Women, Work, and Freedom

Takimag ^ | 2013-01-20 | Nicholas Farrell

[cartan]

Willingly or not, women play a starring role in the death of the West.

Women in Europe and America have made one great big fat suicidal error as a result of modern feminism since the movement’s inception: They have confused work with freedom. This confusion has had catastrophic consequences for all of us because it has fatally infected the core activity of any healthy civilization: the creation and upbringing of children.

During World War II there was a chilling slogan stamped in wrought iron above the entrance gates of Auschwitz in Poland where it can still be seen: ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Labor Makes You Free); labor in this case meant work rather than giving birth.

That Nazi slogan could just as well be used nowadays by women in the West and their male collaborators (we know who you are) as their own slogan. What they have desired above all else (and got) this past half-century is work. 

They have decided that to work full-time in an office or factory makes them free. They have therefore also decided that to be a mother is a prison sentence that deprives them of freedom. They have then also decided: Motherhood Makes You a Slave.

They must be mad. The truth is the precise opposite. In the case of the Nazis, work meant not freedom but physical annihilation; in the case of Western women, not freedom but creative annihilation.

Nearly all work, if we mean the work that most people in the West do day after day in exchange for money, is a life sentence in prison. It is dull, repetitive, and soul-destroying. It does not liberate.

[cartan]

Good article.

[knarf]

Yes .. VERY good article.

I found when we decided to let God determine our family size, HE also determined (correctly) my income and provided progressively better and bigger vehicles ( at a time when two were needed because of my work and Debbie's needs .. HE provided two almost identical "twins" ... Chevy Citations ... loved 'em .. ).

Allowing God to determine your life in it's every form is the best, the healthiest, the most fulfilling and fulfilled way to breathe HIS air.

[exDemMom]

Yeah, right. Women have always worked. I’m afraid that something else needs to be blamed for the breakdown in families. Like maybe the fact that easy divorce and nihilistic lifestyles have been encouraged for the last couple of generations.

[Gabz]

Tank you.

[who knows what evil?]

It also means that those children are raised by women other than their mothers.

G-d hating marxist teachers...

[James C. Bennett]

Thanks for the reality injection.

At its base, it’s a freedom issue. A woman ought to be able to choose how to live her life. Whether her free choice leads to a breakdown in society is immaterial to the point that she ought to have that freedom. If society ossifies itself by restricting women from being free to choose what they want to do, they might as well adopt Sharia law.

The only remedy, in my opinion, is to be better informed. Kids, daughters, especially, need to be taught the positive points of being family-oriented. They need to be shown the very real and psychologically-damaging effects of things like hookups and premarital sex with partners in premature relationships, the oxytocin connection, the more prominent effect of it on women than on men, and things like that. If they still persist in choosing the wilder options, nothing can be done. And they will pay for it. Things went wrong on the part of the parents years before the wrong choices were made.

[shoff]

I would guess there is no possible way that women have been forced into the workplace by high taxes. The same ones that pay for single women to stay home, programs to “educate” children, all those extra burdens to make things “fair”. Before Government started charging us for controlling our lives it was unusual for a mother not to be at home with her children. Now to help the children we must abandon them to the state.

[cartan]

Yeah, right. Women have always worked. I’m afraid that something else needs to be blamed for the breakdown in families. Like maybe the fact that easy divorce and nihilistic lifestyles have been encouraged for the last couple of generations.

Yes, that too. And yes, there have always been women who work. What’s new is the permanent, brainwashing insistence that all women must work; that working is the meaning of life, the way to fulfilment and happiness; that children are only a burden, ruining a woman’s life that would otherwise flourish scanning barcodes at a Walmart cashier all day, or adding numbers in some office.

[SatinDoll]

Ridiculous article.

Back in 1970 it was my parents who urged me to learn a marketable skill. Why? Because many of the couples they knew had broken up and divorced, the husband marrying a much younger woman and leaving his ex-wife and children in poverty. The ex-wife had no skills other than homemaker and the children were not yet old enough to work and support themselves.

I started working part-time while in high school. After high school graduation, I worked in a factory where all the women in their fifties were divorced or widowed. It was they who urged me to go to college. “Don’t be like us!”, they would tell me, “our husbands are gone, and we struggle to make ends meet.”

Always I believed marriage was in my future, for I was raised by a mother who believed being a wife and mother was sacred. It was a cruel reality to discover that most men I met were bums, highly critical of women who believed their place was in the home, rearing children and caring for their families.

By age thirty I no longer dated and had given up on ever marrying. I made my own way in the world. Today I’m 60-years old, a life-long Conservative and Republican, and read articles like this one which ignore the centuries old truism: it’s a man’s world.

Feminism didn’t have a damn thing to do with any of this nation’s present problems.

[blueunicorn6]

We can all thank Hugh Heffner, Hollywood and Madison Avenue. People used to aspire to have a spouse, a small house and kids. Now, you’re way behind if you don’t look like a supermodel and live in a ten thousand square foot house and take vacations to France.

[Nea Wood]

Great post!

Most jobs are not “wonderful, fulfilling careers.” If they were, sayings like “Thank God it’s Friday!” wouldn’t be so common.

I’ve heard young single women say that they’d like to be full-time wives and mothers, but they’re afraid to say that to the men they date. Once men prided themselves on being able to support a wife, insisting, “No wife of mine will have to work!” Now they think stay-at-home wives are leeches. They feel entitled to the money their wives or live-in girlfriends bring in from their jobs. So it’s not just those evil feminazis insisting on working. There’s a lot of factors going on.