Yurt
01-25-2008, 12:28 PM
Women leave town and children in hands of men
TORONTO (Reuters) - What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home?
The exodus was part of a social experiment filmed for Canada's national broadcaster, the CBC. Touted as an exploration of gender issues in contemporary Canadian culture, "The Week the Women Went" is based on a BBC program by the same name.
Recent government statistics show that 70 percent of Canadian households are run by women. The majority of these women also hold full-time jobs.
In Hardisty, an oil-patch town in the prairie province of Alberta where the program was shot, many of the men work away from home for days at a time.
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And the show has sparked discussion. Local media called it "sexist" and debate online has been lively.
"What a misandric (man hating) idea for show," said a viewer identified as Andrew. "What is wrong with Canadian society that we need to continuously promote how important women are to society at the expense of men."
What if all the men left (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_women;_ylt=AhRlnKUm2rPwuEAHrBpG6UoEtbAF)
I have no problem appreciating women, however, it is true that society as a whole belittled the male role and the male himself in order that there be so-called equality. I think the idea of this show is plain stupid. It is not "reality" far from it. You can't simply take two people, form a family, without or without children and then yank one spouse away and say --- see, that is what life is like without her. BS, if you never had her, your life would of course be different, but not as if she was instantly yanked away.
TORONTO (Reuters) - What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home?
The exodus was part of a social experiment filmed for Canada's national broadcaster, the CBC. Touted as an exploration of gender issues in contemporary Canadian culture, "The Week the Women Went" is based on a BBC program by the same name.
Recent government statistics show that 70 percent of Canadian households are run by women. The majority of these women also hold full-time jobs.
In Hardisty, an oil-patch town in the prairie province of Alberta where the program was shot, many of the men work away from home for days at a time.
....
And the show has sparked discussion. Local media called it "sexist" and debate online has been lively.
"What a misandric (man hating) idea for show," said a viewer identified as Andrew. "What is wrong with Canadian society that we need to continuously promote how important women are to society at the expense of men."
What if all the men left (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_women;_ylt=AhRlnKUm2rPwuEAHrBpG6UoEtbAF)
I have no problem appreciating women, however, it is true that society as a whole belittled the male role and the male himself in order that there be so-called equality. I think the idea of this show is plain stupid. It is not "reality" far from it. You can't simply take two people, form a family, without or without children and then yank one spouse away and say --- see, that is what life is like without her. BS, if you never had her, your life would of course be different, but not as if she was instantly yanked away.