"Why do women feel so ANGRY?"

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:18 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -rage.html

Just a load of whinging bollocks from a "middle class career/mum" who finds life stressful. The Mail pigeonholes ALL women as "Angry"

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I'd been on my feet for 18 hours straight the previous day, giving a major presentation to one of my advertising company's most important clients

Johnny, on the other hand, had knocked off at 4pm - flexible hours being one of the benefits of working in IT - and arrived home in time to spend the evening playing with Grace.

After the nanny had bathed her and put her to bed, he'd cheerfully polished off the dinner I'd cooked for him the previous day and had an early night.

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My mobile rang. It wasn't even light outside, but the Asian office was halfway through its business day. I was tempted to fling the phone in the washing machine with the sheets, but I can't afford to lose my job. Johnny and I need two salaries just to keep a roof over our heads.

about "Johnny...

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At 32, he's five years younger than me and, in many ways, very much a New Man. He talks about his feelings, rubs my feet, doesn't resent my earning capacity and worships the ground our daughter walks on.

Good feedbacks inc

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You chose to have a husband, a child, a career, etc. You chose your life. Don't expect others to listen to you complain about it.
Click to rate Rating 56

- Marion, Michigan, USA, 23/2/2009 06:53

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you must be a right barrel of laughs.
Click to rate Rating 38

- lill, glasgow, 23/2/2009 06:51

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Grow up. Boarding school, nannies, over inflated mortgage, long suffering husband. Ex husband who's career you deem not as important as yours. You must be a pleasure to know.
Click to rate Rating 60

- mae, glasgow, 23/2/2009 06:50

Chris S · **Joined:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:10 pm **Posts:** 998

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Yes, I'm angry. I'm angry with a world that still doesn't acknowledge how hard women work, in and out of the workplace. I'm angry with men for dumping the childrearing problem in our laps. I'm angry with women for refusing to admit it's too much, that we can't do everything all the time.

Don't get me wrong, I adore my husband. But there are times I could cheerfully strangle him simply for having the luck to be born a man.

Your job:

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I'd been on my feet for 18 hours straight the previous day, giving a major presentation to one of my advertising company's most important clients. I hadn't got home until 10pm and was exhausted. I craved sleep the way an addict longs for his next fix.

Your husband's job:

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Johnny, on the other hand, had knocked off at 4pm - flexible hours being one of the benefits of working in IT - and arrived home in time to spend the evening playing with Grace.

But yeah, it's probably something to do with you being a woman.

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Johnny and I need two salaries just to keep a roof over our heads.

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After the nanny had bathed her and put her to bed

No, you need two salaries to maintain the lifestyle you currently have and don't enjoy. Get a smaller house, a smaller car, better hours. I refuse to believe two professionals well into their careers can't sustain themselves and two kids. If it is the case I'll throw myself off Bowland Tower because life is rubbish.

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What is it like to be a man and have nothing to think about but the task in hand?

office_tramp · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:22 pm

Speaking as a woman, I wasn't angry until I read that article. Now I am. What a load of shite. No doubt, by now followed by a barrage of sexist comments.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:56 pm

Like this one?

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Why do women feel so angry? Glad you asked.
Well of course the irrational (and incorrect) explanation is to blame men. But in fact anger is a disease which starts to seriously inhibit women after the age of about 33. This is the age when the waning interest in them from men finally serves as confirmation that they are losing their looks. It is also the time that they reluctantly come to the realisation that 'having it all' is a cruel, feminist perpetuated myth.
Click to rate Rating 22- Cam, London,Broken Britain, 23/2/2009 6:42

What a c*nt. No doubt Cam's ex is about 33 years old.

bairy · **Joined:** Tue May 08, 2007 1:40 pm **Posts:** 2807

So just to get this straight. She chose her husband, she chose to have a kid, she had a choice in the type of house/car/nanny they got, she choose her career.

Her main beef is that everyone around her doesn't appreciate how hard she works. That alone isn't an unreasonable complaint (though it does smack of 'it's not me, it's everyone else'), but going to a national newspaper and slagging off your husband, boss and mother before declaring that all women are undervalued probably isn't going to do any good.

There are a whole bunch of men who have to do all the work because their ex-/partners won't. Do they not get to feel ANGRY?

The comments are giving her a right panning anyway.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:01 pm

She is a whiner, I was embarrassed for my sex when I read the article. Most of the comments actually talk sense - downsize, lose the nanny, if you have no time for kids you shouldn't have had them etc. There are a few sexist morons like Cam above but on the whole the comments seem to be from women and are giving her the pasting she deserves.

And from this we are meant to believe ALL women are angry? Only about articles like this!!

AOB · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:18 pm

office_tramp wrote:

What a load of shite.

Send that comment in to the Mail under the story. :lol:

Fozzy · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:19 pm

Fflaps:

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Why do women feel so angry? Glad you asked.
Well of course the irrational (and incorrect) explanation is to blame men. But in fact anger is a disease which starts to seriously inhibit women after the age of about 33. This is the age when the waning interest in them from men finally serves as confirmation that they are losing their looks. It is also the time that they reluctantly come to the realisation that 'having it all' is a cruel, feminist perpetuated myth.
Click to rate Rating 22- Cam, London,Broken Britain, 23/2/2009 6:42

What a c*nt. No doubt Cam's ex is about 33 years old.

And no doubt Cam's ex booted him, and he is now desperately telling everyone that really he lost interest in her first.

somewhat_nifty · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:30 pm **Posts:** 145

Gosh, it must be so stressful having to worry about how you're going to pay the nanny and get enough 'me' time into the bargain. All those workers who've just lost their jobs don't know how easy they've got it. And of course, this situation applies to all women - and we're ANGRY! :roll:

liberalelite · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:32 pm **Posts:** 90

Hmm, well the issue of the 'double shift' for working women is real - it's fairly well documented that most working women with children still take on an unfair proportion of childcare and domestic chores.

And if you're unlucky or foolish enough to live in the South East you may well end up in a situation where you have to pay a nanny in order to get 2 big enough salaries in to afford somewhere big enough for you and the kids, and many british companies have this wierd culture of presenteeism that's not conducive to raising a family.

But FFS, if you've got a nanny and have packed 1 kid off to boarding school and you're still struggling, you must be doing something wrong.

There is a point to be made here about work-life balance, but this woman manages to completely trivialise and devalue it by talking about crap like bikini waxes.

Uponnothing · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:27 am

Shameful pluggage of my own website here, but I have access to a print edition of the Mail each day in work and I took a picture of Amanda Platell's contribution to the 'brilliant new life and style section' which this headline advertises, it appears Amanda is doing her very best to make women angry click here to see it:

http://www.angrymob.uponnothing.co.uk

sven945 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:52 am

liberalelite wrote:

Hmm, well the issue of the 'double shift' for working women is real - it's fairly well documented that most working women with children still take on an unfair proportion of childcare and domestic chores.

I don't think anyone's disputing that. But she's whinging whilst saying that her husband (laudably. Though it could be said that he shouldn't necessarily be praised for simply doing what he should be doing) does lots of the work with the child and they have a nanny.

Dan · **Joined:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:32 pm **Posts:** 233

Cam is a dick with a chip on his shoulder about women in general. He spends most of his time going around the Femail articles finding something nasty to say even on feel-good articles.

I hope he gets his balls trapped in a vice.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:14 pm

Dan wrote:

I hope he gets his balls trapped in a vice.

So easily done. :shock:

liberalelite · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:32 pm **Posts:** 90

It does actually sound like she's not really communicated any of these issues to the husband - instead resorting to that age-old reliable method of airing her grievances in the national press.

Hey, we've all been there. I've got an editorial in the Times tomorrow asking mr. liberalelite to pick the cat up from the vet.

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