*grumble*

[ksmith]

The root story about the apparent jockeying for position between 2 CNBC financial reporters is balanced enough at first glance--although I wonder if age differences would be noted so obviously if men were involved. But the Huffington Post headline stating that "CNBC Insists There's No Catfighting Between Its Anchors" just irritates the hell out of me, and not just because it's a standard HuffPo crank-the emotion-up-just-a-little-more headline. Yes, it's the term "catfighting," that handy denigrating catch-all that I've seen used to refer to disagreements between females of all ages and professions, no matter the roots of the disagreement. Because it's all about the hissing and scratching, which makes a lot of entertaining noise, but really doesn't mean anything. No genuine positions of strength. No heartfelt principles being argued. No ambition or ego. It's just girlfighting, and isn't it all one step above jello wrestling anyway?

Yes, I did expect more from a blog/website run by a woman. Guess I expected too much from Ms Huffington.

Update: And now the headline, which is buried on the Media page, reads: "CNBC Insists Burnett, Bartiromo Get Along." I have a feeling it was edited for space, not because of any sudden dawning that maybe they'd made a really lousy choice of words.

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[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

I don't despair but I know it will be a long, hard, struggle which will require generations and generations to complete.

And that shouldn't be surprising. Why WOULD the entire male sex, worldwide, want to give up all its privileges, status, etc. for the benefit of people it has been conditioned to believe are incapable and unworthy? How eager is the average general or admiral to let a civilian plumber plan a military compaign? Few military officers of flag rank think any civilians have what it takes to do a flag officer's job. And--what's going to happen to them if equality comes? Some of them are going to find that they aren't at the top of the heap anymore.

That is exactly the resistance to feminism in this country at the professional level: women *are* taking places that men (in my childhood) assumed were theirs by right...places in medical school and law school and Harvard Business School and so on. Nobody likes being kicked out of their entitlement...whatever it is. Nobody likes to believe that their entitlement has nothing to do with their innate quality, either. It's much easier to think status, money, and opportunity was lost unfairly.

The only long-term victory--by which I mean true equality of opportunity, not squashing everyone in the same mold--will come with decades to centuries of steady, firm, intentional work.