You must read this fabulous little article by Meghan Casserly on why equality doesn’t hurt men in.. wait for it…. Forbes.
It’s true. We want our men smart, but not cocky. Protective, but not patronizing. Driven, but not a dick. And we also want him to help us out when we’ve got an eight pm meeting and there are kids that need to get fed. In other words, we want a decent human being to pick up the slack where we can’t, provided we pick up the slack for him. Seems like a reasonable trade.
So why is asking for equality, the “end of men?” Why is asking our partners to be partners emasculating?
First The Economist and now Forbes, WTF?
That’s a pretty great quote.
Forbes had some obnoxious piece a week or so ago about how women aren’t CEOs because they are mean to each other in high school or some other such nonsense. So don’t worry, they’re not some great new feminist publication.
They did publish a response from a female CEO, though, basically calling bullshit on the first piece.
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