Comments on: Attention Women: You’d Best Get to Baby-Making http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/ Just another www.bostonmagazine.com weblog Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:10:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Jennifer /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5995 Jennifer Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:07:56 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5995 I am well out of my twenties, and wouldn't mind my current single status so much if it didn't affect my likelihood of being a mother. I actually heartily concur with “Women who want to have children should make it a priority in their twenties to find a partner.” What I object to is the idea that one cannot find a partner while also building a career, as well as to the absurd notion that every single woman in her 30s is single because she's been living a Carrie Bradshaw life or turning men down to focus on career issues, while for all the single women I know, it's because the relationships they had in their 20s didn't make it to the marriage-and-children stage for any of a multitude of reasons. I am well out of my twenties, and wouldn’t mind my current single status so much if it didn’t affect my likelihood of being a mother. I actually heartily concur with “Women who want to have children should make it a priority in their twenties to find a partner.”

What I object to is the idea that one cannot find a partner while also building a career, as well as to the absurd notion that every single woman in her 30s is single because she’s been living a Carrie Bradshaw life or turning men down to focus on career issues, while for all the single women I know, it’s because the relationships they had in their 20s didn’t make it to the marriage-and-children stage for any of a multitude of reasons.

]]> By: Lissa Harris /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5994 Lissa Harris Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:03:03 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5994 If my ovaries were my employees, they'd be a couple of illiterate sluggards blazing up in the parking lot twice a day, thieving from the petty cash box and doing their damnedest to get fired so they can sue me for unlawful discrimination. Enjoy spending $50K on adoption. If my ovaries were my employees, they’d be a couple of illiterate sluggards blazing up in the parking lot twice a day, thieving from the petty cash box and doing their damnedest to get fired so they can sue me for unlawful discrimination.

Enjoy spending $50K on adoption.

]]> By: The Snob /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5992 The Snob Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:24:46 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5992 "Women who want to have children should make it a priority in their twenties to find a partner." How is this different than stating "College students who wish to get into medical school should make it a priority to get good grades in biology and chemistry?" Is it cosmologically unfair that women's reproductive systems age twice as fast as men's? Sure. Doesn't make it untrue. “Women who want to have children should make it a priority in their twenties to find a partner.”

How is this different than stating “College students who wish to get into medical school should make it a priority to get good grades in biology and chemistry?”

Is it cosmologically unfair that women’s reproductive systems age twice as fast as men’s? Sure. Doesn’t make it untrue.

]]> By: An Intern /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5988 An Intern Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:10:44 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5988 You want me to count the number of sexist and insulting comments in every issue of Boston and Boston Home? The pretentiousness goes both ways. You want me to count the number of sexist and insulting comments in every issue of Boston and Boston Home? The pretentiousness goes both ways.

]]> By: JTS /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5976 JTS Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:32:56 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/03/04/attention-women-youd-best-get-to-baby-making/#comment-5976 You might be regretting that attitude if you wait too long and then can't have kids. Remember, there was a Juno and a Vanessa. You might be regretting that attitude if you wait too long and then can’t have kids. Remember, there was a Juno and a Vanessa.

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