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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
About the same time that ppnyc came back on the boards, a friend of mine got a letter from the wife of her ex-boyfriend. The letter was a reply to a letter my friend had sent her ex- a year previously. My friend's letter was a lament that things had not worked out between her and her ex, but that she wished him happiness with his new wife and the baby on the way.
The new wife felt it was necessary--a year later--to return the letter and to remind my friend that she (the wife) had won and my friend had lost. She flaunted the baby, and the marriage, and the man. She said that the pretty girls always win, and that my friend should lose weight if she ever wanted to find a man. She mocked and belittled and degraded my friend's previous love for her ex-, and she was mean and cruel and lording about it.
The same day my friend posted the letter, the same day I volunteered to beat the shit out of this horrible woman on my friend's behalf, I checked in here and found ppnyc was mocking RB for being fat and barely for being unmarried and dismissing the notion that she was immune from divorce, pain or heartache.
I decided that day that I really didn't want to come back here and be subjected to the crap that my friend, RB, barley, gwinky, the other FBetties and the poor female attorneys that work with ppnyc are subjected to. I decided to stay on hiatus for a few more weeks. I was planning on staying for a few more, but Sebby's obstinance on the PB sucked me back in.
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But my friend is an awesome woman, and so is RB and so is barely and so is gwinky and so are all the other FB Betties. And so am I. So fuck you if you think that my marital status is a mark against me. Fuck you if you think my childlessness makes me less of a woman. Fuck you if your inferiority complex about being "just" a paralegal makes you think that you have to find something that you're better at than us.
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Look. I've been in law for a long time. The women partners that make it are on wheels and never see kids, divorced three times etc. Those that do job share are not really part time. If you consider 80 hours a week pt/ The ones that are nice are usually lonely since they are stuck at work. Those that are balanced usually go in house less of a commute. Chicken or egg? who knows but it is far too common to ignore.
Women get the shaft. And it ain't their fault it is the way it is. you can't have it all. or if ya do it is at a great price in some other regard.
