Posted on 11/09/2010 3:15:17 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
I think any adult telling another adult ‘what they think’ they should do w/their life shows one certainly has control issues.
You just described Minnesota! People who hardly know you will get in your face, and use the condescending “mommy tone” (it’s called “Minnesota Nice” - I’d rather go back to New Jersey!) to tell you how to run your life.
I do a lot of my work at home, using AutoCAD and PLC programming software. I just got a lecture that I got suckered into one of those “work at home” scams - stuffing envelopes, etc. Right. Today I am going to a chemical plant to go over where some new pumps and valves are to be installed so I can do the design and the PLC program. Nope, the nanny says that I’m in a “work at home” scam.
And that’s just one of the lecture topics I get from Minnestoopids. This is control fr
So dumb they need(ed) something like the Constitution in order to make decisions involving their actions. Obama, on the other hand, has gone way beyond the Constitution! He's such a genius! He's read Karl Marx...!
No, it was written by Suzanne Venker. It is her opinion and not David Horowitz’z opinion.
Good grief, such hyperbole.
Palin's complaint about a few is transformed into a blanket condemnation.
No, he didn’t. He probably wished he did. He was against Christine O’Donnell in the most childish way and he probably hates Palin too. I’m finished with him and his blog.
“except for a brief period in the 1950s when women were supposed to be the lady of the manor if they were well off (playing golf and bridge all day), or, if they weren’t well off, mom-as-live-in-help who dreamed only of new floor-cleaning products”
And don’t forget that some of the 50s moms were playing the role of Rosie the Riveter while their husbands/fathers/fiances fought WWII!
Many. Some have their mothers (figurately) ready to clobber them if they don't watch their mouths. Those will say, "Bless your heart, honey, you're so cute!"
But some women will go into a tizzy because someone is not Affirming Their Choices by agreeing that no other choices exist ... and then they'll end up like this writer: catty, judgmental, and envious.
LOL! Have a Guinness (for medicinal purposes, of course)!
David was aftrer O’Donnell in a childish way? He did work for her and she promised to pay him. She didn’t until she wanted to run again.
How is that childish? He could have done a Rovelike attack, but didn’t.
Seems to me that when you ask someone to do a job for you and make a payment agreement, you should pay them after they do the job.
How is that childish?
The author will tell everyone when "childrens'needs" are not being met and what moms priorities should be.
The arrogance of this author is beyond belief.
I have always thought that the 1950’s “ideal housewife” was basically a reaction to the 1940s, when a lot of women found themselves having to work in uncongenial environments and jobs, partly because of the war effort and partly because their husbands were away for a long time (and a GI’s pay wasn’t exactly generous!).
I remember the good old days when we could agree that children, especially young children were best served if at least one parent stayed home to care for and nurture them, and that in most cases the female of the species was best suited for that task.
I don’t think Palin was saying anything different, so I think the article is off-base. But it disturbs me a bit to see so many people assuming Palin WAS saying differently, and defending what I believe to be their misunderstanding of what she said.
The Palin family seems very in tune with parents raising their children rather than running off and leaving them to care-givers, at least until they are old enough to start caring for themselves (I suppose an argument could be made that Bristol wasn’t as ready to be left on her own as she might have been expected to be).
So rather than agree or disagree with the article, or suggest Palin herself thinks any differently, I’ll simply say that children need their biological parents. There is a special bond that isn’t fully understood but that is well-documented between genetic offspring and their parents, and it is in a loving environment with contact with biological parents that a child is most nurtured and strengthened to be a productive and positive member of society.
I understand that families are not always perfect, that sometimes women have no choice but to work even without a father available to take over the home duties; but a lot more women think they need to work for various reasons, and I think the next generation is suffering because of our focus on two-parent employment, not the least of which is the message kids get that money is more important than family.
Actually you could. You just don't want to.
It’s an Op Ed piece: All bias by definition.
Suzanne Venker, aka "No Bull Mom," is an author, blogger, and speaker. In addition to blogging for Right Pundits, Suzanne is a featured writer at David Horowitz's NewsReal.
Suzanne's writing tends toward the provocative -- as evidenced by her first book, 7 Myths of Working Mothers, which argues that young children and demanding careers are incompatible.
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