Posted on 10/20/2014 2:36:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’ – Sigmund Freud
Though the mystery of feminine wants has stumped poets, philosophers, and the father of psychoanalysis, today’s Democratic politicians think they’ve found the key — at least to the political desires of most women: a single-minded focus on the gynecological.
Republicans, whipsawed by the results of 2012 races that featured large gender gaps, particularly among single women, and aware that women have trended Democrat for decades, seem bewildered. A Karl Rove-commissioned study found that women voters consider the Republican Party “intolerant” and “lacking in compassion.” Consultants, gnawing nervously on polling and demographic data, implore Republican candidates to emphasize economic questions and soft-pedal the social issues. The candidates themselves, uncomfortable with the whole subject and wondering why they can’t just discuss the capital gains tax, mumble about how much they love their wives and eye the exits.
Democrats are running against monsters. They are running to protect American women from the hostile, patriarchal, domineering men of the Republican Party. (Chivalry is not dead!) In the Democrats’ ghoulish caricature, Republicans are not just wrong on the issues that women care about, but are barely above criminals. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, used rhetoric only slightly more florid than the Democratic norm when she said of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, “What Republican Tea Party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.”
Republicans who think they can avoid women’s issues, or blunt their power by talk of entrepreneurship or free markets, are rewarding the Democrats’ tactics. Silence gives consent. Moreover, they are conveying their fear that the Democrats’ interpretation of women’s wants is correct. They may even believe it more sincerely than Democrats themselves.
Democrats claim to believe that most women want what liberal Democrats want — taxpayer-funded abortion for any reason, free contraceptives, and so forth. “Issues like access to birth control and abortion will get voters to the polls this November,” predicted Dawn Laguens of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. But Democratic campaign commercials reveal something else: They dare not present Republican positions accurately. The “Republicans want to outlaw abortion and contraception” lie has arguably replaced the “Republicans want to take away your Medicare” as the chief scare tactic in the dishonest Democratic arsenal.
A number of Democrats are running ads this month claiming that Republicans seek to “ban all abortions even in cases of rape and incest.” Democrat John Foust in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District is airing a commercial that features a sweater-clad, thirtysomething woman telling the camera that Republican Barbara Comstock opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest. “That’s all I need to know,” the appalled sweater lady announces as she turns to leave. In fact, Comstock, who is pro-life, is on record supporting exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
FactCheck.org, noting that similar false claims were made about Mitt Romney in 2012, sums up the tactic: “In race after race, Democratic ads are misrepresenting, distorting and exaggerating their Republican opponents’ position on abortion to make them seem more strict (and therefore less popular) than they really are.”
Meanwhile, two Democratic Senate campaigns — Sen. Mark Udall’s in Colorado and Rep. Bruce Braley’s in Iowa — are peddling howling distortions of their opponents’ views on contraception. Udall’s ads accuse Rep. Cory Gardner of conducting an “8-year crusade to outlaw birth control.” In Iowa, Rep. Bruce Braley is running spots suggesting that Republican Joni Ernst would “outlaw most common forms of birth control.” Other campaigns are following the same script.
In truth, no Republican candidate favors outlawing or even limiting the availability of birth control. The Democrats’ case goes like this: Some Republicans have supported so-called “personhood” amendments — most did so to confirm their pro-life beliefs — and if you stretch the concept in a particular direction, and you presume certain implementing legislation, and you posit that the law would survive a court challenge, then such initiatives could possibly result in some forms of birth control such as the IUD (but not the pill, which is frequently flashed on screen during political ads) being considered abortifacients and outlawed. But as FactCheck.org and others agree, this interpretation requires more assumptions and speculation than can withstand reasonable scrutiny, and it flies in the face of explicit statements to the contrary by Republican candidates.
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Women want men they can respect, and men want to be respected, however Scripture says a man should LOVE his wife as Christ loved the church. Jesus died for the church (us).
So when men love women that much, and ‘actions speak louder than words” well...then men can expect THAT SUBMISSION they keep talking about. When you respect someone submission is easy. WOMEN WANT REAL MEN...not the whining, complaining, give me this and give me that babies being brought up in America today.
I respect my husband, he loves me enough to die for me, so being submissive is a return of that love through respect, and caring for his needs. Mission Accomplished.
Her deepest desire is to be barefoot and pregnant while cooking her man dinner.
Well you didn’t ASK what you get.
Provide the comfort, kindness, etc., etc., and your life will be a meal and the world your thick, drippin’ sammich.
Mmmm-MMMM!
LOL. I told my son, if you can make them laugh, you're half way there.
Often rode, never corralled! *SMIRK*
“Her deepest desire is to be barefoot and pregnant while cooking her man dinner.”
My argument is invalid. ;)
Women just want something to complain about, and I’ve got it in spades.
It may not be 99% but it’s still a majority. If not why is Alimony so prevalent? Why are divorce laws still so skewed to women if they are now equal, or in their minds superior to men? If they do not need men, why must they get into our wallets after the break up? Women do need men for financial support, delude yourself all you like. This is why single women vote Democrat. They can continue to delude themselves that they do not need a man, all the while they vote themselves goodies from Uncle Sugar.
Yes, the stay at home Mom is a minority, but that does not mean that women pay an equal share of the bills in a household, because they do not. Men still pay the lion’s share, and even though a woman may be working, that is HER money, to be spent as she wishes. Her husband’s or boyfriends money is thought to be OUR money by most women. I have seen it over and over and I stand by it. If you are an exception to the rule, that does not negate the rule.
I love these conversations. I just had one with a female acquaintance who was spouting off about all of the accomplishments of women and how useless American men are. So I had to get right down to it. I told her the un-PC truth. Women have advanced so far in America because men ALLOWED it. Oh the look on her face! I thought her head was gonna explode. So, even though I know that since she has a vagina she is impervious to facts I pressed on. I asked her, “Do you want to know why?” She said yes and then I went on to ask, “How did women get the right to vote?” I mean it isn’t like they had a presence in the government to be able to vote it for themselves. No, this amendment was passed because men ALLOWED it to be. I also told her that if she wants modern day proof as to what happens when men are not willing to allow women to have equal rights, go to any Middle Eastern country and get back to me. Let’s hear then about how awful and evil American really are. At least here we won’t stone them to death for saying so.
Nonsense. This is just the current "I'll do my part after he does his" excuse for not submitting.
Christian women in particular LOVE to believe their submission is contingent.
You missed the point, maybe that’s why you are hung up on the Submission part, and not the Happiness of marriage.
Please give me that Scripture location about ‘submission’.
Here let me give it to you, and it isn’t taken out of context but in context which you should read ALL OF IT...TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT:
Ephesians 5:22-33New International Version (NIV)
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
I'm not hung up on submission. I'm hung up on the duplicitous kind of self-justification practiced by wives who only follow when their husband leads to where the wife wanted to go in the first place.
By the way, do you see anything about "happiness" in the Scripture you cited?
Three paragraphs of total drivel. I’m still laughing.
The truth in the US is that the vast majority of women work and then they come home and cook dinner, clean the house and take care of the kids til the Lord of the Manor gets home. So if they got paid for being a chef, maid and nanny in addition to their 40 hour per week job they would be rich.
Your’e like a Democrat its all emotion. Its all got to be fair and you never let the facts get in the way of your agenda IT’S JUST NOT FAIR! LOL!
lol, you go ahead and continue to ignore the facts. Not one refutation of a thing I posted because you don’t have any way to refute the truth. And then you go on to accuse ME of being emotional. If what I posted is drivel, REFUTE IT!
I know the truth is a tough thing for you women who think you are superior to the rest of us, but throw us a bone and show us your superior intelligence. Prove that what I said is drivel with FACTS and stop with the deflecting.
Yes, women work, but they don’t make as much as men. Either that is true and the feminist BS about women only making 77% of what a man makes is also true, or women make as much as men and the feminists are lying. Which is it? And to address your whining about women doing more housework and taking care of the kids. This is because they can! Married women work LESS than their husbands, therefore have more time for household duties. When you combine paid work, housework, and childcare, today’s married parents both put in about 55 hours, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center. It’s true that married mothers do more of the housework and childcare, but in most households this doesn’t amount to an onerous burden for them. That’s because most married mothers do not work full-time (43 percent work full-time) and do not wish to work full-time (just 23 percent wish to work full-time, a fact rarely mentioned in media accounts of work and family life). http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/unequal-unfair-and-unhappy-the-3-biggest-myths-about-marriage-today/276468/
The above info is from liberal sources, which are going to give women as much credit as possible, whether it is earned or not. Because to liberals like yourself, women can do no wrong.
As far as your chef, maid, and babysitter BS is concerned, a man could hire such help and it would be much cheaper than having a wife. Especially when you factor in that the man pays more on average to maintain the household, as I demonstrated above by showing that women work less and earn less. Yes, women have made some progress, but they still, on average, contribute less financially to the household. Women earn more than men in almost a quarter of U.S. households, a huge leap from 50 years ago, when only a handful of women brought home more income, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. The above statement means that they earn less in 75% of households. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/29/pew-study-shows-women-leading-breadwinners-in-40-percent-of-households.html
As to who is like a Democrat here...well you keep on spewing feminist propaganda and then accuse others of being emotional, irrational, and like a Democrat. Let’s see how that works out for ya.
It’s hillarious that “feminists” claim to be “independent” because they “don’t need a man”,
and then end up voting for the politician that promises
that the government will protect and provide for them.
Happiness is an inner peace and comes from your personal relationship with the Holy Spirit, and when you have that ‘joy unspeakable and full of glory’ inside...then you know you are doing it right!
Take your wife some flowers and treat her like she is the most important person in the world....and quite complaining, that’s the reason the Israelites had to wander in the desert 40 years and wouldn’t be allowed to go into the promise land, and their descendents were the ones who entered.
Love her, hug her, and occasionnaly do things she would do....happiness is a by product of serving others...including your spouse. You would be amazed at how much she will enjoy serving you once she see you in action.
And yet not one thing from you on what the wife should do for the husband... So sick of this one way street.
Don't make sammiches very often. But you are welcome to help your self to the soup that has been simmering since morning. There are biscuits and honey if you like.
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