Comments on: ‘don’t marry career women’

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:11:04 +0000

I married a self employed career woman 2 years ago. She cancelled the honeymoon, too busy at the office. She talks about the office 24/7 if there is 1 minute inbetween for us on weekends she is sleeping. I am a self made multimillionaire and we dont need her money. She is so consumed with her company we have no life. If she takes anytime off she is on the cel phone all day. She promised things would change but they have only gotten worse. Her health is going down hill. I am so unhappy even though I still love her which makes it even worse. Do yourself a favor and take a poor girl that wants to be with you. Career women are errogant, sarcastic,selfish,poor house keepers, bad cooks, hate sex, and are only interested in themselves and their career. DONT MARRY ONE!!!!

By: ibrahim

ibrahim — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:24:15 +0000

i dont think carrier women are that bad,because whatever problem that exist in the home I believe is that of the inability of the man to have total control of the woman.so for me I think it is a complex problem on the part of most men

By: js

js — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:47:54 +0000

hello, this is a hot topic due to the fact that with the inflational economy we currently have it stands to reason that women need to work. Within the working environment, we realize that taking classes here and there will pay off very soon, so we do this and become career woman dying to be loved and to love forever and ever!!

By: CL

CL — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:50:45 +0000

I’m sure there are plenty of women who would rather take care of their kids, if they had them, than work. Each woman is different.

By: Tallman

Tallman — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:40:06 +0000

I have to say, no matter how good this theoretical future wife’s career is, I’d still want her to take a strong role in child rearing. I think that is one of the reasons why we get married (to have children and to raise them right) and I don’t think it is acceptable to farm that off on third world labor help. Unfortuneately, it is very hard for women to be involved in child rearing and to continue to do demanding jobs. And the main reason to continue to work is to make money. I think that reason gets less compelling when the guy is making over $100K. That will cover the basics.

By: themofo

themofo — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:22:56 +0000

Personally, I’d love to date a woman who makes more than me. Ideally by winning the lottery, but I’ll take a working stiff too.

By: derek rose

derek rose — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:54:44 +0000

Alizinha — that is very true, Noer’s article was definitely written by a guy for career guys. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that per se, but it was weird for it to be published in Forbes rather than a men’s magazine.

By: alizinha

alizinha — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:24:11 +0000

No, Mofo, you didn’t explicitly say ANYTHING about career men. That’s my point–you only bothered to mention what pills professional (read: uppity) women can be.

Similarly, the original Forbes article warned against marrying professional women when it could have just as easily advised against marrying professional men (see Jack Shafer’s critique that Derek so kindly linked to for further explication of this fact).

By: themofo

themofo — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:11:37 +0000

Well, you tell me, Ali. I don’t recall saying anywhere in my post that career men are walks in the park. But, assuming you’re a career woman, thank you for proving my point.

By: CL

CL — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:11:37 +0000

I think that whole notion is too silly to comment on. Most women after the age of 25 are going to be earning more than $30,000 per year, and if it’s something they enjoy doing, that doesn’t make them harder to date. Plus, it gives them something to talk about on a date.

Unless our parents are taking care of us, we still have to pay the rent, so it might as well be doing something we like.

I’ve heard about women not wanting to date men who earn less than them, and men being intimidated by women who have careers, and I say to both sexes: It’s hard enough to find someone you like without putting weird parameters on it like that.

If I’d had a family at 25, I’d have stayed home to take care of the kids. But I haven’t had kids yet, so I might as well work.