Posted on 11/12/2007 10:32:00 AM PST by ConservativeColumns
My mother is a feminist. A die-hard, take no prisoners, true-blue feminist. Armed with a hard-won PhD., she has made her life's work the counseling of the transgendered, the gay and the sexually confused. Honest work in which she is passionately invested. The only fly in the ointment is me, her conservative daughter.
I am as passionate a conservative as my mother is a feminist. It's hard to imagine two more diametrically opposing viewpoints. I view the current state of feminism as doing more harm than good. As undermining the traditional and family values that I consider the backbone of our country. On the other hand, my mother considers conservative values as outdated, invalid and having absolutely no intrinsic value.
I understand how mom came to be such an ardent feminist. Though I thoroughly disagree with her views, I respect and admire the courage and sacrifices she made in attaining them.
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My mom is a lifelong liberal, and after 36 years has still not come to grips with the fact that I chose a conservative, religious lifestyle and had 9 kids.
She hasn’t given up trying to “convert” my kids, but they just laugh at her.
And her mom might be the opposite.
I think it’s reassuring to know that we can still win the hearts and minds of those raised by hard core liberals and educated in the “lost to the left” schools. Never give up.
You could become a college graduate and a professional, but there was a time when a woman could almost never achieve a place in the hierarchy. I knew women and other minorities who were passed over for partnership or shareholder status with law firms because of discrimination. One woman lawyer I had the pleasure of working for — Harvard Law graduate, summa cum laude, won several high profile cases and brought in a lot new business (among the criteria for partnership) was passed over for partnership because she was a woman. Only when she threatened to sue did she finally make partnership. Today, the firm is now a professional corporation and she is the CEO.
And there were some companies which would not hire married or engaged women to work for them. The theory was that the companies would spend a lot of money on these new hires, then the women would get pregnant and quit. I knew a woman who had to work — her husband had become disab led and unable to work — so she was sole support of hubby and two children. As soon as potential employers found out she was married, they would not hire her. Didn’t matter if you were in the position of my friend or if you promised to stay with the company after marriage and children — the companies would not hire.
Perfect example of the failure of liberalism, especially feminism. Not only is the author's mom unable to communicate with her own daughter despite liberals' claims to special competence at "dialog," but the liberal college that indoctrinated her with this evil idealogy is now closing its doors:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/2483/antioch-college-will-close-its-main-campus
Antioch College, a 155-year-old liberal-arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, announced today that it would “suspend operations” in July 2008 because of a budget crisis spurred by declining enrollment, a small endowment, and an overwhelming dependence on tuition revenue. In a news release, the college said that it hoped to raise enough money to reopen by 2012, and that its four satellite campuses would remain open. As part of the plan, the college’s Board of Trustees declared a state of financial exigency, which will allow the entire 160-member faculty to be laid off. —Andrew Mytelka
I’ll bet the mother thinks she aborted the wrong fetus.
People who don't smoke
People who can't hold their alcohol( I may make it alcohol free holidays)
People who can't stop making other people feel badly about their lives & brag about their oh so perfect lives
People who never help with anything
People I truly really have nothing in common with & they are just usually asked because I feel sorry for them
People who tell me what to cook
lmaooooo I think its going to be a very small Thanksgiving & Christmas here. I hope it is at least!
You mean she hasn't given up on indoctrinating them.
You don't have your kids in public school, do you...
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
You obviously have done a good job.
No Dues, just beer..........preferably German Beer...........
They are all adults now.
Yes, that was then, this is now. There was a time when Jewish, Catholic, Asian, etc. men also could not gain a place at the top. Despite being qualifed, like yesterdays women they weren't hired either. If hired, they weren't promoted.
Times change. There was never any huge Catholic or Jewish movement to do this. It was just that over a period of time Catholics and Jews became "real Americans" (smirk). The truth was that it hurt business more to keep non-Protestants out than to include them. The time had arrived for people who weren't WASPs to arrive at the top.
The same paradigm holds for women. The times became right. But not because of a bunch of noisy, anti-American feminazis. It's just that America had grown. Like it had grown for the Catholics, Asians, and Jews.
Oh, my, that describes SO many popular 'movements' so well.
The biggest problem with the feminist movement is that too many of them folded the results of their poor personal life choices into the mix and projected them onto ALL men, thereby creating a situation that totally upended the social conventions without having something steadying to take their place.
The author's mother is the perfect example. She got pregnant at 16, and felt she had to get married. That's all well and good, but then she had four more kids, all the while staying with a man who beat her. Now, I understand that she felt she didn't have any other choice, and she worked hard to get herself free, so she could provide for her kids. Unfortunately she joins up with other women who made poor choices, and/or just got themselves into major snits while attending colleges like Antioch. They all had their heads filled with chip on the shoulder claptrap, and proceed to take their anger and frustration out on everyone else by way of the 'feminist movement'!
They traveled in the wake of the Civil Right revolution. Almost none of them risked, as blacks did, life and limb for their cause. Compare the treatment of the ‘60s feminists with the treatment of the suffragettes at the turn of the century.
LOL! I'm sure their daughters look at you and wonder just what in the heck happened to THEIR mothers!
Prov 22:6 still applies - they won’t depart from their ways.
So instead of sending invitations for people to come to dinner you are going to send invitations to the people living with you to get out for the holidays? :^)
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