with a winch on it to pull your food up out of bears reach. They cut trees with a cross saw and used hand tools to debark the trees.The thing is 25′ high! She told me it made her think of playing in the garage when she was younger. She was in 7th heaven!
My oldest, though married, does all the house maintenance because she’s better at it than her hubby. Even building a screened porch. The husband excells at organizational things. The middle one is a wiz at electrical and roofing. Makes sense to me since I used to find her in high places as a child. One time she was the equivalent of 3 stories up perched on the roof pretending to be a gargoyle. Just waiting for me to notice. She was the official gutter cleaner. I don’t recall teaching them but I know they observed me figuring stuff out.
I learned to make tools that I couldn’t find. I got that from my dad. I have quite a collection of them made from scraps of wood and metal and duct tape.

By: Sage

Sage — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:41:28 +0000

Can you imagine some defense supplier telling a woman that a hammer costs $200? LOL

By: Wizcon

Wizcon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:40:03 +0000

There’s a big difference between agressive and assertive. Assertive wins big time.

By: Sage

Sage — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:16:11 +0000

I think women are much more likely to look for a bargain and refuse to pay full price for something.

By: AliSilver

AliSilver — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:51:25 +0000

Oh remember when the 3 auto giants were sitting before congress begging for money,,,,,,, all those lovely ladies with their manicured nails and scultped eyebrows?

That’s because they weren’t THERE !

By: AliSilver

AliSilver — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:50:30 +0000

Hahahaha,,,, I think somewhere we must have all known this was true! Right? I am the one in my house who says Oh No Sorry,,,we cannot buy a big screen tv, not now , not ever, dear ! I am the one who goes out and hunts for a cash car when the husband thinks we should just go buy something NEW and put it on payments, O M G!!! So, I fully believe these findings. Idiot men, look how bad they’ve screwed up everything up to now !

By: Wizcon

Wizcon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:22:29 +0000

This has been a theory for a long time. I think the actual research was hard because there were so few women in that position to draw data from until more recently.

In the fall of 1970, I stumbled in to the student union, got my cup of coffee and headed to the big round table where I met my friends every morning before beginning our day. At the table, this particular morning was a small older lady sitting with a graduate student from the Anthropology Dept. It was Margaret Mead. She is most famouse for her study on adolescent girls in Samoa coming of age and managed to outrage many about her disclosure of the casual sex the young girls had before settling into marriage and raising children. She was blamed as much as Dr Spock for the “loosening of morals” in the 60’s in America. But she did studies on morals and gender roles too. The conversation we had that morning over coffee was how women would be as managers and CEO’s in the corporate world. That’s where I first heard the term “saber rattling” as a term for competition. She pointed out that women were not risk takers men were. So this has been a long time coming.
I remember thinking she looked exhausted and frail. But at 17 who was I to to figure out her taxing schedule and rounds of lectures.
She was 69 at the time.