Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.
It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?