Gloria Steinem's nonsense about having power when you are young/losing power

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Women have power. They outlive men by 10 years. What good is power when you're taking a dirt bath. As Marilyn Monroe said "women who compete with men lack ambition."

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You are nonsense OP for taking on an icon. Go to school, read a book, something to be more positive and contributing to society.

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I thought the article was very good, glad she is raising awareness of these issues.

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I am mid 40s professional woman with degrees. I get the most pushback from older women who stayed at home and raised their kids, and now are returning to the workforce. They refuse to respect or report to another woman, especially a younger one, even though I have never taken a break in my career.

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Anonymous wrote:I am mid 40s professional woman with degrees. I get the most pushback from older women who stayed at home and raised their kids, and now are returning to the workforce. They refuse to respect or report to another woman, especially a younger one, even though I have never taken a break in my career.

Perhaps get off your high horse. Degrees don't make you better if you can't help make the world a better place. You clearly have an attitude issue.

Who's raising your children? Husband?

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If you misinterpret men trying to sleep with you with power then she's right. I think that women never had power at any age. So long as both men and women in power suppress women below them, nothing will change.

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Gloria Steinam is going by her experience, but she never had real power, she had celebrity. It's an established fact that celebrity fades for women as they get older. Remember she fast made a splash by being a Playboy bunny and writing about it. Women with real power don't lose its just because they're older. See Margaret Thatcher.

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Anonymous wrote:Gloria Steinam is going by her experience, but she never had real power, she had celebrity. It's an established fact that celebrity fades for women as they get older. Remember she fast made a splash by being a Playboy bunny and writing about it. Women with real power don't lose its just because they're older. See Margaret Thatcher.

As well as misspelling her name, you're minimizing Steinem's role as an activist and journalist over many years. Ironically, while Thatcher, a tool of the patriarchy, would dismiss Steinem, it was women fighting for equal rights, like Steinem, whose support made it possible for Thatcher to get the power she had.

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Anonymous wrote:Gloria Steinam is going by her experience, but she never had real power, she had celebrity. It's an established fact that celebrity fades for women as they get older. Remember she fast made a splash by being a Playboy bunny and writing about it. Women with real power don't lose its just because they're older. See Margaret Thatcher.

As well as misspelling her name, you're minimizing Steinem's role as an activist and journalist over many years. Ironically, while Thatcher, a tool of the patriarchy, would dismiss Steinem, it was women fighting for equal rights, like Steinem, whose support made it possible for Thatcher to get the power she had.

Thatcher would be so much of a better candidate than Incompetent hillary .

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Anonymous wrote:I'll have to look up what she said, but I can say that my once-powerful life has spiraled downwards in my mid-50s. It's almost like it was all for naught.

Please elaborate. I feel this way too. I have no more power. Younger people, men in particular, look right through me. Nothing I've accomplished seems to mean anything because I'm too old, so last week.

Do you think men feel the same?
I'm guessing not, which makes me super sad.

Yes ladies, it's much the same for most men. Perhaps in certain career positions one can maintain their sense of power but most not as you get over 50-55.

Yes. Those who have power don't lose it because they're older. However, if you get to be in your mid-fifties and haven't achieved a position of power, you're not going to. When you're younger, you still have potential. This is true for both sexes.

Annie Proulx who wrote Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain (the book versions) amongst other things, didn't get published until she was 55. Yes, that's 55 - so her extraordinary success didn't hit her until after she crossed the 50 point.

I am 100% sure there are other examples. I can think of a poet who didn't get published - and then was a best seller - at gasp, 84.

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Anonymous wrote:Gloria Steinam is going by her experience, but she never had real power, she had celebrity. It's an established fact that celebrity fades for women as they get older. Remember she fast made a splash by being a Playboy bunny and writing about it. Women with real power don't lose its just because they're older. See Margaret Thatcher.

As well as misspelling her name, you're minimizing Steinem's role as an activist and journalist over many years. Ironically, while Thatcher, a tool of the patriarchy, would dismiss Steinem, it was women fighting for equal rights, like Steinem, whose support made it possible for Thatcher to get the power she had.

Except Thatcher is long dead.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Jeff would take down all of the anti-women posts.

Do you mean this is an anti-women thread, or that is has anti-women posts within it? Maybe he's taken them down already.

I think apart from the occasional stupid comment, its quite interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Jeff would take down all of the anti-women posts.

I wish jeff would take down all the anti-men posts... HO! wait... then there wouldn't be any dcums forum....

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Do people still listen to her?


No way, she's too old!

Was this a joke to prove her point?

LOL. Yes, it was a joke. I should have put a wink emoticon, eh?

Hilarious how many people are missing the joke responses.

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Do people still listen to her?


No way, she's too old!

Was this a joke to prove her point?

LOL. Yes, it was a joke. I should have put a wink emoticon, eh?

Hilarious how many people are missing the joke responses.

Not really, maybe the "joke" responses just aren't that good...