Do Conservatives See Women As Inferior? (Kelly Hollowell On Sexual Equality Alert)

We no longer live in an era where women worked in the home and men where the breadwinners

Hello yourself! I work for pecuniary compensation, my wife takes care of the household and the kids. We each are more valuable to our family in those particular roles, and embrace that model by choice.

Why should we let our children be raised by some state-aproved day care baby mill when my wife can do a better job? Employment for her would only mean she gets run ragged for a marginal financial gain, while our children get farmed out.

Sounds like a socialist wet dream to me.

Not all want to live the way we do, they have the option not to. What's the big deal?

My wife wants to know why women should want to be sexually equal? Why give up their clear advantages?

You aren't inferior to men, but to God -- as are all men and women.

We men and women need each other, in order to accurately reflect the glory of God's creation.

Some Christians like to point to Genesis and say that Eve committed the orginal sin, but really it was Adam. He (read Genesis closely) was there when Eve was tempted, and Adam did not exercise spiritual headship in the presence of the Serpent. God told Adam what not to do, He didn't tell Eve. Yet Eve knew (as the Serpent proved), she learned (implied) from Adam. Yet Adam failed to confront the Serpent.

Thus the blameshifting began, and 'we're' still wrongly argueing between the sexes ever since.

You aren't inferior -- we both are.

...over their antiquated view that the little woman belongs at home taking their direction.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. It is not a question of "taking direction", but one of utilizing individual talents to the best and greatest good of our household and family. I do not tell my wife what to buy at the grocery store, I do not have time to micromanage our home while I am out in the boonies doing wellsite geology on an oil rig. We discuss the major things, she takes care of the petty and mundane, commonly without any input from me. I TRUST her judgement, or I would never have married her.

We have different skills, which compliment one another. It is not a question of Og telling Ogette to put another log on the fire.

I pity the people who are miserable because they are doing what good little 21st century wifeys and hubbies are supposed to to be 'progressive' instead of living a life which might be more to their liking and fulfillment. I also pity those women who feel threatened by a mom who can fix 'boo-boos' without taking the kid to an ER, can do carpentry and paint the living room by her self, without feeling the irrational need to subjugate her femininity to be more of a 'man' than a m'am.

It is a not a question of who does what so much as one of what is best for our family.

My workweek only runs 14/7, my wife's runs 10 hours per day longer, and for that she has my unfailing respect.

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