Mr Noer: Suck your own lackluster balls

Dear Mr Noer:

Please don't make it so painfully obvious that you are a penile-challenged, deeply insecure man who probably can't get laid.

And now, kindly go screw yourself!

Internet Explodes With Appalled Reactions, Forbes Pulls Article Then Replaces

 

POSTED: 11:39 am CDT August 25, 2006
UPDATED: 1:30 pm CDT August 25, 2006

 

A magazine that usually sticks to drumming up lists of the world's richest men and exploring every angle of the American rat race is causing quite a stir on the Internet Friday.

 

In a controversial article by Michael Noer, the writer breaks it down to unmarried men: Whatever you do, don't marry a career woman.

 

Why?

 

"To put it bluntly, the more successful she is, the more likely she is to grow dissatisfied with you," Noer said. "A word of advice -- marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career."

 

This isn't a conclusion that would make most upstanding men happy, given that successful men are usually attracted to women who have similar aspirations.

Noer cites studies in various journals that say the professional woman, who has a college degree, works at least 35 hours a week and therefore earns more than $30,000 a year. She's more likely to get divorced and cheat on her husband with co-workers. She will be either angry about having kids or angry about not having kids.

Noer argues that marriage is hardest when both partners work outside the home, and that research shows divorce is more likely the more hours a woman works.

Conversely, the same is not true of a man's workload.

 

The working women NBC talked to called it outrageous. The response online was quick and in most cases brutal.

 

Hundreds of postings popped up in online chat rooms.

 

"I can't even imagine what would make someone say that, it's a throwback to the 70s, 60s or 50s and it's mind boggling," said one woman.

 

One blog called it "blood-boilingly misogynistic."

 

As you might imagine, Forbes.com removed the article, later re-posting it, accompanied by another article, from a happily married female Forbes writer who's worked for over 20 years.

 

But for many, the damage was already done.

 

"This article highlights the epitome of male insecurity," another woman said. "I guess there are still men out there who want their women to just sit and look pretty. How prehistoric and irresponsible of Forbes to perpetuate this ideal."