Posted on 12/24/2023 4:13:41 AM PST by cutty
Maybe we were separated at birth. You’re grandfather sounds exactly like my grandfather. My grandfathers on both sides, really.
My grandmother never worked and never learned how to drive. In fact, whenever she and my grandfather ever went anyplace, she always sat in the back seat with her rosary beads.....LOL!
“Growing up in the 60s (before taxes put all women to work),”
I believe that it wasn’t so much the taxes that put all women to work. It was the feminist movement, which gave employers permission to pay men less than before. That trickled down to the husband not being able to support a family on his salary alone.
It also gave marginal husbands the permission and opportunity to be slackers. Why work so hard if Mama is bringing in bacon, too.
Rush discussed this often. I think it’s covered in one of his books.
Just to be clear, I have no problem with her lifestyle. It’s those that choose a lifestyle...and then demand I join in their “fun”. Don’t like fossil fuels? Don’t buy plastic or eat food made with fertilizer. But, don’t expect me to follow suit. Don’t like your penis and want to cut it off? Fine, go for it. But don’t try to convince my children it’s the thing THEY should be doing.
Capitalism and increased standard of living allows for a feminist movement. Poor countries and peoples didn't have time to worry about that, they were too busy trying to survive. More wealth and income allows for people to hang out and think of movements and revolutions for like that, same for gays, trannies, and other deviants.
I didn’t know a single “feminist” mom in my neighborhood while growing up. I do know that most of those mothers had gone to work by 1975.
This should over-ride log-in requirement:
We need all that tax money to pay for the societal ills of unsupervised and/or fatherless children.
Yesterday’s War Room show was excellent and it covered a lot regarding tradition, from music to movies to art (Norman Rockwell). I’m going to watch it again today. (LS had a great segment.)
There a lot to be said for returning to a more civilized, traditional, Christian lifestyle in America.
It’ll never happen, but moving in that direction couldn’t hurt.
“..I’m old enough to remember when everyone’s mom stayed at home. Growing up in the 60s (before taxes put all women to work), moms were home and your original (almost no divorce or illegitimacy) dad brought home the bacon....”
Yep. I was raised in the 50s/60s to the same thing. My dad worked outside the home, and my mom was stayed home with us six kids. Each of us had chores to do around the house to help out. The neighbors, the ones that I can remember, were the same way. Times sure were different back then.
FWIW, today would have been my parents’ 74th wedding anniversary. They’re both long passed now. Miss them much.
Feminists care as much about women as communists care about workers.
There was elegance and beauty, but most importantly a sense of self worth, pride and FEMININITY in women back then.
What we call feminism has robbed women of every sense of that word.
Today you have a bunch of fat, tattooed, unloyal, boyish (penis envy), childless he/she’s that want to lecture you about the patriarchy and privilege after they take their first sociology course at a college.
In most western nations, women (not all, but most) are trash, unable to support a true relationship with a man, maintain a household and rear children. Public education and the arts turned them into good factory workers that see their entire value merely through some idiotic career or title bestowed on them after graduating with a worthless degree that gets them no real job. They are little boys in how they look and act.
That’s the real reason many men look for women outside western nations. It’s simply hard to find something which hasn’t been used like a public bus and is capable of being part of a marriage and family.
The only Mom in our area who went to work was a nurse who had to do it. Her husband was in prison for sexually assaulting a girl. Otherwise, all were stay-at-home.
That system also provided a group of trustworthy women neighbors who would help keep an eye on all the kids. It was a network of loving moms instead of potentially creepy daycare providers.
These are more of the type of feminists I was thinking of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjQ3SLh374
“And no TV so nothing to do at night but make love.”
and to actually sit and engage with your children and be involved in their lives.
playing a traditional board or card game as a family or even just a parent/child is worth way more then can be imagined.
my wife is a non-working mother. She doesnt even drive but we live in Israel so thats more normal here. She helps out at a preschool 2 1/2 hours a day for minimum wage, maybe 3-4 days a week. just enough to get out of the house. We certainly dont do it for the money.
She’s up to get our kids out in the morning. makes them lunch. and is home for them in the late afternoons evening.
Thank G-d, our children are normal and well-adjusted
That guy hit the jackpot!
Being normal is insane today.
Yep
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