More on Forbes' working-women-make-shitty-wives article
UPDATE: The article has seemed to have disappeared from the Forbes site. Interesting...
I just wanted to point out--as others have in comments--that Michael Noer, the author of Forbes' Don't Marry Career Women, has also written The Economics of Prostitution. Sounds somewhat innocuous, until you get to gems like this:
Wives, in truth, are superior to whores in the economist's sense of being a good whose consumption increases as income rises--like fine wine. This may explain why prostitution is less common in wealthier countries. But the implication remains that wives and whores are--if not exactly like Coke and Pepsi--something akin to champagne and beer. The same sort of thing.
Yeah...he doesn't have a problem with women at all.
Also, Gawker offers a "condensed version of why you shouldn't marry those ball-busting, cash-making whores." WIMN's Voices and Shakespeare's Sister also weigh in.
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Amazing - the link was there, and now it's gone. The slideshow no longer exists. It's probably too much to ask that they publish an apology...
I'd like to interpret this as showing that women do have some power, to express our shared anger, and to be heard.
That would be wonderful.
You can still access the content using Google cache:
link to article cached on Google
That's funny, his other article doesn't seem to be there anymore either...Forbes must be having some website problems.........
Echidne,
I was thinking along those lines as well, and it's making me giddy. Is someone actually listening to us for a change?
Article can still be accessed off the site at this URL:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/economics-prostitution-marriage_cx_mn_money06_0214prostitution_print.html
Sad, I got all happy when I thought it got pulled.
Nice dig.
Looks like the last link I posted is broken now too. Perhaps they did pull it, afterall!!! just took a while to propagate :) For those curious, what it was, check out Google cached content (see above).
The article is back, with a rebuttal.
Here it is: article with a rebuttal
That wife or whore article thing is disgusting!! I couldn't bring myself to read past half of it! What an ass!!