Broad Generalizations

Adam Carolla is complaining about his wife again, this time its spilled over into Greg Fitzsimmons' podcast, Fitzdog Radio.  Rantings start at the 31 minute mark, they go on for about 17 minutes, until he backpedals and says his wife is "the best person in the world".

(Note:  Fitzdog Radio is better than the name suggests; it used to be called The Greg Fitzsimmons Experience, but a week or two ago, it got folded into the Adam Carolla-Brand Ace Broadcasting Network, and the corporate big-wigs told him to rename it.  Why didn't they just call it G-Fitz Radio?)

They seem to compound each other's middle-aged-ness.

His complaint is that his wife, Lynette, has no job and does absolutely no work around the house.  He says that the Women's Movement (which he compares to a "bowel movement") told women they no longer had to do any cooking and cleaning.   The problem, he says, is when these women also refuse to get real jobs, meaning they do nothing but lounge around while the maid cleans, the nanny raises the kids, and the man goes out and makes a living.  He says this attitude is also found among blacks, claiming they say "I'm not your slave anymore" while refusing to take menial jobs.

"I'm not your maid."

He loves making generalizations about why certain groups of people don't have jobs.  Other times, he'll talk about how people on welfare are just lazy, that they don't take personal responsibility because we let them blame society for their problems.  He thinks if we took away their welfare, they'd all shape up and get jobs. 

Well, Aceman, you can make all the generalizations you want, some of them might even be true in a broad sense, but when you start applying them to individuals, you get yourself in trouble.  In this case, Carolla, you apply a stereotype to your wife and by doing so, you give her an excuse for being a lazy-ass individual. 

Your wife is your problem and you're blaming it on society instead of taking personal responsibility.  If you're going to make broad, retrograde generalizations about woman-kind, at least have the consistency to put a broad in her place.  You are the bitch of a bitch; she does no work because you let her get away with it.  Maybe if you take away her welfare, she'll shape up and get a job (other than her "parenting" podcast). 

On that parenting podcast, Lynette talked about how she gave up on breast-feeding after a week because it was inconvenient.  She says "I'm not into that hippy-dippy parenting, I'm, like, more traditional, old-school, ya know, the pushing of the breast-feeding....leave the woman alone if she doesn't wanna breast-feed."  

Lynette, that is the one job that neither your husband nor the nanny could do, and you refused to do it.  Is that the, like, more traditional way?

 

In the real old-school, women used their tits for mooching and nursing.