Quote of Day 4-28-10
The fact is… women without children achieve, on average, more in their career lives because they spend more time at work than those with children to raise.
[To prove her point, Erbe said of her friend]… with an Ivy League degree and a promising career… [she] flushed her chance at real world success down the drain and became a willing slave to her children.
~Bonnie Erbe, contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report, as quoted by NewsBusters, April 27
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I know quite a few women who have great careers but are not able to bear children…But they would give anything to have a child.
Maybe not all women want to have children and thats fine. But I wonder how Ms. Erbe here will feel when one day, when her very successful career is over and she is sitting in a retirement community all alone. No children, no grandchildren to visit. No one to spend the holidays with.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for a successful career, but at the end of the day, going home to my family is the most important thing. After all, my career is just my work. My child, my husband..they are who I live and work for.
Would they like it better if she flushed her children down the drain…
This may be one reason why they despise Sarah Palin so much. She is a mom (with five kids, no less, one of whom has special needs) who has a career.
She kind of blows their mantra out of the water…
Career achievement is what life is all about, right?! :P
When someone is dying, they never say they wish they had spent more time at the office or at their work. They are invariably concerned with relationships. This quote reveals someone who is not giving a second of thought to her mortality.
She doesn’t realize it now (Ms. Erbe, that is), but she’s going to end up being one lonely old lady. Feminists sure like that word – SLAVE, don’t they!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Because that whole storing-your-treasures-up-in-heaven thing is just for suckers.
So Bonnie – you’re a slave to the corporate machine…. what’s the difference?
Oh – that’s right – children can love you, while the corporation loves to use you.
You’re preaching a soft-despotism, instilled by a government and culture that leeches off you like a tax sucking/consumerist vampire.
Additionally, describing mothers as slaves only indicates disdain for your own mother and her sacrifices to raise you. That’s an incredibly pathetic and dishonoring commentary about your mother.
Cuddle up to that gold-watch when you retire – and when it comes to your funeral – no one will gather, because they’ll be off pursing more gold.
“Cuddle up to that gold-watch”
Heh.
Sounds like Erbe flushed her chance at real world success down the drain and became a willing slave to some other women’s children.
Perhaps she should read some Emma Goldman. Of course, Goldman advocated complete anarchy, but she realized very early in the Feminist movement that turning women into slaves to corporations was worse than what they had before.
This woman obviously has no children, or has a very poor relationship with the ones she does have. I’m not a slave to my children. I am their mother. I sacrifice for them because they need me for their survival, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not an adult who makes my own decisions. My husband also sacrifices, but you never hear talk of men being “slaves” to their children.
Sacrifice. We don’t hear the word often enough any more. Someone on Relevant Radio this morning reminded listeners of the old phrase, “offer it up”. My Mom said it all the time, bless her heart.
I do not have a problem with miss Erbe choosing to pursue her career instead of reproducing.
I take issue with her patronistic and condescending attitude toward women who exercised their freedom of choice and chose to invest themselves in their childrens lives.
Where your treasure is, there will be your heart.
I would have been a little more impressed with missy Erbe if she had presented us with the fruits of her career.
You know the Pulitzer prize, the Nobel prize, a Tony, an Emmy or an Oscar. How about a Peoples Choice Award?
Did NOW or NAARAL or the Democrat party reconize her contribution for the advancement of women.
May she has one of those little ‘hand’ drawings the little children bring home from ‘vacation bible school.
She has to have a niece or a nephew or some child that likes her enough to want to do something special for her.
Doesn’t she?
yor bro ken
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Without going into a discussion of the relative merits of being a stay-at-home Mom vs. being in the workplace, this woman sounds like a bitter, judgmental harpy. Who says that sort of stuff about someone they call a friend? Honestly.
That’s so insulting to highly intelligent women who just happen to want to raise a family. I have no interest in children at all (yet…), and I intend on embarking on a challenging career, but it’s sad to listen to a woman denigrating other women for their choices. Would she scoff at a man who wanted to stay at home and raise his family while his wife worked?
Disclaimer: Cut and pasted from Wikipedia.
Bonnie Erbé won the 2008 Conference Board’s Work Life Leadership Council Media Award for coverage of work-life issues.
She also won the 2008 Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues.
She has won more than 15 (total) Clarion Awards from Women in Communications,
Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio & TV
and EMMA awards from the National Women’s Political Caucus and formerly from Radcliffe College.
She also won Ohio State and New York Festival Awards while working for NBC Radio.[1]
Now for some ‘contrast’:
Cokie Roberts
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs[1] (born December 27, 1943), is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Roberts also works as a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation[2] and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.[3]
Roberts is the mother of two children and six grandchildren.
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Nuff said.
yor bro ken
Roberts is the mother of two children and six grandchildren.
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Nuff said.
yor bro ken
Posted by: kbhvac at April 28, 2010 5:17 PM
Ah, the supremacy of the breeders!!!!! Childless women are just sooo hopeless and heartless. Right, Ken? And for the record, I feel that it’s up to the woman as to if and when she has children and if she does, I fully support liberal (ewww)maternity or paternity leave along with affordable child care.
And if you actually read Erbe’s article, you’ll find that what she is saying is that both parents should, equally, participate in child rearing.
“Women will reach parity in the success arena when men do half the child-rearing and not before. That’s no reason to penalize child-free women.”
Her article is a refutation of Beinart’s “Daily Beast” article which recommends that Obama pick a “mom” for the Supremes. She makes the point that non moms can be equally qualified. She points out that both Ginsburg and O’Connor were moms.
I do commend those who connect this article to Erbe’s “flushing” her children down the drain. Wah to go, lifers!!! And you take umbrage with those who say that you – ah – don’t make much sense? Hello!
That’s quite a pose she struck for the camera.
What is she saying?
“Don’t you wish you were me?”
She exudes the warmth and kindness of a cold, dead, fish.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. Jn 12:24-26 NKJV
Artemis, you can disagree with people without insulting them. It would probably be better for your blood pressure.
Here’s something no one has said yet: what’s with “real world success”? Do kids not constitute part of the “real world”?
Marauder, maybe kids are part of that fairyland, pixie dust world where they appear only when you want them and magically disappear when you don’t…
Ken did not say that the only successful women are “breeders”–(Artemis).
Ms. Erbe has become so engrossed in her world view as to be brain dead to anything that might challenge her comfort zone.
A truly open minded, intellectually honest person must constantly check their own thinking and presuppostitions against what in being put forth by opposing points of view. We here in the Chicago area have seen plenty of Erbe over the years. She is the media darling of the leftist press because she mouths only liberal platitudes. She has not had an orignal thought in years. She does not seek to broaden her intellectual horizons by pondering even for a second that a single premise that she holds close might possibly be wrong.
Most liberals today are like her. They are never challenged in the MSM and so they come away thinking their world view is unassailable. They live in a cocoon, a bubble that none of their fellow travelers will prick. The world they helped create, i.e. that of 50 million dead babies since 1973, is unsustainable. Their folly is that they think this is liberation, even as they fall prey to a society that is crumbling around them economically, socially, and spiritually.
What is tragic is that Jesus died to rescue her from the lies she has embraced that blind her to the Truth. “Real world success”, as she defines it, is a fantasy, an illusion.
What she doesn’t realize is that all of her “achievements” which she is so proud of, will one day be evaluated, tried by the Fire of the Righteous Judge. And that whatever she has done that was not ultimately done from a heart of gratitude to the One Who died to save her from her own selfish ambition, will be consumed like so much wood, hay and stubble.
I don’t know her her heart, but I fear one day He may say, “I created you to glorify Me by works of love, obedience and sacrifice but everything you did was for your own selfish gain, to be esteemed in the eyes of the world. I called you to repent many times, but you didn’t believe you needed to change. You were filled with your own arrogance and pride. You led many others astray with your empty promises of fulfillment outside of a relationship with Me.”
“Now it is too late.”
And Jesus will weep as she is led away to be tormented.
I pray that some day she realizes her need for a Savior, and that she cries out to and has an encounter with The One who gave His Life to rescue her from herself; and that she accomplishes the Great Exchange, giving up her empty life for His Abundant Life; the Love, Joy, Peace, Acceptance and Intimacy which is found in fellowship with and in humble service to Him.
And I pray that the tragic events I described above never occur.
Actress Shelly Winters who had fame and money and glamour sobbed that she would give it all up for the chance to have her aborted children again.
nothing wrong with a career. But I tell you, someday when you’re old that corporation will kick you out on your behind to replace you with younger and fresher faces. You will slave your whole life away for them but in your old age who will climb up on your lap and tell you they love you? Certainly not your grandchildren because you won’t have any.
I am directly impacting the next generation by raising my child(ren) to have my values, actually, God’s values. Just this morning my son watched me make pancakes and nodded approvingly and said “Ya know what Mom? I like you.”
That is the most positive feedback I have ever received. I don’t think I felt a high like that at work EVER, not even when they’d give me a raise!
I am reminded of a “guideline” on how to treat/ prioritize work when I entered the workforce so many years ago…
“Entering the workforce/ choosing a career is like
putting your arm in a bucket full of water. You can make waves, a lot of splashes, do anything you like as long as your arm is still in the bucket…BUT the moment your arm leaves the bucket, there is no memory of you there. Nothing remains. Work goes on with or without you.”
I just hope that Ms. Erbe realizes this else she will be alone when she reaches her twilight years..