Posted on 07/29/2005 8:48:21 AM PDT by Irontank
Some years ago a British officer, Sir John Glubb, wrote a pamphlet on the rise and fall of empires. A sure sign of an empire's decline and impending fall was, he said, the rise of feminism.
I believe he is right. Of all the corrosive, nonsensical and damaging movements that have come and gone in American society, none has caused more damage than feminism. Thank God it now seems to be falling out of favor.
It goes without saying that no country can be strong without strong families, and feminism directly attacked the very concept of families. It urged young women to slut around. If men are promiscuous, why shouldn't you be? That alone shows the degree of stupidity that is characteristic of the feminist movement. That's why the feminists bear responsibility for the plight of so many single mothers.
Rules that conform to nature produce positive results. Rules that conflict with nature produce bad results. Through the centuries, Western Civilization developed some rules that took into account the natural differences between men and women. The male is by nature promiscuous. Sex to the male is like eating a good meal — an enjoyable experience but one you can get up and walk away from without any thought. The woman, designed by nature to be a mother and susceptible to becoming pregnant, invests much more emotion in it.
So society, to protect women, develops rules to discourage promiscuity by both sexes. Even in my day, the rule was iron-tight. If you got a girl pregnant, you married her. No debate. No excuses. If you abandoned her and the baby, you were a worthless, lowdown dog. There were also social penalties against the girl who slept around. These rules weren't 100 percent effective, but they definitely put a restraint on the libido. There were far fewer teen pregnancies and single moms than there are now.
But the feminists dismantled these rules. Women are just like men, they said. You pick your own guys to sleep with and walk away when you're finished. Sex is for recreation. Well, anybody but a stupid feminist would have realized that the group that welcomed that message the most was the males. When females started saying, "Let's have sex with no obligations," the male said, "You betcha."
Of course a necessary ingredient of feminist-promoted promiscuity is abortion on demand, since no method of birth control is 100 percent effective. This has literally led to the deaths of more innocents than the Holocaust. And for what reason? Simply as an adjunct to recreational sex without responsibility.
Another stupid thing feminists did was attack motherhood and make it seem that working was the better choice. Anybody with life experience knows that it is 100 times more difficult and requires more intelligence and more energy to be a good wife and mother than to perform any corporate job. Corporations run themselves. Families don't. Most of the jobs men do no sensible woman would want to do.
As for the kids — those who escape the garbage dump behind the abortion clinic — they're forced to play against a stacked deck. Any child who spends his babyhood and toddler years in day care and then comes home to an empty house in his older years is going to suffer. Sometimes there's no help for it, but the feminist movement has absolutely encouraged it.
You will notice that I've said nothing about equal pay for equal work or the right to vote. Those are civil rights and have nothing to do with feminist ideology. Feminism has given bad advice to women and encouraged the worst behavior in men. Arnold Schwarzenegger is right: It encourages the development of girly men. That's probably why empires fall.
The rule is simple: Anything that encourages strong families is good; anything that weakens or destroys families is bad. And let's cut the bunk about families being any grouping you want to call a family. A family is a man and woman and their children. The hysterical harpies of feminism who tolerate chauvinist rogues like Bill Clinton while getting hysterical over any perceived threat to their beloved abortion industry should be relegated to the far-out fringes of the fruit-loop dump.
While much of feminist doctrine appears nutty to most of us, it is amazing how much influence it still has in the MSM and many university campuses. Until state supported colleges and universities are forced by those who fund them to begin to welcome points of view which are other than hard left it will be difficult to fundamentally change the culture.
As for the MSM, just keep turing away from it. They will come around to honoring other points of view in the end.
And there I was thinking feminism had something to do with equal opportunities and legal protection from abusive husbands and predatary employees!
Any ideas how I can tell my daughter she should quit school and prepare for her life as a never-was, idealised 50s-style homemaker?
you are a nit-wit..............
I agree with the thrust of this article, but am skeptical of this statement. Our prohibitions against, say, murder conflict with nature. That is why we have moral frameworks, to rein in those impulses that conform to nature, but that also produce bad results.
I've always thought that worst thing to happen to American culture was women in the workplace. Work related affairs have probably broken up as many families as all other causes combined.
No, that's what feminism *should be*. It's gone way beyond that, and you know it.
Could you explain that?
Well, I'm an attorney and I hope my daughters, when they become adults, are as happy and satisfied as my stay-at-home wife and I hope they're much happier than the mostly-unhappy women that I deal with at work every day who struggle to balance raising children and pursuing a career (really we're pushing papers) whihch they've been told is the only means to a satisfied life
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You are a smart man irontank.
I have watched with much grief as the managment in our office has slowly been taken over by women. Any men that get promoted are either girlymen or metrosexuals. The women are intelligent, knowledgable, and competent....but I do not want them in managment (or the girlymen). Leadership is mostly about personality and image...the leader sets the tone and atmosphere of the workplace. Women set a different tone and atmosphere than men....its hard to describe but its like working in a beauty salon vs working in a sports bar.
As competent as they may be, I don't think women know how to raise and keep morale...at least the morale of their male employees. Fortunately I retire in 4 years...by that time it will probably be all women executives.
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She/it is a troll of several days.
Good article.Especially the last paragraph that says "Feminism working hand in hand with communism,multiculturalism.....continues to work to undermine America at it's core."That's the bottom line.Undermine a cultures institutions(church,family,etc)destroy the infrastructure,the glue that holds it together,and eventually it will implode.So what do they(libs)want to replace it with?Anarchy?
Mtr Reese has issue. Feminism may be his problem, but it's not THE problem
Your first sentence is the stated goal, but we would have to have a much longer discussion than we can have here about (1) if that is only a subterfuge for other agendas and (2) whether the methods we have chosen (or the feminist movement has chosen) to advance to those stated or unstated goals. Of course, you can see from my questions where I stand, but I can see why you might disagree.
The "homemaker" statement might be a cliche that you would reconsider. I don't believe anyone wants a June Cleaver society, although it would arguably be vastly superior to what we have.
I believe that type society was doomed from the invention of the oral contraceptive, for better or worse, so that the entire relationship of men-women with respect to sex, marriage, and family was upset. Unfortunately, oral contraception is, for one reason or another, less than totally effective or not used. We then have a society that acts on the assumption that babies do not, or cannot, happen, while at the same time the lunacy of that assumption is manifest.
By not teaching girls about modesty, chastity and the power of feminine charm. The "cool mom" story out of Denver is a perfect example of that. (And I know she's an anomaly, but there are a lot of women that would rather be their daughter's friend then mother.)
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