Thanks for your input,
inuzuki 
I could use some back-up on this...
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Originally Posted by RealJames
for the record, I got the feeling that when she said "man's job" it was meant to be understood that she meant "what is stereotypically considered to be a man's job by those who don't know any better" except that that's too long to say while maintaining an argument
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Well then she is really not helping to knock out the stereotype that women should be housewives while men work to maintain their families.
It's 2010 and there're still
lots of people who think that's how it should be.
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and now we enter hypothetical land:
Were I a woman, I think I'd want to get the having children part of my life over with before I was 25 or so, because women who have children at a later age well... it punishes them physically >< and also because if the man leaves the woman within the first 10 years she has a chance of still being hot enough to get another nice catch.
Or I'd never have kids, get rich, and play with young men
and now I'm leaving hypothetical land cuz it's grossing me out!  |
The underlined part of the text is true. I don't share her thinking but she's making a valid point there.