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| To Be Happy, Women Must Do The Opposite Of Everything Secular Western Culture Tells Them |
| 2024-05-06 |
[Federalist] Everyone wants to talk about what’s wrong with men, whether it’s "toxic masculinity," "men without work," "the end of men," the longhouse, or the need for men to "clean their rooms." Not so many people, however, want to talk about what’s wrong with women. Even the longhouse complaint is that women are too successful:As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and 54 percent of doctoral degrees. And because they are overrepresented in professions, such as human resource management (73 percent) and compliance officers (57 percent), that determine workplace behavioral norms, they have an outsized influence on professional culture, which itself has an outsized influence on American culture more generally. The bureaucracy that controls Western life is feminized, the longhouse argument goes; implying that women have won. But is that true? Is it "winning" for women to wield power at the expense of their sexual counterparts, the other half of humanity, without which there is no humanity? Are women happier ostensibly being in charge? It seems obvious the answer to that is a resounding no. Our society offers very few generally accepted successful strategies for helping both men and women achieve happiness through maturity. The women might look better on their resumes, but they’re also a skyrocketing majority of antidepressant and other pharmaceutical users. And it sure doesn’t satisfy women that they can kick tail in the office if their apartments are filled with cats, houseplants, and vacation pictures because the available men aren’t working toward family-sustaining salaries or interested in trying to lead even one slightly fractious and anxious woman on the quintessential life adventure of growing a family. While our culture may not offer either men or women good counsel about how to create a fulfilling life, author and life coach Suzanne Venker does. A longtime Federalist writer, Suzanne has expanded her writing career into coaching so she can get right in the trenches with women. Venker’s latest book out in March from Post Hill Press, How to Build a Better Life, distills her countercultural, practical, and effective life advice for women into eight digestible chapters. Her overarching theme is simple: To be happy, women have to do just about the opposite of what secularized Western culture tells them. This theme builds on other how-to books Suzanne has written, including The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage, which I buy for friends’ wedding showers. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Trying to be like men and hate them too ain't too good for mental health. |
| Posted by: Gliling tse Tung9582 2024-05-06 17:54 |
| #4 As far as I know, there is only one longitudinal study of female happiness 1974 - 2009. Conducted by the Univerity of Pennsylvania for the National Bureau of Economic Research. It shows women getting progressively (pun intended) unhappier as time went on. Here's the link: https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969. NATURALLY there is no explanation of why women are getting more unhappy all the time. Naturally. |
| Posted by: Tom 2024-05-06 16:00 |
| #3 I like songwriter John Prine's recommenation for everyone to "blow up your TV." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2024-05-06 12:51 |
| #2 'They' can't define what a woman is. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-05-06 07:41 |
| #1 Western culture died the moment they went for equality of outcomes - everything else are details. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-05-06 03:12 |