I haven't logged in to DKos in years, but I saw something so incredible I couldn't help but log in and post it. Just check this out: http://www.freerepublic.com/...
Here are some gems (and believe me, the thread gets so much better):
Women, by being born, are given gifts and a lifestyle that is more rich than men receive. It's perfectly normal that when you're blissed out in happiness you won't strive as hard. And it's designed that way. Morons.
All these liberal women who decry the relatively low numbers of women on corporate boards or in high-ranking political positions fail to understand that for most of us, the fire-in-the-belly is just not there. We just aren’t driven to conquer the world. Many of us are quietly ambitious, but that’s why we become small-business owners. We tend not to want to run the world. This is partly why so many women in high elective office are liberals: they represent the small minority of females who do want to run everyone else’s life.
They can’t change biology by legislation. Many of our tastes, interests, goals, and attitudes are hard-wired and not responsive to pressure. The desire to have children and care for them is wired into our brains. Our responsiveness to oxytocin—the neurochemical that is released during breast-feeding and imposes a certain broodmare tranquility on us at those times—is also innate. Libs, you need to deal with it.
I’m with your wife (”My wife believes that women are genetically and biologically programmed”). There are powerful hormonal, biological urges that come into play with childbirth. Thinking ideologically does not change that.
“You can have it all” is not ever how life works; there are time and human limitations. But you do have seasons of life in which you can focus on different things - one season, raising children; another season, empty nesting. And there are always bits of time here and there to make your life full and balanced.