Hanna Rosin is a hack. A man featured in Rosin’s book calls her out on her lack of journalistic integrity. Rosin basically had a theory on stay-at-home-dads and manipulated this man’s interview responses in order to fit that theory. While this stuff happens all the time, especially in trend pieces and trendy books, I consider it a worse journalistic affront than anything Jonah Lehrer did. But journalists don’t think this way because they all do it – they all fish for quotes and they all cherry-pick the information they report.
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This is a pussy riot. A professor writing at Role Reboot offers 15 tips for single mothers on how to maintain a proper work/life/one-night-stand balance. It’s worth noting that she describes herself in her bio as having “made a leap” from married mother of two to single motherhood. Wheeee!
Here’s my favorite of her tips:
When a man wants to whisk you away for a weekend fling, be very clear that the babysitting cost is a financial burden he must share. The first time a man invited me away for a weekend, I was so uncomfortable navigating the shame I felt for my economic insufficiencies, I resorted to texting him. I didn’t have the guts to say it out loud. He, of course, offered to share the babysitting bucks. And, if a man doesn’t offer, he’s not worth the babysitting bucks. I’m certain of that.
What a psychopath. As if when a man offers up a weekend fling and then offers up babysitting money that one *must* attend. YOLO, right? Of course, she contradicts herself with her next tip:
Rethink the structure of dating. Dating is truly a waste of time and babysitting costs. I have few precious hours and resources that I spend away from my kids. If the man doesn’t deliver with witty conversation, a great meal and some enticing swagger, I curse him upside down, backward and forward (in my head of course) and then, I curse for myself for wasting valuable resources. I form friendships with men and if they evolve into something more, great.
She presupposes that she’s perfectly convivial. Or maybe she doesn’t think that’s even something she’d have to strive for. All I hear when reading this is “I am a woman with tits and pussy. I require of you all the giggles, vacays, footrubs, and orgasms that I demand. Babysitting money too. All I am offering up to you is a faint glimmer of hope that I will invest my time and my scarce (?) vaginal resources in you. I am woman, hear me roar…for the shit that I can’t and won’t provide for myself. If you don’t come through with these things then you are not “worth it”. Staaaaaart NOW!” To extend her logic a bit further, perhaps she should just start billing the men she dates for her oh-so-valuable time. This places her very near hooker territory.
She’s also modest:
Avoid dating breeders. Men in their 40s who have no children will inevitably want to have children. When I left my husband, male friends I’ve known for years who had yet to marry and have children expressed interest. And why wouldn’t they? I can hold the household down and I am fertile. I make good babies. But, I’m 40. After breast-feeding two children, my nipples are finally standing up perky again. My ass is defying gravity and I’ve got a flat stomach despite two c-sections and laparoscopic surgery. I’m thankful to have my body back and I’m happy to have children who are growing more independent with each day.
I believe the phrase is “Tits or GTFO” and I believe it was invented precisely for this reason.
But excuse me for a bit. I’m going to call my mother and thank her for not being this woman.
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Good Lord, it’s a female version of Tom Leykis. Only 40 and with two kids.
According to the author bio, the guy Hannah Rosin misquoted blogs, and his site is called “Beta Dad”.
what the fucking hell.
no sympathy for that whiny idiot who got “mischaracterized” by hannah rosin. easy for me to say this as an anonymous internet commenter, but he sounds like a pussy “waaaa she tuwned me intwo a cawacature”.
he wanted to be famous and be in a trendy book, he laid down with a cunt and got fleas
rosin is not a hack, she’s actually pretty good at her job, which is to manipulate public opinion
@ TFG
HILARIOUS. You can’t make this shit up.
she’s similar to tom in her sexual aggression, but is still his polar opposite in pragmatic terms.
tom leykis adamantly preached against dating single moms and wouldn’t have given this chick the time of day. tom would have berated her at length for allowing her kids to grow up without a dad. he had episodes where he talked at length about the average outcomes for children of single moms being much worse (education, drug use, criminality…). he specifically told his male viewers ‘single moms don’t count’ and to avoid them for even sex. this was for a number of reasons, including that the condom might break and the guy would be stuck paying for 18 years. single moms hated tom leykis and would call up trying unsuccessfully to diss him. tom liked spewing venom their way.
for all her intellectual strengths, this woman is too stupid to understand that 1) equating men’s (probable short term) sexual interest means anything significant to her long term needs 2) at 40yo, she is likely going to go downhill quite rapidly in terms of looks and that even male interest in her at this point is time limited. she has no idea what the world is like for the average 45yo-50+yo single mom & 3) after 2 kids, her pussy is likely quite loose. men interested in her might tolerate that for a one night or few night stand but grow less enthused subsequently.
indeed, few quality men that she prefers will likely want to date a 40yo single mom of 2 for anything more serious.
she’s maintained a degree of her looks:
http://lmu.academia.edu/KaterinaZacharia
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/classics/faculty/
but, the body shot in the second pic shows how wide and ‘thick’ her body likely is, especially with the clothes off.
“after 2 kids, her pussy is likely quite loose”
Lol she anticipated that point and took care to mention that her two children were delivered by c-section.
Holy shit she’s ugly. Her dates are black guys, old beta white guys and dreg/drunk young white guys.
I pity those two children. What an unfit mother.
The one redeeming quality this woman has is that she is very into her Greek heritage. Maybe an older Greek man would like her for that reason and be willing to give her a chance. I think that might be her only hope.
PA:
“Holy shit she’s ugly. Her dates are black guys, old beta white guys and dreg/drunk young white guys.”
are you extrapolating this from the traits we know of her life or did she specifically mention these are her dating options?
not that i would necessarily disagree with such a conclusion, but i’m just wondering where you’re coming from…
btw, i don’t think she is facially ugly- but too much baggage to be anything more than a one night stand for most quality guys she’d be interested in and of course, i’m grading her facial looks on the curve since she’s 40yo.
also, tough call- what’s worse to guys: looking at a c section scar or a loose pussy? some c scars are very clean looking. others look disgusting, especially when the woman has a ‘thick’ frame as this woman does. looking at the abdominal/pelvic region is like looking at a loose ‘kangaroo’ pouch that unceremoniously tapers to a tight, artificially stitched and skinny area. it’s as disgusting and discordant to a human frame as her inner being is to most quality guys.
first anonymous,
whatever the intentions of the guy, hanna rosin’s journalistic ethics are zero and her manipulation of the interview is prime example of that. this isn’t mutually exclusive.
Anonymous1: its an extrapolation based on her age, appearance, and personality/attitude. I know a gaggle of women in real life who are just like her for what it’s worth.
As I noted earlier in similar cases, I would never call a woman of her age and appearance “ugly” if she were a normal wife and mother or a spinster. But since this woman puts forth her twat & tits as her sole asset, I judge her harshly but fairly, and concurrently with her attitude.
This woman’s delusions are fundamentally very similar to those practiced by many women her age. It’s sad, but true. I suspect it ‘s a generational thing; once the smell of the 1970′s and 80′s wears off, I expect this to balance itself out again.
The one redeeming quality this woman has is that she is very into her Greek heritage.
IOW, her pussy is tight, but her asshole is loose.
@anonymous, her solo facial pic is either airbrushed, or was taken 10 yrs ago. The group photo tells all.
“I’m thankful to have my body back and I’m happy to have children who are growing more independent with each day.”
Sooner than she would like to think, they’ll be independent enough to Google their mom’s name and think “Oh. So THAT’s why I don’t have a dad.”.
Ideally, they’d become so independent as they grew up that they wouldn’t feel the need to call her or visit her when she’s in her sixties and those witty, swaggering men have long since stopped inviting her away for the weekend.
But the sad thing is, they probably won’t. They won’t even see anything wrong with the way they were brought up. Probably everybody they’ll know will have been brought up the same way, and none of them will be able to figure out why their lives seem so “off” from how they should be.
“The one redeeming quality this woman has is that she is very into her Greek heritage”
Tits or GTFO: does she support Golden Dawn?
Honestly, people wonder why Feminists aren’t taken seriously. Demonstrable dishonesty on one and and pathetic “I’m still attractive!” cries for attention on the other.
… I am fertile. I make good babies. But, I’m 40.
LOL. No, sugartits, of course nothing’s changed as you’ve aged. Your eggs and uterus are just as good as they ever were, and men want nothing more than to knock your thieving, entitled, disloyal ass up.
This chick is just bonkers. Ugly, too, judging from the group photo.
Sometimes older men are just looking for companionship and don’t care as much about sex. Especially if he already has children and doesn’t want anymore. It would be nice if his kids were mostly grown-up, since he would have more freedom. He might not want to be tied down by her young kids, though. I agree with her she should stay away from men around her own age, especially ones who don’t have children. They will all be looking for someone younger to start a family with.
white guys just do not cut the mustard
Men of Color keep their womens on lack down
“This places her very near hooker territory.”
Thats a slam on hookers. At least they’re honest about their profession.
And again white boys fall to the Intellectual firepower of Anti-Racist. The Man writes white guys just do not cut the mustard. They do not. white boys oppress and thieve from Men of Color and fail to stomp their shiny bad skin females. He also writes Men of Color keep their womens on lack down. Preach Brother. Magnificent performance. The Soldiers read Anti-Racist and cheer and look forward to our Dark meeting soon.
Loyola Marymount is a (nominally) Catholic school. Where’s Torquemada when you need him?
haha,
I wouldn’t get involved with a single mom….
I don’t have any kids-and no, unlike Hugo Skeezer, I don’t have to add-”tehe, not that I know of…..”
Quick, someone call David Fatrelle and tell him to put me on the misogynist list because I wouldn’t raise another man’s kids-but, oh wait, doesn’t he practice that religion called feminism where they brag about murdering babies, errr abortion every single day…….
and, uh probably dropping a match on a powder keg by dropping this link, but here goes
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/do-racists-make-a-better-first-impressions-th
I did a search on Zabasearch, and Katerina Zacharia is listed as forty-five years old, not forty. I’d rank her as about average for face, and her arms look fat to me, which frequently means that other body parts are, too.
Stoner:
Makes sense to me. I’ve been around enough softie diversity loving white leftists in grad school who were two-faced hypocrites who enjoyed keeping a couple token locals around so long as they acted all SWPL (yeah, I’m a bit bitter).
Give me PA to those twits any day of the week. At least he’d be straight about not wanting me as a neighbor instead of getting all uncomfortable when someone points out that “cool with all races” types are either hypocrites or patronizers who wanted to fix us non-whites.
Haha – “Avoid breeders.” I was thinking the same thing, hunny.
Spike,
Why would PA have a problem with you being his neighbor? Are you a bad neighbor?
Lara:
I ain’t white and he’s expressed a preference to live in a white community.
As for being a good neighbor, I’m a musician and have a preference for gaudy colors and tacky lawn decoration. Let’s just say that people who like the idea of neighborhood boards and community bylaws probably wouldn’t like me too much as a neighbor.
I am an amateur musician (guitar). On my extremely strict HOA neighborhood street there lives a drummer and a violinist. A teenage girl who lives with her parents is dating a high school guitarist. White hipster teenagers hang out on a corner near my house. They are all cool guys.
Yes, I am an advocate of white-only residential arrangements for white citizens of all income levels, not just for the rich. It’s another way of my saying that community is a human right and denying your citizens the means of community-formation falls under the UN definition of genocide.
That said, I have tolerance for non-black minority neighbors in small numbers. Blacks? Not so. One, because even if they are nice, it’s a fake, uneasy niceness. Two, they get visited by other blacks – if they have kids, their ghetto friends from shitty apartments nearby will always come over and hang out. Three, blacks have no love for me. They see me as Eloi feed and feel a truculent entitlement to the fruits, tangible and intangible, of my community and they give nothing back in exchange.
By the way Spike, I see your presumed cartoon likeness and I think you once posted your real miniature gravatar photo – tall, lanky, suit and red bowtie? It was had to tell, but you look white to me. Handsome too BTW, no homo.
Are you overembracing a non-white identity? Not rhetorical.
I’ll be honest PA, I don’t see how someone can have such a cut-and-dry zero-tolerance policy for blacks. It would be so difficult to implement such an arrangement that it becomes pointless to fantasize over it. That being said, there should not be specific policies to implement a certain amount of diversity into neighborhoods, cities, suburbs, regions, etc. But you’ve taken a preference for a buffer consisting of mostly whites and Asians and pushed it back to its extreme – no blacks whatsoever. A 5% black area is quite different than a 20% black area is quite different than an 80% black area. You’re implying a linear relationship between black demographic and the unsavory things that tend to enter neighborhoods along with blacks. But there is not a linear relationship. It is more discursive.
I should add…purely anecdote…I have a set of black neighbors across the hall of my apartment building. no unsavory characters come through with them even though the family consists of two high school/college aged kids. as a macro policy i don’t want to live near lots of blacks, but on the street level i can suss out which ones make good neighbors and which probably won’t. so my personal policy has a bias but it is not rigid.
Chuck, just a quick point. As a renter, its natural to be more tolerant. As a homeowner, you have a long-term investment in your property values.
PA’s attitude does seem intolerant, but I can kind of understand where he is coming from. I think he would like live in a neighborhood with a range of classes and types of white people. It does make life more interesting. I think he would like to do this without having to deal with black people and racial tension. Race relations have gotten so bad in this country that even everyday interactions can be problematic.
“I’ll be honest PA, I don’t see how someone can have such a cut-and-dry zero-tolerance policy for blacks.”
Not to be rude, but why take any chances?
So it’s not enough to love her, you have to love her kid too? What if her kid is an asshole?
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PA:
“That said, I have tolerance for non-black minority neighbors in small numbers. Blacks? Not so. One, because even if they are nice, it’s a fake, uneasy niceness. Two, they get visited by other blacks – if they have kids, their ghetto friends from shitty apartments nearby will always come over and hang out. Three, blacks have no love for me. They see me as Eloi feed and feel a truculent entitlement to the fruits, tangible and intangible, of my community and they give nothing back in exchange.”
i’m a non-white, non-black minority. but, i feel much the same way you do about blacks. i think you leave out an important consideration: the genetic effect west african descended blacks can have on phenotype. once a good looking person of any non-black race mixes with a west african descended black, there is a high likelihood the kid will take too much after the black lineage, esp facially (i.e. hair texture/length, nasal width/length, skin color…). i think the best example of this is to contrast heidi klum’s half- black kids with her obviously better looking pure white daughter.
a world of unfettered black, non-black mixing on a rapid timescale could easily have a deleterious and possibly permanent effect on facial phenotype, especially at the elite female levels of beauty. too many white chicks, don’t understand this and can produce part black daughters that aren’t as attractive as the white mom was in her prime. btw, i’m not trying to be insulting when i write this, but i think it’s what a lot of non-blacks feel, even if they can’t necessarily concretize their sentiments.
PA wasn’t talking about interbreeding with them. He just doesn’t want them on his street, period, and that’s what put a few folks in a tizzy here. As if he and his family will have an incomplete existence, without some Africans nearby.
Yes, have a feeling that she’s really 45. Looking at her CV, the dates of her degrees don’t seem to add up if she’s only 40.
I think what’s going on is that she’s having a hard time accepting the fact that her romantic market value has declined dramatically and she’s trying to convince herself that she’s “still got it” by convincing others that she’s “still got it.” After all, she must still be very desirable if she has rejected a flood of suitors who want her as the mother of their children.
Further to my previous comment, I did a search on Peoplefinders and I think there are two girls with the same name in California so maybe she is telling the truth about being 40.
Yes, I think you have Katerina Zacharia the professor confused with Katerina Zacharia the media executive. It seems one is 45 and the other (who wrote the piece).
Yes, I think you have Katerina Zacharia the professor confused with Katerina Zacharia the media executive. It seems one is 45 and the other (who wrote the piece) is really 40.
as a macro policy i don’t want to live near lots of blacks, but on the street level i can suss out which ones make good neighbors and which probably won’t. so my personal policy has a bias but it is not rigid.
Back in the 1970′s you had apartment complexes that would even ban children. This would make for safe, cheap areas where working-class and younger professional whites could live. The most disfunctional “families” would have to concentrate in areas that would tolerate them but also have low enough rents that they could pay.
But now you have section 8 spreading the disfunction throughout metro areas, plus later legislation outlawed discriminating against renters based on whether or not they have children, so soon you had baby mama La”Treecia moving in with her 4 future felon children.