| Labour activists admitted to ranking the women in terms of looks and wondering about their lingerie. Perhaps such improper musings...
Actually, I already knew the answer to that: yes. |
Posted on 06/01/2005 2:45:57 PM PDT by Pokey78
She was pregnant at the time. It happens.
I am a right brain, male dominant thinker; I like logic, facts, and reason, with a strict sense of right and wrong. When I am not pregnant, I am a very rational person, to the point where my female friends don't understand how I can be so "detached" from issues and think so "coldly."
When I am pregnant, I'm working from the heart. My fuse is measured in millimeters, not inches, and I go right for the jugular if something irritates or threatens me. When I was carrying my son, I was subject to uncontrollable bursts of rage; I could literally feel the hormones pumping through my body. Several weeks after he was born, I was myself again.
After years of frothing at the mouth insistence that they be treated as 'one of the boys', now when she has to carry the load for herself it is a whole other game of cricket, is that the problem? And what of those poor sods that tried to continue to act in a chivalrous manner to women and were openly berated for their 'outdated and insulting' attitudes (You Chauvinist PIG!) as the grand concept of Feminism wound its insidious course through our culture down through all these years gone by?
I have absolutely _NO_ sympathy. You lot made your bed; sleep in it. Or as your hero Bubba Klintoon puts it; "Better put some ice on that."
Quit your bitching.
Should have shown up on time if she wanted a seat that badly.
She wants equality, yet still expects a divine right to have every male surrender his seat to her?
This is because you think of cooking as a female task for which you have awkwardly cultivated a taste. You need to apply masculine efficiency. I can cook a great meal in a given amount of time, washing pots and pans and countertops behind me as I go.
Instead of just sitting for 90 minutes on the uncomfortable window sill, why didn't she just tell one of the male Labour MP's that she is seven months pregnant and she is very uncomfortable and could he switch seats with her?
"Until now?" Excuse me? I seem to recall raising merry hell about it at the time and being laughed at by my liberal friends. I know where I was on the issue - where was the author?
If women these days could cook, you might have a point. But it's my experience that few can make anything for dinner besides reservations.
Why women waned to step down so far for equality I will never understand.
I give my seat up for older women (and of course pregnant women), but younger ones can enjoy their "equality."
;-)
| Labour activists admitted to ranking the women in terms of looks and wondering about their lingerie. Perhaps such improper musings...
Actually, I already knew the answer to that: yes. |
Agreed. Having a job and earning a paycheck takes a great lot of time and effort. And since we can't physically be at two places at one time, either the job effort suffers or the child raising effort suffers.
What really makes me very sad is the lie that women have been fed the past 40+ years that to have real self worth, and to prove themselves "equal" to men they must have that paycheck earning job regardless of its effect on the children. I have never believed that. I have told my wife of 28 years that she was given the most important job in the world, and I honestly believe that. Her job of transforming a house into a home and rearing, nurturing, and training our children is infinitely more important than anything I can ever do to earn a paycheck or accomplish for my employer.
The effects that I have had on the company I work for will vaporize by the next day or week after I'm gone. The effect that she/we will have on the children that we raised will have an effect that could span generations -- for good or bad. Nothing that she nor I will ever do in a paycheck earning capacity will ever surpass what she has been able to do in rearing honest, productive, God-fearing, hard working young adults. I've merely provided a living for the family, but she...she has made a home and a family.
FWIW, I understand that under tough circumstances women must work outside the home to provide for the family/children. (My mother, GOD bless her, is such a woman...she provided and we lived, without government social services, on $6K a year.). In those cases, my heart goes out to them because they have been dealt a double dose of hard responsibility. However in many cases it not a "must" case but rather a "want to" case. In the latter case, the children are the ones to suffer. In the professional office I work in, many in the latter case, most all dual-income families, have a child as a badge of accomplishment, then in 6-8 weeks return to work and deliver the child daily to the socialist indoctrination youth camp (day care). My heart breaks at the lessons these children will learn from this upbringing, or lack thereof....../soft rant
I can't disagree with you there. I think it's because the wife knows who is more than likely gonna have to clean all those dishes, whereas the man ain't tuned into thinking in those terms.
I was disturbed by my own inexplicably erratic behavior when I was pregnant and discussed this with him at length. He knew I wasn't myself, that I would attack without provocation and my responses to situations were out of proportion to the actual problems, and I felt terrible because of it.
I had a vicious battle with post-partum after the traumatic and premature birth of my daughter. My husband literally saved my life by simply listening. A few times, he took off from work and stayed home with me because I was so moody and out of sorts.
I hated myself during this time.
I give full credit to men who patiently ride out the hormonal storm that is pregnancy.
Tell you wife to read this post, admit that you had a rough go of it, give you praise for sticking by her, and both of you take a night out with a romantic dinner and some time alone. IMHO, she shouldn't begrudge you anything.
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Improper? They're men. This woman is trying to "improperize" male sexuality. What, has she got a pole up her butt?