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

[Anonymous]

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.

This.

I am in my 30s and in a position to supervise a team that includes two older women. They are bitter, rude, and try to gin up complaints against me among the rest of the team. I don't know if it's race (they are white, I am not), looks, age, or all, but I am really appalled by their behavior. And now that I think of it, older white women have long been my only detractors.

[Anonymous]

you sound like a complete and total bitch pp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not very long. Just three years on Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This.

I am in my 30s and in a position to supervise a team that includes two older women. They are bitter, rude, and try to gin up complaints against me among the rest of the team. I don't know if it's race (they are white, I am not), looks, age, or all, but I am really appalled by their behavior. And now that I think of it, older white women have long been my only detractors.

I can't imagine why!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you sound like a complete and total bitch pp

You're right! Somehow all the younger people on the team manage to do the job, but it's my fault the older women refuse to. If I had any decency, I'd do the job for them. Sounds like you're cut from the same bitter, entitled cloth they are.

[Anonymous]

If you're in your 30s, why are you posting in the 50 and over sub-forum? Just to complain and and categorize all older women negatively just because of a few you have issues with? You came to the wrong place if you're looking for sympathy.

[Anonymous]

Try to be a little more likable. Do you think the world owes you something?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you sound like a complete and total bitch pp

You're right! Somehow all the younger people on the team manage to do the job, but it's my fault the older women refuse to. If I had any decency, I'd do the job for them. Sounds like you're cut from the same bitter, entitled cloth they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try to be a little more likable. Do you think the world owes you something?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you sound like a complete and total bitch pp

You're right! Somehow all the younger people on the team manage to do the job, but it's my fault the older women refuse to. If I had any decency, I'd do the job for them. Sounds like you're cut from the same bitter, entitled cloth they are.

Wait, PP is entitled because she wants people to do their jobs? That's an odd definition of entitled.

[Anonymous]

No because she is complaining about it and acting like all older women are like that and complaining on a board of 50 + over. Sounds like an angry BW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No because she is complaining about it and acting like all older women are like that and complaining on a board of 50 + over. Sounds like an angry BW

Way to tell her by being a racist bitch. So, this is where all the lazy old white birches angry that they have to work after their husbands leave them for a younger Asian hang out, huh?

You sound outraged that someone would expect you to earn your pay. I guess a lifetime of loafing and sponging leaves little room to develop a work ethic.