Posted on 11/09/2010 3:15:17 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
Oh, my.
Women more often worked at home or around the farm.
Women and careers is a definite late 20th century idea...a half century I have lived btw and watched change with my own eyes
It’s an indulgence or maybe a freedom...nowadays it gives couples simply more money...a bigger home, better vacations and maybe private school
Prior to modern appliances and professional volunteer armies...women were busy cooking on less efficient stoves, washing by hand, canning and prepping food stores, sewing and all sorts of thing to keep a home running wihc required a lot of time each day.
For the record, I prefer a mom at home with kids when they are young...by middle school should she wish or if the family needs it then by all means work but this notion that being home is not good enough or antiquated is poppycock and if Sarah said that then she is wrong.
I support her and consider her an exceptional female in a precise use of that word but I do find things she utters I don’t like and this and girl power are part of that.
that crime of discrimination against minorities and women thing the left always harps on...so many drink the koolaid...everything up until the new reality that anyone under 40 here knows and believes in was wrong and ...mean..lol
Um, wives and mothers have been assisting with small business operations ever since restaurants and shoe manufacturing and dress Shops, and ... well, you get the picture. The war years amplified the reliance upon women power to operate businesses and manufacturing.
in an urban environment yes...my grandmother was a drapery seamstress at JC Penneys for years in the 50s and 60s and 70s .. after her children left home btw.. but there is no doubt that home appliance revolution freed women to work outside the home as much as anything
but this must have a career notion is relatively new...before feminism women had jobs occasionally..like men...not careers.
I am dealing with this as we speak...with my two daughters and sitters we have known for 5-8 years...
these young women get educated for 100,000s of dollars depending on school and expect to get married and have kids too and have it all and they get conflicted
you have to educate them or they get left behind socially..but it’s expensive
most I know aside from docs...and even some of them...are listening more to their bodies and hearts and not fembot culture and are looking to have babies before 30 and to stay home if they can..which begs why did I spend 250,000 dollars on that Masters?
almost without exception of folks I know...those women who can afford to stay home but don’t are liberals who have something to prove or feel that being a stay at home mom is beneath them
I support stay at home moms..unless folks are impoverished. I’m married to one who gave up a good paying job to be at home and mom to our brood and I love that...it’s better for the kids.
I saw that interview with Palin...it was not exactly like this writer portrays it but Sarah is a bit fembot...no question of that...but unlike most she likes men too.
It’s a part of her I try to ignore...no one is perfect..if she gets too dogmatic about it I will get less enthusiastic.
I find her exceptional...distinct from most women in her ability to lead or inspire...but I can do without Girl Power rah rah
btw...where I live outside Franklin...most moms are home or work out of the home...those we know in grade school anyhow...kept down by neanderthal husbands no doubt....
That view is not uncommon in the social conservative movement.
I will only go so far as to say that it is better for children to be raised by their parents, and that in most cases where I read about families who “have” to have the mothers working, it appears to be a choice, not a necessity.
Single mothers are often stuck with no other choice — which is why I don’t think single motherhood is a good choice for children (or single fatherhood for that matter).
In our family, I offered to quit my job if my wife wanted to work, but she did not, and has only gone back to work on a part-time basis now that the children are older. I have the advantage (by choice) of living close to home and having a job that allows me flexibility to take time when needed with the children.
We all make choices in our lives, and I think it’s good for people to be able to discuss their opinion of those choices.
My guess is that if this writer hadn’t invoked Sarah Palin, the conversation in this thread would have been much different.
If Sarah Palin came out tomorrow arguing for abortion, I have no doubt that a good number of freepers would be defending her position. Worse, if a left-wing rag SAID she had come out supporting abortion, a good number of freepers would believe it AND defend it, rather than rightly questioning whether the author really understood what Palin was saying.
I’ve always been a great admirer of Horowitz despite a dear friend warning me off him because he had once worked with Mr. Horowitz years ago.
DH did not have to go on tv and trash talk about the money that was owed him by Christine. It looked childish and silly and vindictive. He was obviously directed by Rove to do this smear. I wonder how many MEN owe DH money but he keeps his mouth shut and quietly draws a line through the debt.
I stick by what I said: he behaved in a childish and unprofessional way.
I didn’t see him on TV. It would be a lie to say the COD didn’t have some baggage out there. People she may have po’ed over money and stuff like that, I can understand why they may have a problem with her.
There is a lesson to be learned here. Many young people are going to be in trouble if they want to run for office in the future. What they post on the internet, who they have business dealings with, are going to be really hard to hide.
I heard Horowitz say he didn’t make a deal out of it because he would still prefer the way she would vote over Coons.
I don’t think that is childish.
He is on a local radio show here once a week. I haven’t heard him say anything bad about Palin.
I do know Jed Babbin thinks she is a goofball.
That is a broad brush you are using there don't you think.
Well, now he said he didn’t make a big deal out of it - after making a BIG deal out of it; so I’m convinced he was initially carrying the water of Rove, etc. and then - after how many emails? - thought better of it. Who knows?
Firstly, Sarah would never come out in favor of abortion - her whole live is a rebuke to the horrors of abortion. BUT! If the Divine Sarah - may Allah forbid - got a stroke and suddenly began supporting abortion - you can damn well bet I won’t prop her up.
Silly proposition, kcvl!
Well, I can’t think of any issue that’s come up yet where a good number of freepers haven’t defended her. This included her endorsement of John McCain and Carly Fiorina, her quitting her governorship two years early, and her political correctness attacks against the word “retarded”.
Yes, I used an extreme example, but it was to make a point. If it gets some people to think, I believe we will all be better off. Palin needs to be supported on the basis of what she says and does, and not the other way around.
Palin believes in evolution? Who knew?
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