Posted on 06/26/2012 4:47:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
I am glad she discovered the truth. It’s the feminists who have been making women into second class citizens.
If we fall, they will be to blame.
Men didn’t have it all either. The stress of working 60-80 hours a week to provide for their families is one reason why there are more old women than old men.
Too bad all the women who are working don’t have a choice. Many mothers want to be at home with their children, but their husbands can’t find a job after being laid off, and mothers are the bread winners, like it or not.
We need to have adults in the Oval Office who can do a much better job of running the government so that this nation is again family-friendly. For that, we have to fire the brain-washed Leftists who are currently ruining our society as they force their statist dreams on the rest of us.
Gosh, men and women are different?
I never would have imagined that. I’m awfully glad that a smart liberal was able to figure it out (sort of) for me.
I have a 25 year old daughter with an MBA and a job she likes very much. All of her girlfriends graduated from college. Most are now married and several have a child. From what I see, marriage and children are much more important to them than a “career”. They have good jobs but love their families more than their jobs. My daughter will be getting married next spring and wants kids right away.
I always worked when my kids were young and I would have much rather stayed home with them. It is not healthy for our children to be raised by strangers. Feminists have sold my generation a bill of goods. I think this generation will be more likely to appreciate motherhood and reject the lies of “having it all”. JMO.
They started working in union factories and were bringing in two living wage incomes.
Inflation ran wild and the economy adjusted to where there had to be two bread winners.
The unions demanded more and more until the factories closed or moved overseas.
Now they are stuck with a two worker economy and few good paying jobs.
Well said.
I also suspect that the “to get a good job, get a good education” advertising campaign, coupled with cheap money for tuition also affected the numbers of people who entered the jobs markets able to do something productive
One of our big problems as a society is that we tend to reject what are biologically evolved social systems, because we do not understand them, and think they are frivolous. And these can be pretty harsh. Here are some:
1) Not everyone is designed to reproduce. For whatever reasons, only a percentage of people are supposed to breed, and are equipped to be good parents. And biology has come up with a lot of ways for non-breeders to not interfere with breeders. This includes homosexuality, prostitution and post-menopausal sexuality. However, our society is so oriented to breeding that it has no “social place” for non-breeders.
2) Marriage has a *biological* purpose. Marriage is a far better system than just typical mammalian reproduction, as it benefits the husband, the wife, and especially, their children, giving up sexual liberty in exchange for monogamy. But marriage only works when it is culturally *enforced*, to prevent outsiders from interfering with it.
3) The underlying biological purpose of marriage can be undermined through the use of the dowry and arranged marriages. This led many to assume that marriage was frivolous, so should be dispensed with, or at least not socially enforced. They were joined in this by non-breeders who wanted to sexually function at a more animalistic level, not responsibly reproduce, just have sex.
4) The advantages to children raised by a male-female married couple are enormous, as they are raised with an mode of success and improvement. Children raised by a single parent are raised in a “default” mode of survival, which is why they are 60% more likely to criminally offend. They lack adequate family support, so their lives are dominated by needs, not wants.
5) If somehow we can scientifically determine which people are oriented to breeding, and which are not, society can set up cultural means to protect breeding couples, and encourage non-breeders to develop a career path. This does not mean coercion, but recognition that breeding couples need societal support and protection for their marriages.
Secular feminists and environmentalists have caused more damage to America than any and all external forces combined.
They are two faces of the same coin.
The whole direction of the funding puddle in womyn's studies is toward population reduction, and failing that raising a generation of compliant wards of the almighty state. They are the pawns of disaffected elitists wanting 'less for you' and thereby, 'more for me.'
God made women to instinctually want to nurture their children until they are ready to survive on their own. He used the same technique on most species, but the duration of dependency varies greatly. Unlike the barn swallows I’ve been watching, who are soaring after a few short weeks, the human infant takes many years to be able to survive on its own. It is God’s plan that their mother’s be there to teach them and I have never seen an instance where it is a good idea to buck God’s plan. The feminist movement is but another example of the left trying to undermine God’s plan and the results, as usual, are very detrimental to our society.
Bingo. Making a huge, society-wide change like that has market consequences, which even the non-feminists routinely like to ignore or deny.
No, they caused lots of damage, but Marxism has caused much more, especially when you consider that both of those movements were simply pawns used by the Communists to undermine our society.
NO ONE can have it “all.” It just isn’t possible. Something has to give.
I have noticed a disgusting phenomenon which is the dads trying to get the kids away from the moms and thinking it is a good idea to have the moms pay child support. These men are not doing it for the kids but to hurt the women.
Ah, you're one of those! Five-year plan? I smell the ghost Lewis out of That Hideous Strength? with that swelling brain in a vat seeping out while under examination. If ever the soul pops up after amputation, give it another regulated dosage.
. . . to hear your daughter or son practice Grieg's piano concerto!
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