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Mutter yes; Fraulein no. I'm surprise this could come out of Germany without the obvious psychology of "(over)compensation" entered in the equation. All they need to know is in "Michael Clayton."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46867955/
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It's over, boys:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/behind-every-great-woman-01042012.html
All we have left is the rape stats:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/us/politics/federal-crime-statistics-to-expand-rape-definition.html
It's gonna ruffle a few feathers in our modern-day Women's Temperance League when they discover there are FAR more rapes of men (not even counting Paterno et. Catholic al.) in this country than the fairer sex. I wonder what a "justice movement" would look like?
Of course the trend is in tact, from high to low: first perhaps, the soap opera at HP, and on up to Liz Warren...right on down to the pincer move on males in manufacturing vs. govt. oriented service (eg. DMV in extremis). That trend too is now turning....but like Rosie above, the genie is out of the bottle.
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| Quote: | | Ultimately, she got the Walther, joining a confederacy of people who might once have been counted on in the main to be anti-handgun -- women, liberals, gays, college kids. They are part of a national story: Domestic handgun production and imports more than doubled over four years to about 4.6 million in 2009, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun-industry trade group. |
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-09/buddhist-packing-bond-pistol-shows-american-warm-embrace-of-guns.html
Guns, smartphones, and the ever-pressing march "inward":
| Quote: | | Deciding to acquire one is part of “a broader feeling of helplessness that doesn’t come out of any kind of thoughtful calculation of risk,” says Homsher. “People buy guns to get rid of their phantoms.” |
File under "The D-Word"?
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Westernization proceeding apace in china--whether they like it or not:
http://www.economist.com/node/21539931
But watch for the old ways to find new expression:
| Quote: | In their recent book “Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets”, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid note that “the concept of work-life balance, once foreign…is an increasingly popular topic of conversation.”
It has already become more acceptable for a woman not to be working, says Helene Zhuge, CEO of bon-tv, a private television network broadcasting from China to the world. If her husband has a good job, or she has money of her own, she can now be a stay-at-home wife without incurring social disapproval. |
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That its even dragged down to the workplace shows up what an "egalitarian" world its already become. Luck favors symmetry but the trick of true beauty is to remove luck (and work) altogether.
| Quote: | | Women who are fairly easy on the eye do well at work but those who are outstandingly beautiful are penalised; distrusted by women and feared by men. |
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Back to the old days--taking human capital to the next level. The writer is female, of course.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7b00d0be-c72d-11e0-a9ef-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V7NNvJH2
| Quote: | | Reading the book from cover to cover leaves one with the feeling of having been clubbed repeatedly over the head. However, the experience isn’t entirely unenjoyable, nor is it without purpose. Hakim is quite right on one central point: women in the UK and the US are not brought up to make the best of themselves, as French women are. We are taught that beauty is the poor cousin of brains; we are hung up about flaunting it. This book, for all the repetition, annoying jargon and sloppy reasoning, makes one see things differently. Sitting on the Tube having just finished it, I stared at all the frumpy English women and thought what a shame it was that so few of them were making anything of their erotic capital. |
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The Economist's take on modern marriage trends, with a focus on Asia:
http://www.economist.com/node/21526350?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/sl/18aug11
| Quote: | Asia's lonely hearts
Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious
A lot of Asians are not marrying later. They are not marrying at all. Almost a third of Japanese women in their early 30s are unmarried; probably half of those will always be. Over one-fifth of Taiwanese women in their late 30s are single; most will never marry. In some places, rates of non-marriage are especially striking: in Bangkok, 20% of 40-44-year old women are not married; in Tokyo, 21%; among university graduates of that age in Singapore, 27%. So far, the trend has not affected Asia’s two giants, China and India. But it is likely to, as the economic factors that have driven it elsewhere in Asia sweep through those two countries as well; and its consequences will be exacerbated by the sex-selective abortion practised for a generation there. By 2050, there will be 60m more men of marriageable age than women in China and India. |
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