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The “Mommy Wars” Are Over
Townhall.com ^ | December 30, 2013 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 12/30/2013 5:09:11 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: jsanders2001

FedGov needed more feed and too many mothers were at home un-measurably improving our economy by being moms. Pushing them out of the home allowed them to be taxed with the costs placed on all taxpayers once their kids grew up.

GDP is a terrible measure of national wealth.


61 posted on 12/30/2013 1:48:59 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Carry_Okie

How is your daughter at Utah U. making money while going to school?


62 posted on 12/30/2013 1:51:51 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
How is your daughter at Utah U. making money while going to school?

She received a full academic scholarship for her 3.95 junior college GPA and record of tutoring calculus at the age of 15. She had also set (IIRC) five "all time top ten" marks in track and field for the JC team. She made the Utah State track team, but too late for scholarship money. So she applied for and won a private scholarship that covered her room and board. Then she took on being a teaching fellow, grading papers and tests for a class of 90 students, for which she has earned a small salary, all while taking a 21 semester credit load. She is 4.0 since transferring to USU.

63 posted on 12/30/2013 2:00:41 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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To: papertyger
Why would anybody follow selfishness (aka girlie men)?

If men would rise up and be leaders, there would be something to follow.

64 posted on 12/30/2013 2:02:07 PM PST by what's up
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To: 1010RD; PowerBaby

Any and all of your kudos should be directed to FReeper PowerBaby. She earned them.


65 posted on 12/30/2013 2:03:42 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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To: Kaslin

Its both

Culture and money

Where I live.....white and median income 90k

Most women are moms....or part time

But when I was young....even poor forks...mom raised her kids


66 posted on 12/30/2013 2:09:17 PM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: FourtySeven

You are right and thank you for the thorough response. I must have meant fleshly, and didn’t have enough coffee, sorry.

Yes, the yearning for God has been supplanted with these easy fixes—money, sex.

Women as tools for scratching the itch, that is about right.
Man’s role as protector of the family has been abdicated.

Christ is the answer, but in today’s world those are fighting words.


67 posted on 12/30/2013 2:10:05 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Kaslin

It takes a village.


68 posted on 12/30/2013 2:13:21 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: what's up

You seem to be under the
mistaken impression that repeating a fallacy long enough will make it valid.

You can come up with excuses “why” till the cows come home, but until you can answer how men lead women who refuse to follow you’re just regurgitating a religious doctrine which is as inapplicable to civil governance as Jewish dietary laws.


69 posted on 12/30/2013 2:14:38 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: yldstrk
Christ is the answer, but in today’s world those are fighting words.

No they're not, but suggesting a woman obey her husband sure is....

70 posted on 12/30/2013 2:18:45 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: wintertime

They are addicted to porn and other sexual perversions.

...the intelligence of your post is absolutely astounding...your broomstick is warmed up and ready to go...hop on...


71 posted on 12/30/2013 2:22:28 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: papertyger

I think women wouldn’t have an issue with that if they believed their husbands had their best interests at heart. Women want someone to rely on and who will protect them and not be an ass.

But the husbands that bandy this about are usually abusers


72 posted on 12/30/2013 2:22:44 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Tax-chick
It's not clear to me what the author's intention is in all of this.

To whine, near as I can tell.

73 posted on 12/30/2013 2:30:28 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

There are so many columnists under contract (I suppose) to provide content at specified intervals. This results in a lot of writing that is, at best, not as good as it should have been.


74 posted on 12/30/2013 2:42:19 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Try not to get too far ahead in the story. Spoilers abound." ~ Nicknamedbob)
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To: yldstrk
I think women wouldn’t have an issue with that if they believed their husbands had their best interests at heart.

That's easy to claim when she's the one defining what her "best interests" are....

The Bible tells us the curse God laid on women at The Fall was a desire to control her husband with a corresponding inability to make it "work."

What we have today is what the results of that curse look like.

75 posted on 12/30/2013 2:43:37 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: papertyger
but until you can answer how men lead women who refuse to follow

Already answered though you choose to ignore it.

Either that or you assume that women are going to follow effeminate men. Why would someone follow selfishness? Isn't going to happen.

And bringing up the feminizing of men and the booming gay lobby is not a non sequitur BTW. It is directly related to the lack of strong, true leadership among males.

76 posted on 12/30/2013 2:48:47 PM PST by what's up
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To: yldstrk
But the husbands that bandy this about are usually abusers

And women who make duplicitous accusations to buttress their assertions are usually...women.

77 posted on 12/30/2013 2:53:39 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: what's up
Already answered though you choose to ignore it.

No, you attempted to claim "why" women don't follow; an unprovable assertion at best.

You've yet to even touch "how."

78 posted on 12/30/2013 2:59:44 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: papertyger
an unprovable assertion at best.

You need proof that people won't follow wimps? To most people this is quite as obvious as the color of the sky.

79 posted on 12/30/2013 3:05:07 PM PST by what's up
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To: what's up
You need proof that people won't follow wimps? To most people this is quite as obvious as the color of the sky.

You keep studiously avoiding my "how" and injecting your "why." Even so, if one is a Christian, submission to male leadership is not an option, so I have no need to "prove" anything about the quality of male leadership.

Nevertheless, I can assert without any credible dispute that American women HAVE rebelled against male leadership qua male.

80 posted on 12/30/2013 3:25:16 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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