JLO: It's Impossible To Be A Successful Mother and Have a Career

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[AX10]

1. AX10: "It's Impossible To Be JLO and have talent".

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2. . . .

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[Darth_Kitten]

5. haha!!!!

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[fortyfeetunder]

34. Ding! We have a winner!

I hope she goes into reclusion and doesn't come out.
OTOH, Madonna, who is successful in balancing her career and motherhood, needs to school her..

[Left Is Write]

3. I have a couple of sisters who would be VERY surprised to hear that.

[Darth_Kitten]

4. Wow.

:eyes:

she really is something. :(

[Aristus]

6. Man! People are STILL paying attention to J-Ho?

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7. Apparently.

This was news to me too.

[Tallison]

20. Don't insult prostitutes

Please. I'm serious. Slurs against them are beneath the dignity of the Democratic ideal. Thanks.

[LynneSin]

8. Oh god! She's going to be Rick Santorum's role model

I can see Rickass now "Look at J-Lo, she recognized that being a mother is a fulltime job and gave up her career to stay at home and raise the kids"

I think I just barfed a lil in my mouth!

[LiberalVoice]

9. Well im not really a fan of her work but I give her props for this.

You canot be a good mother and be a star in Hollywood....The amount of time you have to spend away from your kids makes it impossible.

[bettyellen]

11. then no one who has a demanding job should be a parent.

for fuck sake, how this stil all gets put on women is beyond me.

[LiberalVoice]

14. For fucks sake...

She obviously wants to be more involved in her childrens lives otherwise she wouldnt be thinking about quitting her work...I said mother because in this specific case we happen to be talking about a woman. I didnt put anything "on women" so save it.

[bettyellen]

21. well , did it occur to you that the dad has a very demanding show biz

career? doesn't seem like it occured to you or anybody else that he should also be making time for the family.
i'm not pointing a finger at you, i'm saying it's most people. lots of them women too. and it's fucked up.

[LiberalVoice]

32. I didn't designate which one of them should be doing anything...

So you're telling me since I mentioned JLO I also have to mention something about her husband? Was the article about whoever her SO is? No I dont think so. The article was about JLO and her saying she couldn't be a good mother and have a career. What her husbands opinion is doesnt matter.

[bettyellen]

35. anytime you catch yourself saying "the mother should..." stop a second

and realize it's sexist to not voice any expectations on the other human being responsible for that child. whether or not he's mentioned in the article, he exists.
otherwise you're perpetuating a very unfair and sexist status quo.

[LiberalVoice]

36. I never said your mother should...

I would in fact think its unfair to try and voice an opinion about someone I know nothing about. I cannot comment on her SO because I dont know his what he thinks.

[bettyellen]

37. now you're talking about MY mother? i NEVER brought my mom into this....

but whatever dude.
okay, so at this point the dad's off the hook because he's not been mentioned in terms of child rearing? that's pretty much the problem, no one, including yourself thinks he is actually obligated to make any sacrifices, yet they are comfortable telling the woman what she should do. sorry, that's incredibly sexist, and you're just making excuses at this point.

[LiberalVoice]

42. Ok

At some point during our conversation you have managed to twist everything we've talked about and make up a completely new argument. How could I possibly have said he is not "obligated to make any sacrifices" when my last post in this conversation was telling you that I will not comment on him?

I guess its pretty easy to think you're right when you make things up, huh?

[blondeatlast]

25. Goldie Hawn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, just to start...

Yeah, it's a real struggle. :eyes:

[LiberalVoice]

33. It is a struggle...

Hollywood doesn't leave you with much time....You're constantly on the road country to country press venue to press venue.

[bliss_eternal]

38. You named some good one's...

There's also Sally Fields and others that have made the balance--sans nannies.

Good for them.

JLO is off her nut.

[stanwyck]

41. And yet

Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, and numerous others have raised children who are at least as stable and happy as other young adults. And Chelsea Clinton seems to be a very intelligent and charming young woman...and her parents definitely had very hectic careers.
I disagree. You can be a good mother. And a star.
And you can be a truly horrible mother and be home 24-7.

[havocmom]

10. JLO, young, stupid and her ass is big

just the truth

[hyphenate]

12. Perhaps for someone too lazy to

put up with children, too uppity to stop spending as much time and money on themselves, and too self-centered to actually realize that millions of women are doing just that, day after day, year after year in this country and almost every other developed country in the world.

[miss_kitty]

13. So when did she have kids?

:shrug:

[Deja Q]

15. Yes, we should all take J-O's advice. She knows more than the rest of us.

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[Dastard Stepchild]

16. I'll pass that on to my single mother friends...

As well as my lower income friends that choose to work because they just HATE spending time with their children. Working at Target is sooooo much better than family time.

Oh wait... is she chastizing women who makes millions a year and can afford to take time off, but then don't?
Oh.. ok... well, I don't know much about their lives. They must deserve her moralizations.

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[hickman1937]

17. Shouldn't this apply to Marc too?

Is he going to stay home too?:shrug:

[latebloomer]

18. You mean we're going to stop being assaulted by her low-talent self?

Hallelujah!!

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19. Praise Hay-Zeus!

[wanpete]

22. her quote was really dumb. she should stick to the no talent musical

career and clothing line. (although I must say I did like her in Selena and Out of Sight) Since those movies, she's been on a tank.

[JohnKleeb]

23. Explains why my mom is such a failure

sarcasm.

[blondeatlast]

24. Bunch of "Jennies from the block" might take issue with that...

They do it day in, day out.

[blondeatlast]

26. How rich is this? LOL!

She explains: "Either you are going to be a bad mom and be a really good career woman and wife, or a good mom and career woman and bad wife, or a good mom and a good wife and your career is going to suck."

Or you can strike out.

J-Lo, sacrifice--give up the career, please!

[Ramsey]

27. Maybe true if you are a talentless bimbo

Yes, I can say bimbo, I am a female personage.

[blondeatlast]

28. She's pretty much struck out on two fronts:

career and companionship.

Hope she can get an EXCELLENT nanny for little Jenny from the Bel-air cul-de-sac.

[Gothic Sponge]

29. Who is JLO?

[blondeatlast]

30. AKA Ennifer-Bay. nt

[Akoto]

31. Obviously haven't met my mother.

I'm still living at home -- just don't have the money to live on my own in today's economy -- and have really come to appreciate my mother as I've gotten older.

She's worked hard (as has my father) to support her family for as long as I've been alive, and I've never wanted for anything that I genuinely needed. I grew up healthy and happy, and I'm now pursuing my own dreams. If that's not a sign of a successful mother *and* career woman, I don't know what is.

[SOteric]

39. Did she mention anything about whether it's possible

to walk and chew gum at the same time?

[blondeatlast]

43. It's J-Lo. What do you think?

I'm surprised she makes her lips move and sounds come out at the same time.

[bliss_eternal]

40. Is she somehow trying to rationalize the fact that she is childless?

If so, she should stick to speaking for herself and not try to condemn millions of women that do so, with and without support every day.

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[ghostsofgiants]

44. While that's clearly the biggest pile of bullshit ever...

Let her stick to her belief. That way, once she has kids, we'll be rid of her for good.