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I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry
Thought Catalog blog ^ | January 15, 2014 | Amy Glass

Posted on 01/27/2014 4:28:25 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Every time I hear someone say that feminism is about validating every choice a woman makes I have to fight back vomit.

Do people really think that a stay at home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and takes care of herself? There’s no way those two things are the same. It’s hard for me to believe it’s not just verbally placating these people so they don’t get in trouble with the mommy bloggers.

Having kids and getting married are considered life milestones. We have baby showers and wedding parties as if it’s a huge accomplishment and cause for celebration to be able to get knocked up or find someone to walk down the aisle with. These aren’t accomplishments, they are actually super easy tasks, literally anyone can do them. They are the most common thing, ever, in the history of the world. They are, by definition, average. And here’s the thing, why on earth are we settling for average?

If women can do anything, why are we still content with applauding them for doing nothing?

I want to have a shower for a woman when she backpacks on her own through Asia, gets a promotion, or lands a dream job not when she stays inside the box and does the house and kids thing which is the path of least resistance. The dominate cultural voice will tell you these are things you can do with a husband and kids, but as I’ve written before, that’s a lie. It’s just not reality.

You will never have the time, energy, freedom or mobility to be exceptional if you have a husband and kids.

I hear women talk about how “hard” it is to raise kids and manage a household all the time. I never hear men talk about this. It’s because women secretly like to talk about how hard managing a household is so they don’t have to explain their lack of real accomplishments. Men don’t care to “manage a household.” They aren’t conditioned to think stupid things like that are “important.”

Women will be equal with men when we stop demanding that it be considered equally important to do housework and real work. They are not equal. Doing laundry will never be as important as being a doctor or an engineer or building a business. This word play is holding us back.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: blogwhore; feminism; marriage; motherhood; success; twisted; ugly
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the libtard premises that married women who have kids and run a house, “do nothing” because it’s not corporate work. anyone - manor woman - who is home running the house, and with kids/pets - knows it’s real work that needs to be done, and they aren’t getting paid for it. there is real value in a well-run house and kids who have one of their parents around at home.

funny but not too long ago feminists made the case men were sexist for holding the exact same views.


161 posted on 01/27/2014 12:01:09 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet another see you next Tuesday happy gal


162 posted on 01/27/2014 2:16:50 PM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do many Jewish women drink feminism and dig abortion so

Ruth?

Esther?

I doubt it

Jewish women should be breeding like rabbits...make more little tribers

Or get swallowed by we goyim....

I’m a traditional Christian....and breeding.


163 posted on 01/27/2014 2:19:10 PM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These aren’t accomplishments, they are actually super easy tasks, literally anyone can do them.

You must have done it to speak of it with such authority. Oh wait, you haven't? But it is so easy....

Honestly she is partly right, most people can walk down an aisle, staying married to that person for life? That is the tough part.

And for a number of women getting "knocked up" is not that easy but even if it was taking a small bundle that eats, poops and pees and raising it to be a civilized human? Once again, that is the tough part.

164 posted on 01/27/2014 2:32:21 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have incredible admiration for women who are good mothers.

There are some women who should never, under any circumstances be allowed to birth children.

Ms. Glass is one of those women.


165 posted on 01/27/2014 3:08:55 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My girlfriend works outside of the home and would disagree 100% with this Amy character.


166 posted on 01/27/2014 3:15:39 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amy lives in a big city hi-rise, completely plugged into the Matrix, incapable of functioning in the reality of life that exists outside the cocoon of her existence.

There must be some severe cognitive dissonance running amok within her brain to be so vitreous in her opinions of how normal women choose to live their lives.


167 posted on 01/27/2014 3:16:02 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some titles of other articles she wrote at her blog:

Here’s How To Cheat Proof Your Relationship: Stay Attractive

Hillary Clinton Has Given Just As Much To This World As The Stay At Home Wife In My 11am Yogalates Class

Is The Point Of Having Kids Just To Not Be Lonely?

Successful Women Do Not Fall In Love


168 posted on 01/27/2014 3:23:16 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: wardaddy
From Amy's perspective:


BREEDER!

169 posted on 01/27/2014 3:26:29 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder if li'l Amy realizes that to take her advise 100% would mean that within 1 or 2 generations it would be the end of humanity?

The dominate cultural voice ...

I( also wonder if she isn't smart enough to know that the word is "dominant?"

170 posted on 01/27/2014 3:57:06 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

I married a Texan an am very happy.


171 posted on 01/27/2014 3:58:24 PM PST by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: Tax-chick

Very good shot!

;<)


172 posted on 01/27/2014 4:07:15 PM PST by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amy Glass is an insane female.


173 posted on 01/27/2014 4:19:05 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

174 posted on 01/27/2014 4:42:36 PM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Do people really think that a stay at home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and takes care of herself?"

Do people really think that a stay at home mom who takes care of herself, her husband, and her children is really on equal footing with a woman who works and takes care of only herself?

175 posted on 01/27/2014 5:14:00 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They are, by definition, average. And here’s the thing, why on earth are we settling for average?

She's confused 'average' with 'normal'.

There's no reason to celebrate 'abnormal'

176 posted on 01/27/2014 5:34:00 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Proportionally, Ft. Hood is to Ft. Worth as Washington Navy Yard is to Arlington, VA.)
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To: MestaMachine
LOL!

"Sarah Palin" indeed.

I could almost see the distant afterglow of Amy's cranial detonation from here in Oz!

177 posted on 01/27/2014 5:40:22 PM PST by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: Scotswife; Tax-chick; xsmommy
Hubby will retire in 5 - and will probably move onto a less stressful job. In six years his junior - and MAN! These kids are expensive!!!

My other problem is ... Figuring out how much more income to bring in without kicking us up to the next tax bracket.

Not that there are a lot of employers out there looking for a middle aged mom with a dusty finance degree and a gaping hole in her employment history.

Self-employed.

Retirement planning, tax planning, IRA-401K-health care insurance-final care insurance PLANNING and consulting! Even something as simple as "list all of your policies and what number they have and what they are worth". Include also "post-partum consulting" for the widow/widower and children when the advance planning didn't happen.

178 posted on 01/27/2014 5:55:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Eaker

Thank you!


179 posted on 01/27/2014 5:57:05 PM PST by Tax-chick (You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake.)
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To: ZinGirl
Women like that are ignorant beyond fixing...I had 5 kids in 7 years and went back to college and became a nurse when they were off to school...hubby and I discussed the plan and he knew he would be doing some of the work at home while I studied. I have been a full time mother and a full time nurse...being a full time nurse was a much easier job than being a full time mother...mom doesn't have the privilege of leaving work and going home, put their feet up on the table and whine about their lot in life. She collects no paycheck and is at work 24/7. These snotty women that look down their nose on mothers are a royal pain in the arse. Thats why I call them ignorant. No knowledge of the other type of women.
180 posted on 01/27/2014 9:42:07 PM PST by goat granny
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