Posted on 10/24/2009 9:29:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
i like staying home, also , but people give you sh*t about it sometimes.
And I do get defensive, i admit it.
If I had to grow the flax, sheer the sheep, spin the yarn, grow the herbs, stay ahead of the rats and vermin in the house, make the clothes, can the food, knit the sweaters, milk the cow, churn the butter, feed the chickens, etc. etc. etc., I would be cleaning the house and doing the wash and finding time for the kids just as I am now, and working a lot harder than I do practicing law.
Women’s lives are always busy and over committed, and that is the way it is.
Feminizm was and is about ugly women getting revenge on everybody.
YOU have the MOST important JOB in the Country. PERIOD
I don’t think popular public opinion was much in the suffragettes favor either back then. I’m sure they were the unwashed, bra burners of their day to a great many people.
Look, I’m not saying I like the dyke aspect of the women’s movement, or the radical eradicate men side either. I’m just acknowledging that ground was gained for women. I’ll not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Amen to that!
Very simple. You cannot live life ignoring reality, inventing your own or going along with one that is no reality at all, AND deny every God given instinct as they come along, and expect to be happy or fulfilled.
You'd be depressed or unhappy, too, if choosing what you wanted to do (staying home with your kids and making a home) was treated with derision and scorn by society, including women who go around mouthing off about "choice".
At least in the first instance (going against what society expects), you could do what you wanted, even if it was difficult. Versus so many women and families stuck in the economic trap of the woman having to work to keep the (often broken) family afloat.
Proof of this is that the Women's Movement, which wants to socialize anything and everything, has not lifted a single finger to help stay-at-home-mothers find investment opportunities or to save toward retirement. There are no 401Ks for stay-at-home moms, for example.
It's never about women who choose to stay home; never about women's health issues unrelated to abortion (finding ways to insure SAHM, for example); never about women's economic issues unrelated to working outside the home; never about women's education or edification unless it is tied to working outside the home.
The Women's Movement may have started out as a way to empower women to be able to achieve in any sphere, but quickly became a way to boost women who work on the backs of those who choose to stay home.
So many women in their 20's see this and refuse to call themselves "feminists", because it conjures up such nasty images. This should cause those at the forefront of feminism to pause and reconsider, but it doesn't. They simply blame those women who refuse to get on board and call them "brainwashed", then go about their business as usual.
Public opinion was very much against the suffragettes, largely because of the violent nature of their protests.
They get all the publicity because of that, but it was the suffragists, not the suffragettes, who actually got the vote for women.
No, they really didn’t. If you didn’t marry you were the ‘old maid’ and what could you do?
Tomatoe, tomahto. I’m appalled that anyone had to ‘grant’ me the right to vote. Period. But not before black men, who weren’t even considered human then.
Women God’s beautiful gift to man but how does it work?
“It was about replacing “having” to work at home to “having” to work outside the home”
Yes and look what has happened. The economy is now DEPENDANT on the 2 income household.
Women that WANT to stay home and Raise a healthy family CAN’T without MAJOR Sacrifices.
WOW talk about a bait and switch...and women fell for it.
Oh I don’t know. Get an education. Start a business. You know.......use your God given talents to make a meaningful and fullfilled life.
(generic you)
All libs are angry and filled w/hate.
Pray for America
But then we’d be the unhappy woman who just needs a man in her life. You see? No win either way.
I just really want to know where this article’s author gets his numbers. ‘A lot of women’. What does that mean? Where are the specifics?
A lot of men seem to be profoundly unhappy.
They don't seem to be finding satisfaction in subverting their maleness to pushy, nasty women.
I occasionally listen to Dr. Laura. I find her to be a bit shrill, but one thing I will say is this - so many women and men call in to thank her for her books (The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands; The Proper Care and Feeding of Wives; The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage). Having read them, they are largely about restoring respect and reverence to traditional gender roles within marriage.
There seems to be a huge "need" in men and women for men to regain and retake their traditional places as head of household and as head of the family.
Come on, don’t buy into the ‘all women are victims’ line here. No-win situation.
How ‘bout being a conservative white guy in today’s world. We’re the problem for everything. Nobody out there has our backs. Nobody bends over backwards not to fire us. They don’t care if they say offensive things to us, we just better take it and not say anything back. God forbid we fight with our spouse, we get a domestic violence charge slapped at us and get put through the ringer by female divorce attorneys sponsored by any number of womens’ groups. Made indentured sevants to the govt via child support services that only serve to make things worse between the ex’s. Women still have choies to stay at home or work, even without kids. Nobody rips them for that, men have never had that option without negative connotations. The whole unequal pay issue, after factoring the levels of jobs, time off for maternity, etc, changes the gap to only a couple cents difference.
When do we get our support group? When do we get our march? When do we get a bunch of non-profits out there representing our interests? We’re less than equal, having less acceptable choices available, but always portrayed as more than equal.
And can we just finally stop this whole stupid trend of tiny women somehow kicking the crap out of huge guys in the movies and tv? It’s just ridiculous.
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