If you're a teacher, why would you "take a break" from dealing with kids, only to be dealing with a child on your so-called "break"? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Not at all PMT.. The teacher is by nature a control freak. What better reward can there be than to have a child who MUST comply with the dictates of she who must be obeyed?

Better one that can be controlled well, than a classroom full of those she has no hope with..

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Here's a far easier way out: Just quit your job!

Ah, but this would go against the feminist ideals of "freedom".

It’s a shocking statistic and one which will enrage many people. After all, using pregnancy to jump ship and leave others to shoulder your responsibilities hardly bolsters the female cause.

This is incorrect.

The realisation that many women find childrearing less stressful than going out to work is nothing new, nor is it shocking to anyone who has given a thought to the feminist dream of having all women out of the home, working all day.

Getting pregnant and staying at home taking care of one's children is a natural instinct that can only bring deep satisfaction to many women. Doing so bolsters the female cause immensely, especially if it shows the stupidity of present maternity leave laws that force unequal conditions employers have to give women while providing just the same pay and conditions in all other respects.

The female cause can only be helped by women doing what is natural and good: bearing, birthing, raising young children. It is not the female cause that is harmed by women wanting to be female, it is the feminist cause that is harmed.

What kind of woman gets pregnant just to take a year off work?

Uhm, the lazy entitlement type! Read a good many western women.

Sarah and Yuliana did. So are they exhausted by office life... or selfish and irresponsible?

Exhausted? Oh those poor dears! Selfish? Most certainly. What sort of person uses this have to get a year off from work WITH PAY? Seriously. And of course, you and I know she wont be returning once the funds run out either....

And Lordy, we wont even ask about the danglers.. where are they?

TMOTS

This is why the MRM needs to take note of the often mentioned remark that the best way of bringing something like "true equality" to the way men and women operate is to REMOVE the artificial advantages given to women..

Lets face it, the suggestion that soon to be fathers can have a year off because they are "expecting" just doesnt hold water, but why the fuck a company should have to pay for folk who dont work for them is rather daft..

That's right.

Sarah and Yuliana did. So are they exhausted by office life... or selfish and irresponsible?

A year off, WITH PAY? Utilising something that results from sexual discrimination against men, and in favour of women? Yeah, sounds pretty selfish, to me. And exhausted by OFFICE LIFE?? Perhaps they should try getting their arses down coal mines, if they want to talk about being "exhausted"....

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A year off, WITH PAY? Utilising something that results from sexual discrimination against men, and in favour of women? Yeah, sounds pretty selfish, to me. And exhausted by OFFICE LIFE?? Perhaps they should try getting their arses down coal mines, if they want to talk about being "exhausted"....[/COLOR][/LEFT]

Come on, BD! Gossip and cattiness are indeed exhausting! Show some compassion, you ogre.