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.
No, there’s a few decent men who are stupid enough to think that they can be happy with a woman like this.
Yes but pointing out that connection would be “victim blaming”, apparently.
this article embodies the entire foundation of PDS... Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Sarah is educated, accomplished, and loved by her family. She has been a business owner, mayor, governor, motivational speaker, vp candidate and king maker... all while raising wonderful kids and keeping her marriage together.
for this, the feminists resent her with their entire being. her mere image reminds them of their own failings and shortcomings.
women, and men, on the left should be pitied, despised, and shunned like the plague. the older they get, the darker their soul as the jealousy, envy, and greed seeps into the marrow of their being.
But, I will say that the author is not alone in her opinion. The abuse that Mrs WBill received for being a stay-at-home mom was as relentless as it was long-winded and boring (like this article). What surprised me was where she received it from - her boss and co-workers (she has a part-time job), her friends, and even her own mother. Her mom was the one who amazed me....
I blame guilt and jealousy. Easier for those around her to drag my wife down to their level, than for them to raise themselves up to my wife's high standards.
Fortunately, Mrs WBill knows her own mind ('tis why I married her) and told them all to go fish. And, largely, she now has new friends. Though, not a new mother.
Once upon a time I almost attended William & Mary - Williamsburg is such a beautiful place!
Well whatever I do will have to accommodate sick kids - snow days. I spent 3 days on one kid with a broken arm last week.
All the while I’m adding up the days I would have to “call in” if I had an employer I was obligated to.
One the backpacking trip is over ... Then what?
Or are all supposed to keep on backpacking?
I have some inlaws that assert that I’ve “brainwashed” my wife into thinking the way she does. Her response is “sure, YOU just try to make me think some way I don’t want to and see how far that’ll get you!”
It’s pretty easy to understand them, though, even though they don’t understand themselves.
They start from [wrong] assumption A, and it logically concludes in belief B, and anyone that doesn’t conclude B must be deficient or evil.
Of course, they never examine whether ass-umption A is correct, after all, it’s an assumption.
I would have thought this was satire if I just read through it quickly.
What a sad woman she is.
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Yeah, I had that same thought. A lifetime commitment, vs calling a travel agent and spending a few bucks. LOL.
Actually, the correct answer would be "C: Have kids, then when they're old enough, give the entire family the experience of a lifetime by taking them hiking in Asia." :-)
That’s a point. None of the people I’ve mentioned has children at home.
Do you live near a university? How’s your grammar? Maybe you could be a ghostwriter!
Yes, tending kids can be mind-numbingly dull. So is working in a cube all day. I’ve done both. Now I work from home and tend the kid at the same time - massively reduces the amount of time I have to be bored, I’ll tell you! And it leaves my evenings free to write instead of having to catch up on my house chores.
Great post, well said.
In other words - she can’t handle the fact that other women make different choices than she down, thereby denying her sense of self-validation.
Such a weak and needy personality.
Exactly. If you do a truly exceptional job at a large corporation, you move up through the ranks, then when you retire, you might get a conference room named after you.....then in a couple years, the next up-and-comer (while killing a few minutes until the next meeting) looks at the dusty plaque on the conference room wall and says, "Hmmmmm....WBill. Wonder who that guy was?" and then moves on.
That is, assuming that the company is around at all. My Dad worked for a number of places throughout his career - some of them *very* large - and he's fond of mentioning that, with one exception, they're all gone. Gone out of business, or bought out and dissolved. 40-odd years of hard work, just disappeared.
Truly, it put my priorities in order. I'm planning on my grandkids telling THEIR grandkids...."Let me tell you about eating Grandpa WBill's pancakes while we make some from his recipe. They're GREAT! Here, the batter needs to look like this...Chocolate chips this time? OK, just not too many....."
And so on. Important stuff. Not work.
“40-odd years of hard work, just disappeared. “
I have a different take on that. The 40 years of hard work supported a family. That’s pretty significant.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaha!!! I've not heard that one before, likely because my M-i-L knows that I'd laugh her out of the room...
Brainwash my wife. HA! You should just TRY to get her to do something that she doesn't want to do. I'm stubborn and bullheaded, and she makes ME look downright passive and compliant. LOL!!
I think that our wives would see eye-to-eye on things. :-)
Oh, absolutely - work to live, not live to work.
But what Dad accomplished - while having real value at home, has no more value in the workplace. It's just a matter of priority, that's all.
Yup.
Spiritually numb.
Emotionally devoid.
And morally bankrupt.
What lesbians do in the shower is their own business
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