Forbes and Me
Forbes Magazine just ran an article suggesting that men not marry career women, because we are uppity and likely to be unfaithful. The ensuing storm is very well chronicled in Salon, http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/08/24/career_women/index.html.
Some of the letter writers in Salon have suggested that my recommendation to would-be career women to marry someone younger or older is like the article in Forbes. What these writers miss of course is that my rule is "Never Marry A Jerk" MEANING, for anyone who has been on Mars for the last eight months, someone who will not expect the female to bear 70% of the housework and child rearing, let's call him Michael Noer. Marrying younger or older is just a stand in for the careful work that goes into not marrying a jerk.
Choice feminists, who compare me to Caitlin Flanagan, not only miss that point, they miss the point that when you are trying to help people blast out of a position of inferior power and flourishing your enterprise is completely different from someone like Forbes just trying to keep the existing relationships of power in place.