Thread: 'There's no such thing as a glass ceiling!

There's been an increasing number of women over the years who have made their mark in business and have no fear in stating the facts; the [insert feminist lies] is a myth.

I have been saying for years that there are more than enough successful women about to well and truly shatter the myth of the 'glass ceiling'. Many even do it without concessions that discriminate against men.

No doubt Hilary Devey will be condemned as a traitor by the sisterhood.

Interesting double standard, how feminist propaganda will uphold past women's accomplishments and call them "sacrifice", thus apparently elevating those individuals into an above-and-beyond level of heroine-worship eligibility.

And now, those same campaigns extolling "sacrifice" and "hardship" as measures of women's capabilities, would have younger women protected and propelled by quotas and affirmative action that call on no such things.

Does this mean the older sisterhood is setting up the younger sisterhood for an internal prejudice among feminist reformers against the very beneficiaries of their own activism?

This is a permanent historic dilemma in the wake of fights won and struggles endured, that those who were "in the trenches" hold superior claim on the gains thus made, than those who were not. I wonder how this will affect natural tendencies toward rivalries and constant comparisons between women that occur anyway, once younger women begin to receive entitlements for which they have not "sacrificed".

Perhaps this is why the glass ceiling mantra, and other mythologies of feminist revisionism, are maintained?

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No doubt Hilary Devey will be condemned as a traitor by the sisterhood.

Yes, the "sistahood" will scorn her and brand her a traitor just like they
did to the CEO of Yahoo. It's actually common for the "sistahood" to practice friendly fire since the second wave and third wave feminists have conflicting view points. The media doesn't like to shed any light on this ugly fact.

Success doesn't come from feminism, it comes from hard work and dedication. The glass ceiling wasn't there to begin with.

All of the above is where the thin veneer of historic logic begins to erode from the surface of feminist theory.

Referring back to a prior post where I invite everyone to play "heads, women win, tails, men lose", it looks like this trick may be the only rhetorical cover feminist propaganda has to offer: that being a woman, in itself, is a sacrifice because of the nature of a woman's personal maintenance, reproductive health and risk of various conditions uniquely threatening women (not least of which, as in France, is apparently the ongoing risk of being admired for being attractive to look at.)

But flip the coin, after a glance or two seem as if the other side of it was saying "women are inferior because of their bodies", then the other mantra is deployed: that women, being actually superior because of their anatomy, actually need nothing at all from men.

And when that argument fails after a drop or two to hold water, the coin is re-flipped, and back, and again, and back...

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‘The sooner we stop complaining about our biological differences and get down to work, the sooner more women will rise to the top.’

More women won't rise to the top, they will inter the place that best suites them.

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Success doesn't come from feminism, it comes from hard work and dedication. The glass ceiling wasn't there to begin with.

The glass ceiling is there: it's in the mind.

So, what's it called for the septic-tank cleaners and school janitors and plumber's assistants?

The concrete floor of the third sub-basement? At least the glass ceiling has a view.

And besides, even given total success in affirmative action in righting these wrongs real or invented, how many actual women does this stand to benefit?

So then, the rest have as a promised future:
languishing under the insular, self-obsessed, power-mad Ivy League women who are now obsessing over joining Augusta Golf Club?

So, it's better to serve as lackeys under sorority sisters than frat boys, right?

Why Women at Augusta Really Are a Big Deal - Lauren Stiller Rikleen - Harvard Business Review

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So, it's better to serve as lackeys under sorority sisters than frat boys, right?

The only way to serve animals is with Bar-B-Q sauce.

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No doubt Hilary Devey will be condemned as a traitor by the sisterhood.

Yeah, she sounds real worried about that.

When I was blogging and got a piece of hate mail or a death threat or was accused of having Stockholm Syndrome, I counted it as a badge of honor. They hate it when a woman not only doesn't use any of the artifical advantages to make it, she condemns them as well as something women don't need.