\u201cIf my wife will let me.\u201d That\u2019s what Richard Branson said when he was asked whether he\u2019d go to Mars. \u201cIt may be a one-way trip\u2026. So maybe I\u2019ll wait till the last ten years of my life, and then maybe go, if my wife will let me\u201d (Klein, This Changes Everything, p.288). Does he really think no one will notice how inauthentic he was being? He\u2019s one of the most powerful men in the world. He doesn\u2019t need anyone\u2019s permission for anything.<\/p>\n

On top of that, he won\u2019t take her?<\/p>\n

And on top of that, she doesn\u2019t have a name? (I\u2019m surprised he didn\u2019t say \u2018the wife\u2019 rather than \u2018my wife\u2019\u2014to underscore his view that women are all just so interchangeable.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tiresome.<\/p>\n

Wife\/girlfriend as Mom. So the man can continue to be a child, just one of the boys.<\/p>\n

Wife\/girlfriend as authority. See, I\u2019m not sexist, women have the real power.<\/p>\n

Even from our most intelligent, most capable, men.<\/p>\n

So very tiresome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf my wife will let me.\u201d That\u2019s what Richard Branson said when he was asked whether he\u2019d go to Mars. \u201cIt may be a one-way trip\u2026. So maybe I\u2019ll wait till the last ten years of my life, and then maybe go, if my wife will let me\u201d (Klein, This Changes Everything, p.288). Does he … <\/p>\n

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