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Fri. 10/16/09 12:11 AM

Fighting fire with gasoline

"As a matter of of logic, feminism contributed to unemployment be putting more workers in the job market. Right or wrong, more workers means more people vying for "x" number of jobs, therefore higher unemployment."

You can call it logic if you think the world is flat. The idea that women entering the marketplace led to higher unemployment is laughable. First, it assumes that all men are entitled to jobs and women are not and that women only get those jobs by taking them from men. Second, it assumes that the job market is static, which it's not. By Bullard logic, we should have all starved to death by now because as more people have been born each year, there was only "x" amount of food to feed us. Somehow we're all still living.

Tue. 10/06/09 12:35 AM

Fighting fire with gasoline

What a clever idea. Let's make some more laws. Why not a protection of bloggers act, which would provide special protection against comments which assert the blogger's inanity? Or a protection of readers act, to provide protection against especially foolish or poorly written editorials or blogs published in the newspaper?

Regardless of the foolishness of the Violence Against Women Act, one whose true purpose was political, the remedy surely is not to install some absurd Violence Against Men act. Unless the object, as it appears to be with the Violence Against Women Act, is to sever relationships.

Or did you forget that your mother taught you that two wrongs do not make a right?

Jim48315, Mt. Clemens, MI

The overarching point of the blog: Gender specific laws, as well as hate crime laws, are to no point other than political posturing.

For years, money has been pumped into getting women into college and the workplace. Now women are the majority of students in U.S. higher education and are on track to become the majority of Americans with jobs.

You can bet there will be no program to balance the books by attracting more men to school or to the workplace.

As a matter of of logic, feminism contributed to unemployment be putting more workers in the job market. Right or wrong, more workers means more people vying for "x" number of jobs, therefore higher unemployment.

--Bullard

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George Bullard, a former Detroit News editorial writer, is now a freelance writer. His perspectives stem from years tracking local, state and federal governments for The News.

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