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It didn't touch on that, but there are these gems: On raising kids: Jeff and his wife let their kids use sharp knives since they were four and soon had them wi
by Mz 9y ago
It didn't touch on that, but there are these gems:
On raising kids: Jeff and his wife let their kids use sharp knives since they were four and soon had them wielding power tools, because if they hurt themselves, they’d learn. Jeff says his wife’s perspective is “I’d much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid.”
On choosing a romantic partner: When Jeff decided he was ready to settle down, his friends set him up on tons of blind dates. He eventually knew he’d found his wife when he met someone truly resourceful. “I wanted a woman who could get me out of a third-world prison” Jeff said.
I am a former military wife, so I am pretty can do, and I believe that not letting kids do anything in order to "protect" them is actively harmful. But I wanted my sons to reach adulthood having learned to be resourceful without losing any body parts to do it. I succeeded in both those goals.
Edit: I guess I am partly saying "How resourceful is his wife, really, if she isn't confident she can teach the kids to play with knives safely?
Slacker.
- corpMaverick 9y ago> How resourceful is his wife, really, Well, she married a multi-millionaire.
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- Mz 9y agoAs a former military wife who helped build my husband's career, raised two special needs kids on a tight budget, homeschooled them when the school system failed them, etc, this comment really ticks me off. It is like saying women are only whores and their only measure of worth is being good at extracting money from men by sleeping with them. The more money they extract without really producing anything of value, the more we praise them. I find it grotesque that anyone would make such a remark. It also feels very personally insulting to me as it dismisses my competence as a mother based on the fact that I failed to marry a millionaire. I really can't manage to express how completely inappropriate I feel the remark is. To the assholes downvoting this: you are sexist pigs. May you burn in hell.
- coldtea 9y ago>It also feels very personally insulting to me as it dismisses my competence as a mother based on the fact that I failed to marry a millionaire. How exactly does it "dismisses your competence" as a mother? Parent commenter merely said (and that in jest) that Bezos' wife managing to snatch a millionaire proves she's resourceful. So, even if the parent had said it seriously, at worst it would only imply that your failing to marry a millionaire means you've failed to prove you're resourceful in THAT particular way. You could still be resourceful in millions of other ways. It says absolutely nothing about anybody's general resourcefulness or competence "as a mother". Nor it implies that women should do that (snatch a millionaire). If anything, even if the whole thing is obviously said jokingly, it implicitly would seem to condemn the practice. >I really can't manage to express how completely inappropriate I feel the remark is. Well, surely you can't seem to be able to express it in a coherent manner. >To the assholes downvoting this: you are sexist pigs. May you burn in hell. Or you know, they simply disagree with what you wrote. And your added swearing doesn't help your case either. Language.
- Mz 9y agoI seem to be the most prominent woman here. I got there in part by biting my tongue a lot in the face of a lot of less than respectful stuff driven by sexist social norms. I generally go to pains to not cuss "at" people, even though I tend to swear like a sailor and use the F word like other people use very. But this whole thing is simply beyond the pale. If I joked that Paul Graham married well and this clearly is evidence of his resourcefulness/his biggest accomplishment, that would get flagged to death so fast your head would spin. There is absolutely nothing that makes his or your comment fit the guidelines of engaging in a generally respectful fashion. I am essentially being called a cheap whore and told to get a sense of humor for finding that incredibly inappropriate.
- candiodari 9y agoIs this really sexist though ? I mean, it's not like the opinions people have of men who have insignificant accomplishments but marry a rich woman are any different.
- jopsen 9y ago> On raising kids: Jeff and his wife let their kids use sharp knives since they were four and soon had them wielding power tools, because if they hurt themselves, they’d learn. Jeff says his wife’s perspective is “I’d much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid.” Sounds like, they are exaggerating the risk for dramatic effect :) Letting your kids help out in the kitchen, etc.. do wood works, etc.. is not without risk, but the risks are tiny. Dramatic exaggeration is just a provocative counter balance to the many parents who won't let the kids peel potatoes because they could get hurt.
- Mz 9y agoI used to pay accident claims. Here are some real life medical records I had to review in my job: One child lost an eye because someone left a loaded BB gun laying around in the house and another child picked it up and shot them. The other child probably thought it was a toy gun. A toddler fell and broke their leg. It took the parents two to four days of the child refusing to bear weight on the leg for them to decide that a doctor's visit was in order. A child went for an unsupervised ride on an ATV on a weekend morning while the parents slept in. Result: Their lower leg was amputated in the accident. They were nine years old. But you go ahead and keep thinking that nothing genuinely bad ever happens to children when their parents are cavalier about risks to their safety.
- candiodari 9y agoWe also left out that he pretty much brought tax evasion to mail order. I would say that that's his single biggest accomplishment by far.