Posted on 03/07/2006 8:29:37 AM PST by GMMAC
Moms make lousy dads
By Burt Prelutsky
Townhall.com
Mar 7, 2006
One of the more fatuous beliefs that has been foisted off by self-proclaimed feminists and other politically correct lamebrains is that children don’t really need fathers. I used to say that American women, thanks to increased salaries and well- stocked sperm banks, had reached a point where they only needed men to open ketchup bottles and get stuff down from high shelves. Ladies, I was joking!
I had no idea that so many women took the line to heart. Thanks to my good joke and Gloria Steinem’s bad one – that crack about fish needing bicycles – women have become increasingly wacky. What is really surprising, considering that thirty years of feminist propaganda has promoted the natural superiority of females, is how masculine, in the worst sense of the word, women have become.
Surely I am not the only person who has noticed that these days young women are just as likely as men to smoke, to get bombed on booze and cuss in public, and perhaps even likelier to drive like maniacs and to flip you off for daring to share the road with them.
In the business world, far too many women salivate at the thought of being regarded as cold and ruthless. They are every bit as likely to torment and humiliate their employees, and to promote an atmosphere of fear and anger, especially among their female underlings. Call these women cut-throat and they think you’re trying to sweet talk them.
Perhaps it’s simply a case of Stockholm syndrome gone amuck. As you probably know, that’s a situation in which hostages come to identify, not with their rescuers, but with their captors. Women, in their own defense, might possibly claim that they’d been powerless for so long that it was inevitable that they’d take on the very characteristics they’ve despised. But that’s a load of hooey. I say, if you’re going to behave like an idiot and a bully, don’t make excuses for your boorishness. God knows men don’t!
Inasmuch as more and more women are eager to hand off their offspring to a nanny, a granny or a nursery school, you have to wonder why most of them even bother giving birth. All they seem to have to show for the experience are stretch marks.
In a society that is determined to accept the nutty notion that two gay men or a pair of lesbians are just as likely – they really mean likelier – to raise a normal, healthy child as a married man and woman, how could anybody dare suggest that a single woman isn’t equally capable? Well, she isn’t. This is especially true when the child is a boy. No matter how hard she tries, no matter how much she cares, no matter how many broken nails she’s willing to sacrifice in order to play catch with the kid, the bottom line is she’s a woman. And just because so many of the morons in Hollywood have turned single motherhood into just another fad, sort of like collagen lips and plastic bosoms, doesn’t make it a good idea.
It simply makes sense that a boy needs a man in his life to act as a role model, to show him not only how to curb his temper and to temper his testosterone, but also how to avoid being feminized into something resembling a well-dressed eunuch.
The point I am looking to make I saw made perfectly in a segment of a TV magazine show some years ago. It seems that in Africa, on a game preserve, the rangers were discovering the mutilated carcasses of several rhinos. They couldn’t determine who was responsible for the carnage, and they couldn’t imagine a motive.
After conducting an investigation, they found to their amazement that a band of teenage elephants were killing the rhinos for no other reason than that they felt like it. It was their version of drive-by shootings. Like our own urban gangs, the young rogues even had a leader.
The rangers thought long and hard about the problem. The first thing they realized was that the teenagers were free to make up their own evil rules of behavior because, like the blood-thirsty kids in “Lord of the Flies,” there were no adults in their world. All the bull elephants had been slaughtered by poachers for their ivory.
Then, because they didn’t have to answer to politicians or social workers, the rangers did two essential things. First, having determined he was incorrigible, they killed the leader of the pack. Next, they flew in several bull elephants. In no time at all, order was restored. The big guys let it be known that if there was any more rhino-stomping, there would be hell to pay. Their message was short and sweet; namely that elephants don’t behave that way.
So, for all their professional advances, there are still a few things that women simply can’t do as well as men. Some of those things, such as throwing a football forty yards in a perfect spiral or crushing a beer can on their forehead, aren’t all that essential. Important, I’ll grant you, but not absolutely essential to society at large.
However, when it comes to rearing male children, we’d all probably be better off if the ladies simply dropped the kids off in the woods for wolves to raise.
Burt Prelutsky has been a humor columnist for the L.A. Times and a movie critic for Los Angeles magazine. He is the author of Conservatives are from Mars (Liberals are from San Francisco).
Copyright © 2006 Townhall.com
Does anyone really consider this news? Haven't we known it all along?
PING!
It is long, well researched, and destroys basically every excuse anyone might have to split up a family.
Anyone considering a divorce who has kids owes it to them to read this first.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
BTTT
"Haven't we known it all along?"
Try sending this to one of your liberal "friends" and watch their head explode with anger. If you mean people with a functioning brain, then yes if you mean everybody including leftest feminazis and their cowardly metrosexual "boyfriends", then no.
I was just talking to a friend about this yesterday. He married a woman with a 16-year old son, brought up with no male influence. Needless to say, the boy is a mess. I suggested turning him over to the military when he comes of age to see if they could turn him around.
And with men too. Too many men are going through life trying to be good boys and please their masculine or 50/50 women. They sell out all the time and lose their masculine identity with the hope of gaining acceptance.
And, when you look at domestic violence situations, a surprising amount of them have situations where the woman is engaging a man on a masculine frequency, i.e., confrontation and ego. The lesser man will not recognize it and walk away but will instead engage her as if he was dealing with a man. Bad combination.
I try not to associate with the left. Bad for my mental health.
You are quite right. Too many women think equality means trying to be the same as a man, not that equal opportunities should be available to everyone. I've found that the younger an American woman is, the more likely she will be vulgar on the inside.
There's got to be a good Republican/Bush joke in there somewhere...
But...
I ain't gonna take a shot at it. LOL
My husband might disagree with you. I'm feminine, certainly, but not particularly vulnerable. As a matter of fact, my dad, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather might all disagree with you as well. I come from a long line of tough-as-nails women.
The two men I know who had to resort to importing brides from Vietnam are somewhat...unattractive. Both were reasonably intelligent, but had the personalities of cheese-graters, and the looks to match. Neither one of them could understand why the women they were attracted to didn't like them back, and never once entertained the possibility that it had something to do with them, and not the women who were rejecting them.
However, as you said, they are now both perfectly happy with their Vietnamese brides who cater to their every whim. *shrug* I guess if you have to go shopping to find someone who won't reject you, that's just what you have to do.
Texas is loaded with women who are tough as nails but who are real women.
And we celebrate them.
Good for you. All of the women in my family (including Mrs. Wbill) are *very* independent and completely able to think for themselves, thank you very much.
What's nicer, and what never gets any recognition from feminists, or for lack of a better term, anti-feminists, is that all of these independent, tough minded women are also secure enough to admit when they're wrong, or when their husbands are right. Marriage is a 50-50 proposition. A smart wife is such a tremendous asset. Mrs. Wbill is my right arm, and I have absolutely no idea what I'd do without her.
But, I still think that the article is accurate. Children need two parents - Boys to learn how to be a man, and girls to learn what a good man looks like.
Two guys and you stereotype the rest of the men who do it? Typical. FWIW, the friends of mine who have married asian women didn't import them. They went looking in asia and found what they were looking for...unlike their American wives, these women weren't ball-busting gold diggers. The men are successful businessmen and professionals who simply got tired of being an unappreciated meal ticket.
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