Oh Monday

"Manly dignity is a big deal for most men. So is breadwinner status: Many still measure masculinity by the size of a paycheck. White working-class men’s wages hit the skids in the 1970s and took another body blow during the Great Recession. Look, I wish manliness worked differently. But most men, like most women, seek to fulfill the ideals they’ve grown up with."

~ https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

"Progressives have lavished attention on the poor for over a century. That (combined with other factors) led to social programs targeting them. Means-tested programs that help the poor but exclude the middle may keep costs and tax rates lower, but they are a recipe for class conflict. Example: 28.3% of poor families receive child-care subsidies, which are largely nonexistent for the middle class. So my sister-in-law worked full-time for Head Start, providing free child care for poor women while earning so little that she almost couldn’t pay for her own. She resented this, especially the fact that some of the kids’ moms did not work. One arrived late one day to pick up her child, carrying shopping bags from Macy’s. My sister-in-law was livid."

 ~ https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class


And yet, this is the solution? REALLY? Recent events make me think of an angry man on a motorcycle shoving a girl into oncoming traffic. Of course it also could have been an angry man's "supportive wife" doing the same thing indirectly. 


 "It is unfair that Clinton is called a “nasty woman” while Trump is seen as a real man. It’s unfair that Clinton only did so well in the first debate because she wrapped her candidacy in a shimmy of femininity. When she returned to attack mode, it was the right thing for a presidential candidate to do but the wrong thing for a woman to do. The election shows that sexism retains a deeper hold that most imagined. But women don’t stand together: WWC women voted for Trump over Clinton by a whopping 28-point margin — 62% to 34%. If they’d split 50-50, she would have won."

 ~ https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

Gag, gag: 

"When he brags about being able to do whatever he wants to with women, Kolod says, it creates a powerful image that resonates with some women. "There's this sense of: He can do anything; he can get away with it. That's the kind of guy who can protect us."

"And the ultimate sign of a good father and protector? That he raises classy children like Ivanka."

 ~ http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-psychologist-theory-why-women-voted-for-trump-20161114-story.html