Posted on 11/12/2019 10:42:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I would add lie #5
That after putting casual sex and career first, a woman is going to be able to get a good man to settle down with in their 30s......ie the 4 happy endings for all 4 women on Sex in the City. Sorry. No. That’s not reality. Look at the numbers. Want a good man? Get him in your 20s. Do not waste your youth.
The Wall and infertility don’t care.
Neither will being 55 when your kids are in high school.
“Going back to work too soon...”
Home with kids “at least for a period of time...”
Even this article is buying the lie.
My kids needed me in the home in their teens, too. Different needs but needs just the same. My place was in the home and the whole family benefited from me being there. My city benefitted. My church benefitted. The whole world benefitted.
The MAN-HATING attitude of all too many of the LOUD-mouthed “modern” American “feminists” is a MAJOR reason that many American Servicemen & EX-GIs are LOOKING ABROAD for a WIFE. = In Eastern Europe & Asia, there are a GREAT MANY smart/lovely/talented/educated/ladylike “traditional women”, who WANT a traditional marriage & (GASP!) desire to bear/raise his children.
(My LADY was born in Portland, OR 2 weeks after her parents FLED to the USA, to avoid religious/political persecution BUT she is as much a traditionally “old-school” lady as any bride, who was born abroad.)
God willing, I’m KEEPING HER for the rest of my life, as she is what The Bible calls, “- - - a pearl beyond price”.
Yours, TMN78247
There are many American women FReepers sir. Shall we make ugly accusations against all American men? I won’t.
“There’s no going back.”
Oh yes there is. Be the change you want to see
There is a disturbing amount of defeatism on FR
Gloria Steinem always got an undeserved free pass on that quote. Did any of the fawning "journalists" who interviewed her over the years ever ask why she didn't live her own life that way? Not needing men? GS's whole schtick was making promiscuity fashionable. She may not have needed a man for financial security, but otherwise ….
The Brady Bunch situation was due to mutual bereavement and was a wonderful illustration of bereaved spouses finding each other and providing for their kids.
Eh ???
Women had been voting for FIFTY YEARS when the so called “feminist movement” started...
And having going to the principal’s office when they act out.
Have I heard you speak out against women needing men like a fish needs a bicycle for the past forty eight years?
That’s what is called a prerequisite.
Barring that, spare us all your hypocrisy. Or does that only become offensive when it gets turned around the other way?
Feel free to enlighten us all.
In real life, if I was the father of three boys, two of whom were just entering adolescence, I would have had grave misgivings about having them share a house with young adolescent girls.
Women would be better off getting married early (22 or younger), having their kids in their 20's, and then going to work in their 30's.
It would work out better than trying to have kids in their 40's.
It was propaganda.
Gloria Steinem married Christian Bale's dad, who had big bucks.
Would you expect any thing less from one our elite?
Not like Gloria Steinem is going to marry some schmo.
No sir, she wanted that "security". A man with *lots* of money.
A call to singleness is fine.
If and when marriage and kids enter the picture priorities must change. For the good of all.
It’s just reality. In the last forty years the economy has restructured in such a way that most families need two incomes. Same thing is happening in the other developed economies. It would take a lot more than changes in attitudes to go back to the one breadwinner model.
“The left successfully destroyed womankind...”
They have not destroyed me or my daughters.
If any young girls are reading this, listen up:
Most jobs suck. Sayings like “hump day” and “thank God it’s Friday” did not get invented because people love their jobs.
Fertility begins to decline around age 28. Just because some Hollywood actress had a baby at age 44 does not mean all women can. That Hollywood actress is not mentioning that she used an egg donor and/or a surrogate mother.
I was in my doctor’s office and saw a poster saying that one of the things that puts a woman at higher risk for breast cancer is NOT having a baby, and breastfeeding that baby, by age 29. (Breast cancer used to be called “the nuns’ disease.”) Are young women being told this? I doubt it.
Reality is a factor but to some degree we construct it.
My husband and I were seriously poor a lot. I’ve never owned a home. Etc.
But our convictions were such that although I brought in extra money with “at home “ work (which took its toll) we battled through and raised our own children.
Who have turned out fantastic and some of whom are currently raising THEIR kids well. All of my DILs are stay at home moms.
Priorities. Of course reality enters in. But usually when there is a will there is a way.
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