Posted on 11/05/2005 7:45:30 AM PST by kalee
And we sometimes wonder why so many men refuse to marry?
Who can blame them when they hear this kind of tripe? I'd be running away from the feminazi-babeo-fascists like this too!
I have to wonder where you spent your formative years.....with nannies? ...at a daycare?.... institutionalized somewhere....by someone other than your mom?
How sad your outlook on life....especially the lives of children.
I think I must have done my job well as 'stay at home mom'....
...My daughter, with an education degree, taught school for several years until she had her baby...
..now she's a happy 'stay at home mom' too....
..and her husband appreciates this very much!
Such expectations are utterly selfish and a dishonor to the struggles that the Second Wave feminists (those who came of age in the '60s and '70s) endured for my generation.
Hey dudette...no one twisted their arms to join the STRUGGLE as you put it.
They weren't required to sign their lives away for x amount of years.
The only STRUGGLE they had was what they created for themselves.
Stop your bellyachin and go do something constructive like these young mothers will be doing staying home, teaching their children manners, how to behave and all the nice things of life and THAT includes (for girls) playing with doll babies and learning how to care for them instead of MURDERING THEM. Learning how to set a table with their little plastic dishes, and yes, the cute little ironing board and iron. :) They will also learn how to wash and dry dishes, make beds etc. All the while this mother is teaching these things...she is the heart of the home and is loved by everyone as she loves them. :)
For the boys, they will be taught how to change tires, fix cars, be the "good guy", respect women (even those who don't want it) learn how to build things, take out the garbage, pick up after the dog and learn to look out for and protect women beginning with their mothers and sisters.
Can you imagine how many cakes and cookies they will have coming in from a day at school taking in all those wonderful aromas from the kitchen? Mmmmmm, good. Comfort food, secure feelings and joy.
Congratulations to all the young women who will take on this role. After all...it is really NOT a role but a natural thing for a woman to do if she has children. They are taught what they need before they go out into the world.
God bless them all. We are proud of them. Their STRUGGLE is to make sure they do everything possible for their children and that doesn't mean expensive shoes or constant toys etc. Good books, games, teach by example.
God bless them all. As for the fems...their STRUGGLE continues and that struggle is to keep their men bashing group alive. Good luck fems...you glory days are over.
My tagline applies to her for sure.
2. Its editorial board consists of "lifestyle leftist" 1970s Yalie buttoned-down revolutionaries. Skipper: "Che Guevara and Margaret Sanger Forever!!!!" Muffie: "Oh, good one, Skip!" 4. Butch? Lipstick? Hysteric? America wants to know! Then again, maybe we don't want to know.
I might have sounded like that at 20. I grew up.
I'm finishing up my PhD, and when I get married, I plan to stay home and raise
my kids. Feminazis can call me whatever they want, but when I have kids,
I want to teach them MY values. And, I can do a better job of educating
them in their early years than most public and private school teachers.
That is more of a priority than having a career.
I think the author is entirely dismissing of the contribution of woman who act as full time mothers. The description of their occupation does not come near to doing it justice.
In addition, the author is dismissive of the possibility of unpredictable situations that might suddenly force such family roles upon unsuspecting couples and families. We had a sample just recently with Katrina and Wilma here in SoFlo.
As mentioned and discussed heavily by fellow FReepers, when the power went out and neighborhood essentially became isolated habitations for a few days, such traditional roles became heavily prominent and reinforced.
True, men and women worked on the cleanup, but other roles became obvious such as women pooling together to want children, and men hunting and gathering supplies when they came upon the opportunity to garner them.
Men in our neighborhood worked to restore structural integrity of housing and perform large scale cleanup such as removing trees from driveways while women organized and allocated supplies such as food in the form of prepared meals.
It worked wonderfully and we all felt blessed.
However, if it came down to a difference in opinion in who was to carry out what chores, I suspect things would have been much harder. Still, had I been confronted, I suspect I would have happily ceded my role in tree removal and roof-reconstruction and repair.
I suspect the author may have some extreme difficulties when their time of trial arrives. For all their intentions, reality tends to tread hard on the illusions of the foolish.
"Isn't it amazing that a college junior is so undertrained in logic that she doesn't see the foolishness of her argument. She calls the ones who choose motherhood, which is to serve others, selfish.....and feminism, which is to cater to self, the right path."
I try to go back and remember what a pain in the but I was at this age.
I remember thinking how I had it all figured out (that was...BEFORE I had children!)
Real life experience will set this girl straight, and if it doesn't she'll wind up just like Maureen Dowd.
Wait until she is old and alone.
Old and ALONE.
No children around to make sure she is safe and cared for. Wait until the holidays roll around and she has no one at her table except her laptop and her cell phone.
Wait until birthdays, Christmas etc. roll around ahd she celebrates alone.
I wonder THEN what she'll think of the STRUGGLES of those fems before her.
Not being able to bear children is one thing. Most people adopt. However, not having children becuase you think yur job is more important well....all I can say is: "You are missing out."
And just think.....in a couple years or so...she will be "teaching" young minds full of mush..!!
And please don't think that you have to give up a career in order to have children. You can interrupt it, or find another interest while you are home with the kids.
God, family, country, work. (Okay, everybody has an opinion about the sequence of the first three. But, you should get the idea.)
Was there ever a label for "full time mother" or "housewife"?
What makes you imagine Julie having children? As any 20-year-old sociology major can tell you: "Diapers are so, wellllll, yucky!!!! Especially compared to being a partisan of Ugo Chavez and Che!!!!!!! And to pushing poor people around with an unearned air of social and even pseudo-intellectual superiority."
BRAVO! Well said.
Morning sunshine!
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