It is too late for me WPhile LOL.
Posted on 04/22/2002 4:40:48 AM PDT by kattracks
Talk about dumb broads
Posted: April 22, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
If women are so smart, why are they so dumb?
And before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm entitled to criticize females because the last time I checked, I'm one of them. Katie bar the door, I'm about to be incredibly politically incorrect.
Women have been sold a bill of goods, which they bought hook, line and sinker. Ever since the '60s, when the brunt of feminism hit the media, the message was clear: Go for it! You can have (be, do, experience) everything!
There's only one problem. It isn't true. Never was. Never will be.
But men knew that. Lost in the burst for female "freedom" was the ugly truth that men, who supposedly had "everything" that women were being denied, were really victims of a system that kept them prisoner.
It was the price they paid for being men. Their role in life was to be the breadwinner, the master of the home, the head and protector of the family, the person ultimately responsible for the survival of his tribe and the soldier-protector of his country.
He had to be brave, smart, hard working and supportive of the family. He had to be husband, father, son, sibling, uncle, neighbor, friend. He had to work to earn the means to play all those roles, and he had no choice.
This isn't to say there weren't scoundrels. Of course there were – men who deserted their women and children, who drank or gambled the family earnings, or womanized their way through marriages which hung together for "the sake of the children."
Guys like that aren't new and are still around. In fact, women's liberation has been great for men who prefer to chill out, and societal changes make it easy.
Want sex? Take your pick. Chicks are there for the asking; in fact, they'll compete to be the "chosen one" for the day. Or night. No questions. No promises. How great is that?
Don't want kids? No worry. There's all kinds of prevention (sounds like a plague, doesn't it?) with most of the responsibility on her. And if they don't "work" and a new life gets in the way, just get rid of it. It's legal, private and accepted. And if she's really a "today woman," she might not even tell you and just "take care of things" on her own. What a gal! What a life!
Don't want marriage? Duh. Just live together. Get the bennies and avoid the legal technicalities. Get tired of that? Leave. Hey, the door is always open.
Women's liberation freed men from responsibility. It encouraged women to "find" themselves. They were urged to "go for it" careerwise.
Of course they could do it. Women are smart and able to work hard and succeed. But by doing it, they walked right into the trap that men had been in all along.
Now they find themselves in careers that are time-consuming, require travel away from home and envelop their lives. In that sense, women turned into what they originally disliked about their men and in the process, made the ugly discovery that a major tradeoff was the signature of their femininity. They gave up or lost the opportunity to be a wife and a mother. Why weren't they smart enough to see that?
A new book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, "Creating A Life," comes to the conclusion, after surveying nearly 1,200 high-achieving career women, that they missed life. One was quoted as saying "I forgot to have a child."
Forgot? Give me a break! Any woman who "forgets" so basic a part of the female psyche isn't smart enough to be considered a high achiever. Either that or today's standards aren't what they're cracked up to be.
Women always had to choose. The choice for career meant sacrificing the family role. And that is the key. Sacrifice. Women are supposed to have been liberated from sacrifice. They are supposed to be able to have and do it all. Except for the fact that it doesn't work.
The real tragedy of Hewlett's findings is the real, human loss to those women. By the time they realize the loss, they're too old biologically to have a child, and too old socially to find an appropriate man to marry. If she's been divorced or earns too much money, it's even harder.
As for the men, as the old saying goes, why buy the cow when the milk is free?
It makes you wonder who women's liberation really liberated?
Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker" as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, television and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Good Lord, is it THAT bad?
I guess I should be grateful for my generation and all those 'sensitive' male types we insisted upon. LOL!
I think we can also say that liberal men aren't very logical either. Actually the entire philosophy is just a seething mass of contradictions starting with being simultaneously pro-abortion but anti-death penalty.
My niece was 21 when she got pregnant (old enough to know better, I might add) It is her daughter who is 14. And neither of them are crackwhores! They are both very good photographers, as a matter of fact!
Have a nice evening. How's that for sappy?? ;o)
I'll tell you.
We (the older generation) made him and his cohort that way. We did everything we could to set the stage for the era in which we now live, by becoming the "Me Generation," by electing Bill Clinton, by divorcing each other at a staggering rate, by worshipping the works of our hands and the almighty dollar, by diluting the Christ-centeredness of mainstream Christianity, by building the most materialistic, consumer-driven society this world has seen since Babylon the Great, and by modeling for weikel and all his friends the very essence of "hearts waxing cold toward one another."
I cannot get angry at young people like weikel, because I realize that we in our forties, fifties and sixties have so screwed up the America that once was the shining city on the hill that it's a wonder they aren't more screwed up than they are.
It used to be that men knew it was their duty to take care of their children. Now, thanks to feminists, they're liberated from that obligation (of course they might have to pay child support, but not every young unmarried mom I know receives financial help from the dad).
Sorry, but you are a prime example of what the author of the article is talking about--men who are reaping the benefits from the feminist revolution. As you said, you're getting all the freebies. And members of our gender (that includes your girlfriend) who buy that crap are shortchanging themselves.
The sensitive ones are all Dems.
Sensitivity is lying at a screening of the Titanic with your girlfriend... "Boo hoo! Leo died!" instead of cheering.
It is too late for me WPhile LOL.
Remember that I have a son 24, daughter 22 and another daughter who's twenty (she'll be 21 later this year). I love them so very much, and hate the difficulties they're going through as a result of poor choices they've made.
We tried to teach them correct principles, but in the end they must govern themselves, and my daughters in particular have made some bad decisions in the process.
My 22 year old just broke up with the guy with whom she'd been "shacking up" for about the last two years. She, too, was very cynical about the idea of marriage and she told herself that it was better this way.
Then she began to realize how much is missing when the commitment is not there.
I could go on, but suffice it to say that you are doing yourself the biggest favor I think you could do. You aren't missing out on anything, and you and your husband will realize the power of your decision some day, mark my words.
If you have a chance (and assuming it is playing where you live) try and catch the little, low-budget indie film The Other Side of Heaven if you can. It stars Christopher Gorham (Party of Five, Felicity) and Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries) and is about a young couple, very much in love, who decide to wait while the young man serves an LDS church mission in Tonga.
Much of the film deals with their communications back and forth, and how they had the strength (and the commitment) to be 3,000 miles apart for 30 months during which time the young man nearly loses his life to the dangers of living in that remote place.
I think you'll come away with a great appreciation of what true love and commitment really are.
In the meantime, NEVER stop being your beautiful self, kiddo.
There's a message there somewhere.
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