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Feminist Theories Offer Cold Comfort at 40
American Spectator ^
| May 3, 2013
| Marta H. Mossburg
Posted on 05/04/2013 9:55:07 PM PDT by grundle
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posted on
05/04/2013 9:55:07 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
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posted on
05/04/2013 10:10:47 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: grundle
When it’s all said and done and you’re looking back in old age (when many doors have closed that can never be reopened), which do you think you’ll miss more, a family of children and grandchildren you never had or a career you gave up to create and raise that family?
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posted on
05/04/2013 10:18:57 PM PDT
by
CitizenUSA
(Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
To: grundle
Sorry, Susan, it’s very difficult and onerous to express a normal opinion in this extremely abnormal - not to say sick - world.
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posted on
05/04/2013 10:32:10 PM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: grundle
I was fed the feminist line. I never really wanted to learn to cook, take care of a house, I wanted children but somehow in my late teens fantasy life this would all be taken care of by my vast fortune working as a Professional “whatever”. After college, fortunately, biology kicked in and by 27 I was married with our first daughter on the way. I've always been conservative politically and I'm glad biology kicked in, and I was fortunate enough to be able to stay home with the kids. My dad was ecstatic because I put the same effort I put into school and work into learning how to cook and do “mom” things and he benefited from my year of making a different dish every night for a year (parents lived by, just as easy to cook
for 6 as for 4), I wanted to learn household maintenance, landscaping, you name it. As he got older he was glad I'd practice at their house to! Now in my early 40’s, I'm so glad I didn't wait and that my kids knew their grandparents, if only for a little while.
To: grundle
The American Left told these women that there are no consequences to decisions.
I don’t feel sorry for these withering feminists.
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posted on
05/04/2013 10:37:33 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
To: Tzimisce
Just wait until they reach their 60’s and nobody wants them.
To: grundle
I have a friend in her 40’s that doesn't talk about it but I know is truly devastated by lack of her own family. We invite her to our get togethers and Christmas dinner, but she knows it's not the same. She will pass away with a small fortune in the bank, even if she lives to be 100. But it won't have been worth it. She was shocked when I said I was going to stay at home with my two little ones. Now, to be perfectly honest, she's jealous. Just reporting my story, not judging anyone elses.
To: grundle
The article suggests that every woman who rejects family for a fantastic career, always ends up with the fantastic career. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most end up simply lonely, with no wealth to speak of, no kids and no future. They rode the feminist wave, some being insufferable bitches at work the whole time, which killed thier chances for leadership roles (because they didn’t have any leadership skills to begin with), only to become increasingly bitter and old.
I beleive the word is Spinster.
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posted on
05/04/2013 10:59:37 PM PDT
by
Greenpees
(Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
To: Tzimisce
I disagree. I do feel sorry for them and for this country for the loss we all experience for those Americans who should have been born. Of course I am quite sure that many of them would spurn my sympathy in public, although embrace it in private.
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:04:21 PM PDT
by
antceecee
(Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
To: grundle
To: grundle
They probably would have laughed at Patton in their 20s, as I would have, but today they often feel alone more than successful and stand at a biological crossroads shattering their sense of self. They made their beds. Now they come home to the sounds of silence and sleep next to their careers. Finally they will die alone, forgotten, and un-mourned.
Anyone truly as intelligent as these women believe themselves to be would have understood this before completing high school.
But the Feminist Kool-Aid tasted so sweet!
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:11:55 PM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: grundle
...approaching 40 or over the mark, and want to marry and have children as much or more than the lucrative careers they worked so hard to achieve.They probably would have laughed at Patton in their 20s, as I would have, but today they often feel alone more than successful and stand at a biological crossroads shattering their sense of self.
To: grundle
To: MacMattico
I think Barbara Walters said:
Of these 3 options as a woman:
Great career
Great marriage
Great kids
That you can possibly have 2, but having all 3 is nearly impossible.
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:18:57 PM PDT
by
boop
("You don't look so bad, here's another")
To: DIRTYSECRET
No one wants them now.
Do you want a loud obnoxious woman with a victim complex and a chip on her shoulder who is far past her prime and might have a kid with a head full of bad wiring to boot?
That’s really not attractive to most men and that’s what these feminists are pissy about.
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:34:42 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
To: grundle
Bookmark for later commentary.
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:35:40 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
To: antceecee
They brought it on themselves.
If we could go back to the 70s these women would be loud, rude, obnoxious know-it-alls - just like they are today.
And you can’t tell them anything - just like today.
I don’t feel sorry for people who make a bunch of bad decisions then salve themselves by taking it out on everyone around them.
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:37:49 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
To: antceecee
Sadly, I have a good friend who is 60 and never married. She readily admits she swallowed the feminist crud in her college years, to her detriment. Her first boyfriend had his own jet, and several years later (when he no longer wanted her as “eye candy”), they split.
Once you've dated someone so well-heeled, it apparently is hard to accept that other guys won't be able to at least match that to which you became acquainted (although her family lived very modestly). No guy she ever dated “did it” for her after that first guy, and she grew to distrust him during their relationship (he was ten years older than he'd initially said he was).
She is alone and has recently had problems finding the kind of job she once had, after being let go.
When I met her ten years ago, she had six cats. My wife and I believe this was part of her misplaced maternal instinct, letting animals serve as a proxy for family.
It is sad.
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posted on
05/04/2013 11:57:15 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: Tzimisce
“Do you want a loud obnoxious woman with a victim complex and a chip on her shoulder who is far past her prime and might have a kid with a head full of bad wiring to boot?”
Speaking from the guy's perspective, this was exactly the kind of female I seemed to attract like a magnet. I managed to avoid them because too many of my friends married harpies like this and were miserable. It was worse if there were kids and a divorce ensued; the husbands would get financially screwed and have to fight the ex for visitation rights. Marrying one of these prizes was a demon from Hell.
My lady was previously married and widowed when we met. I love her to tears, but she's long past kids and we're growing old together. Do I miss grand kids? Sometimes, but I saw enough carnage acted out in other lives to cure me of that.
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