The other day, some 300 women journalists published a letter demanding a 30 percent quota for women in the media. It was not the first demand for a gender-quota in German society, nor will it be the last.
But there were not only journalists signing that letter. There were editors in chief, publishers, yepp, that’s the word: Anchorman and even hate-ridden monothematic feminists.
They argue, only more women holding leading positions in the media ensure a more female view on the world. Thus making the media more objective. That is sexist and insulting towards their male colleagues. Just as a reminder: journalism is not on women issues, it´s about facts and the truth. I don´t see how a particularly female view would alter these.
A quota – in other words – means: not the one that is suited best gets the job. It means the one with no balls will get it. That is again: sexist. Did quota ever change anything? Did the situation better for Afro-Americans because of quota? Or did they improve their situation by commitment, education and hard work?
It is a cruel, hard world out there. Not a place for rose-red illusions.
Whenever I want some overtime, I don´t have to ask my editor. I just wait until a woman or some kid turns sick. This very week, I had a little hint of a flu myself. But did I call in sick? Did I stay at home? Did I chicken out? No. I went to work, did my time, increased the GDP. Once again. That is called commitment.
There are several cases, I know about, of women who took their time off because they got depressed due to all the stress and all the work and all the duties and all the responsibilities. I don´t know a single man who quit working when stressed out.
Time, the average German mid-level manager spends at work per week: 48 hours
Time, the average German top-level manager spends at work per week: 68 hours
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At my age, all these hard-ass, career-focused, 60-hours-a-week women think about…
…getting babies.
Okay, fast-forward now. They get pregnant, work fewer hours. Weeks before the drop, they stop working. Get a baby – spend their time at home – for six month at least. And then…
And then, these highly educated, highly qualified women decide: I want to spend more time with my family. So, good bye 60-hours a week. They start working from home, 20 hours a week. Or become yoga-teachers and housewives. But, someone has to bring in the money. And common wealth is not increasing on half-time jobs and teaching art-classes for nothing.
That´s the key. It´s not the man, it is not some glass-ceiling, some mysterious male network that keeps women from top-level jobs. It´s lack of commitment and persistence. You can´t have everything. Either you work, or you don´t. You are looking for fulfillment, family, career, friends, health? Then choose!
Men did. We are awake. We are not playing with our Polly-Pockets spoiled and pampered in an ivory-tower of “I want everything and I want it now!” Men had to learn learnt to make compromises.
Men die at younger age. Men have a suicidal rate three times as high as women. Men tend to drug abuse to fight stress. Men would like to spend more time with their families too, but someone has to pay the bills. Men have learnt to live this ways, accepted it. Nobody did ever appreciated that the man is carrying the burden.
And to thank us, these 300 bitches, cunts, agitating gender-fascists, lazy-ass low-lives, blood-sucking parasites …uhm… I wanted to say women but I got emotional somehow. Anyway, these 300 highly under-employed women demand something that was never kept from them in the first place. The flaw in their weird idea is: they do not fight for strong women, they were always fighting to weaken men.
They just don´t try hard enough. Unless women are not willing to commit fully to their career, they are not in the position to demand anything.
Get a job!
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geh heulen
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