Posted on 10/05/2008 10:04:09 AM PDT by CitizenM
Not long ago, Leslie Bennetts, author of an infamous tome warning mothers that failing to work fulltime for the entirety of their lives is sure to leave them eating dog food out of tin cans, feigned shock when at-home moms everywhere took issue with her collection of sad tales.
She complained to WNYC radio of the “angry comments” left on the Today Show’s website after her interview with Ann Curry failed to create a stampede of homemakers returning to the 8-to-5 grind. She objected on the Huffington Post to the “blistering attacks” of the mommy bloggers and their “highly combative sense of indignation,” never noting that some of that indignation may stem from her likening them to “cranky children.”
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In fact, many of my acquaintances who saw a segment of the Today Show I taped with Bennetts last week assumed the same.
The set-up was simple. I was there to discuss my book, Beside Every Successful Man, a how-to guide that shows women (particularly stay-at-home and wannabe stay-at-home moms) how to help their husbands achieve greater career success, thus making the option of an at-home wife more feasible. Bennetts was there to provide balance to my research...
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Countless working women in the limelight have our respect—Sarah Palin, an unquestionably hard-working mother with little, if any airs, has inspired young women across the nation precisely because of her ability to juggle it all in a loving and functional (if challenging) family. For most of us “all” doesn’t include thinking of our husbands like enemy combatants who are just waiting for the day our paychecks drop below the half-way point to begin oppressing us. And it doesn’t involve belittling friends and family members....
Young Women's Choices and Old Feminists' Rage
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Most women don't try to take the speck out of their sister's eye, so to speak. Each family has decisions to make.
And most stay at home mothers are not “never worked”. They worked before having kids, and will probably work when kids start school or at least grow up. So stay at home is 5-20 years out of 30-50 year working years.
It sounds like Mrs. Bashan and her husband would be wonderful dinner guests, able to engage in an uplifting exchange of stories and ideas. Spending time with Leslie Bennetts and Judith Regan sounds like in ill-conceived exercise of trying to create a situation to mimic hell on earth.
Feminists are always for “choice” as long as you agree with them !
As moms, we are all just trying to do what’s best for our families What is best for mine, isn’t necessarily what’s best for yours.
Having said that, I meet lots of women. MOST wish they could stay at home.
As one who was subjected, inundated with and brainwashed by feminist rhetoric - I can tell you that they did women no favors. Many of the women I know who devoted full time to their careers and who thought they could be as promiscuous as men without suffering any consequences are now husbandless, childless, and now too old to remedy either of these conditions.
Well said!!!!
She knew that her choice had consequences - she was unable to return to a career as a Ph.D. level polymer chemist. Too many of her family and our acquaintances said she 'wasted her education." She home-schooled our two children from third through eighth grades, teaching them to be self-directed, independent learners.
The kids did well in state high school, so my wife used the time well to get teaching credentials. She now teaches Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, and Statistics at a small Christian School. Her modest income, our kids scholarships and summer job income when pooled in the family account permitted us to get both kids through their undergraduate educations debt-free. The house badly needed some work by the time we finished, but we could then take care of that a bit at a time.
The feminists may call my wife a "fool" or a "traitor." I call her a treasure and a wonderful companion. I think my wife is a far greater success than any of these highly compensated nasty nags that deride women who make the choices she did.
Not to mention how desperately unhappy and jealous they are of a stellar, professional and accomplished mother like Gov. Sarah Palin.
The feminists don't have your love and commitment the way your wife does, nor do they have the wonderful life the two of you built together. Yes it took sacrifice, but it sounds like it was all well worth it. ;)
The older I get, the more I realize the words "sacrifice" "discipline" and "commitment" are not in the feminist vocabulary. "Envy" and "jealousy" and "hate" are.
I saw this article on Townhall this morning and thought it was very informative.
One of the things the Palin candidacy has done is that it has revealed which women in public life or in journalism are content with their lives and accomplishments, and which aren’t.
This has been quite an unflattering light on some people who had presented themselves as conservative ... a “marker,” as we used to say in the insurance biz. A writer who is hostile to Sarah Palin is likely to prove to be a person with serious divergences from practical conservatism, even if they haven’t been obvious previously.
The can call me one, too, and I'll bless their hearts and offer them a muffin. My daughter, who is attending community college while trying to figure out which speciality in which armed services branch will allow her to shoot people and blow things up, would not be as charitable and diplomatic.
Being themselves is the worst punishment for these people.
Unfortunately, many times when women go out to work, they get involved with men at work and it ruins their families. It always looks greener on the other side of the septic tank.
Amen. God bless your wife, and you,too!
Amen. God bless your wife, and you,too!
Your wife sounds absolutely delightful, and your eloquent praise of her brought tears to my eyes. God bless you both.
Mrs. WBill is a stay at home Mom and the pressure she receives to go back to work - from her friends, her co-workers (she has a one-night-a-week job), her boss, even her Mom - is enormous. Fortunately she's independent enough to tell them all to go fish.
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