Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Clerical Workistan

Metro’s mayor’s race blog, Fight For Room 215, asked all the candidates how they would get an unemployed young person a job instead of deciding to become a drug dealer.

The candidates gave the typical responses — “Drugs are bad, mmmkay, it’s better and safer to get a real job,” etc. Tom Knox said he wants to set up career training centers, also. But kudos to Bob Brady for giving the honest answer — uhh, if I’m mayor, I could get this one person a freaking job — although it left a little to be desired:

Bob Brady: It depends on who the person is. …If it’s a young man I can always help them get into a trade, if it’s a young lady you can help them get into a clerical position someplace. You have to get them skilled and trained. If the people want to work they’ll work.

And they wonder why we don’t have any female candidates for mayor. (They have to rise up from clerical work, which is harder to do than rising up from being a tradesman.)

What would you say? [Fight For Room 215]
Mayor’s race: One party, one gender [Inquirer]

If You Want To Be Happy For The Rest Of Your Life, Never Trust Forbes When Choosing A Wife

I’ve been trying to get my head around this pseudo-advice column from Forbes with the snappy title, “Don’t Marry Career Women.”

There are, really, too many questions about it to ask in one post, but I’ll try a few: Who approved this article? What search terms did they use to find the excellent stock photography in the slideshow? Is the writer of this piece ever going to get laid again? If your wife works as well, why is your house more likely to be messy — wouldn’t the extra cash allow you to hire a maid? Who goes to Forbes for dating advice? Isn’t that like going to Maxim for in-depth geopolitical commentary?

And that’s just a sampling of what’s going on in my head. But, really, the best part — besides the slideshow, which you should watch — is the article’s closing paragraph:

A word of caution, though: As with any social scientific study, it’s important not to confuse correlation with causation. In other words, just because married folks are healthier than single people, it doesn’t mean that marriage is causing the health gains. It could just be that healthier people are more likely to be married.

So, after an article where the writer has confused correlation with causation, he warns us not to confuse correlation with causation. Thanks, Forbes.

Update, 6-ish: The article appears to have been taken down, furthering speculation that the staff of The Onion hacked into Forbes.com and put up that article.

Don’t Marry Career Women [Forbes via Gawker]
The tele-vision version starred Sandra Bullock [14th Windiest State]