Posted on 03/07/2006 2:21:56 PM PST by mathprof
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.
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For what it is worth, the "fish on a bicycle" quote is not actually due to Gloria Steinem. She just made it popular.
In that case, the women I know at work are NOT businesswomen.
I would give anything to live like they did in the 50's and be a stay-at-home housewife and let my husband be the "career" man.
I hate having to work...thanx, you feminatzi's.....
Well, tell that to all the mom's who are being the dad too while their husband is fighting for our country.
Not to smart.
When my mother was an executive at a company, her goal was for people to regard her as nice, soft, warm and with some of the basic mommy type sterotypes.
But under the surface, she really could be cold and ruthless.
I remember her telling me "let your enemies mistake kindness for weakness, then take advantage of their mistakes".
I work for her now.
lol.
Elephant nation building! Assassinate the rogue leader and insert more palatable leadership. Everyone else falls in line.
The way it's written is funny, but the underlying point isn't.
We have whole segments of society now where generations of children never had two parents (usually without fathers), and it's way beyond time to correct that.
That's the way my folks did it, but now my wife works. When she expressed to me that she wanted to be a stay home mom it came as a surprise. Now we are working very hard to make that happen.
I think more and more women are making the decision that working and trying to raise a family stinks.
The stories my wife brings home from work sound just like this. She wishes she worked with men and had men for bosses.
Not just the Feminasties, Liberals in general deserve a lot of credit for that, gotta support those who won't work or can't do anything they would get paid for in the free market, you know.
One good parent cannot be as good as two good parents. I don't think Bert Prelutsky makes the argument that women cannot mangage to raise kids alone, particularly in a case where there is not really an alternative (such as a soldier who must deploy, or a widowed parent)
There have been plenty of cases of women who raised kids to be fine, upstanding human beings on their own. But that doesn't mean the child is going to have the same experience as a child with two good parents.
I like how naturally the man is missing because of the womans choice. Couldn't be that men are out to sow their seeds far and wide and perhaps are absent due to their own choices.
I think the biggest problem with all the single moms raising boys is that we're going to have a generation of men where most of them don't know how to pee standing up.
I agree.
Men play a VERY important role in children's lives (male or female) and IMO, they need that two parent (man and woman) role to help guide them properly.
Nothing against single parents, but I don't think very highly of those that "choose" to be a single parent.
God Bless those that ended up that way, by no fault of their own.
And for those that are doing it alone because the father is off protecting this country, IMO, even though he's not "at home", that father is going a long way to teaching their children something about responsibility, respect and honor (among other things). God Bless them too!!!
"Well, tell that to all the mom's who are being the dad too while their husband is fighting for our country."
The temporary absence of a father because he is away doing a man's job, protecting the family and country he loves, does not make the family fatherless, or the mother into a father. What it does is demonstrates to all what a father is and a mother is not.
A good read IMO.
Did Gloria Steinem show up at your house, drag you to a job interview, and force you to take a job or something?
If you live beyond the means one income provides, you will need two. No one forced your hand in that.
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