Posted on 03/29/2009 5:51:07 PM PDT by OneVike
From the day the founding Fathers risked their liberty and life by signing the Declaration of Independence, there has been those who have wanted to sink this great ship called the United States of America. Well 143 years later the good ship America took a torpedo hit that at the time seemed like just another glancing blow. What many still consider the greatest step forward in equality for the sexes, was more then just a glancing blow however. It was in fact a deadly strike that entered the very heart of the ship and has been smoldering since. The damage caused by the 19th amendment was slow in its destruction, but after almost 100 years we can now see how complete the destruction really was.
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What’s wrong with the fifties?
But, you said.... ;)
Dragnet-The Movie...ballz as big as church bellz
Very nice.
But again, where does a church keep its BALLS??
I’m with Mrs. OneVike. For the good of the nation, I’d give up my vote.
Let’s face it, as a group, the men vote a lot more intelligently.
I have to assume that a lot of women are voting for a husband to take care of them and their children.
I’d be interested in seeing the difference between married and single women’s voting.
I’ll bet the married do better.
I thought this was going to be a fun lighthearted thread with some give and take...
LOL...
“in fact, he states that it was men who abdicated responsibility and led to this.”
Yes, like the church, so like the state.
It is when the men get LAZY that this happens. Cowboy up, y’all.
I will after this article. I will set one up.
No clue.....on ice?
I don’t think this article goes by generalizations. If you compare the votes of women with the votes of men, the women as a group vote way more socialist. That isn’t a generalization, it’s the truth.
I don’t vote socialist. But we’re talking about the group as a whole, here.
Probably. Their husbands tell them who to vote for.
I’m glad to hear from another woman who can see clearly.
I am a Christian now but I found my way to God through Conservative Judiasm. They say there that women don’t have to go to shul (church) because they bear children and have a “direct line to God”. The men have a different relationship with God and have things they have to do which frankly, I have no desire to emulate.
God made us all, but gosh darn it, we are different sexes and cannot equalize no matter how much we discover about DNA and socializing trends and stuff.
Not in this house....I “tell” and I use that phrase VERY lightly....Gramps how to vote.
I have FR...he doesn’t.
Mark Twain, both in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn , advanced progressive notions about blacks, and about journeys and escapes into freedom. His novel, Innocents Abroad poked fun at both American and European mores. In fact, Twain's notoriety was that he poked fun at many conventional mores. That Twain was shocking in his day is irrefutable, and does not employ the application of a 20th century rearview mirrors, so to speak, and as you would imply.
An excerpt from the 1885, May 25th, Atlanta Consitution, written by an "ordinary person," to satisfy you goes to great length to explain that Twain was viewed as a progressive:
The American leisure class--the class that might be expected to patronize good literature and to create a demand for sound, conservative criticism--is not only fond of horses, but is decidedly horsey. It is coarse and uncultivated. It has no taste in either literature or art. It reads few books and buys its pictures in Europe by the yard. We are led to these remarks by the wholly inadequate verdict that has recently been given in some of the most prominent newspapers as to the merits of Mark Twain's new book, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The critics seem to have gotten their cue in this instance from the action of the Concord library, the directors of which refused the book a place on their shelves. This action, as was afterwards explained, was based on the fact that the book was a work of fiction, and not because of the humorous characteristics that are popularly supposed to attach to the writings of Mr. Clemens. But the critics had got their cue before the explanation was made, and they straightway proceeded to inform the reading public that the book was gratuitously coarse, its humor unneccessarily broad, and its purpose crude and inartistic.It is the story of a half illiterate, high-spirited boy whose adventures are related by himself. The art with which this conception is dealt with is perfect in all its details. The boy's point of view is never for a moment lost sight of, and the moral of the whole is that this half illiterate boy can be made to present, with perfect consistency, not only the characters of the people whom he meets, but an accurate picture of their social life. From the artistic point of view, there is not a coarse nor vulgar suggestion from the beginning to the end of the book. Whatever is coarse and crude is in the life that is pictured, and the picture is perfect. It may be said that the humor is sometimes excessive, but it is genuine humor--and the moral of the book, though it is not scrawled across every page, teaches the necessity of manliness and self-sacrifice.(http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/atlanta.html)
Here, self-sacrifice, embracing your fellow man (and the logic by extension is your fellow woman) is considered a mark of manliness. In other words, treating others as your equal, is, in 1885 America, a mark of manliness.
I would note that the language here, and evidenced in just about any journal of note at that time is far superior, far more erudite than the tripe fobbed off as writing, and journalism in most American papers and journals today, save .
No, Mary: progressive thought, beginning with Ben Franklin, was interwoven into the fabric of American culture and thought.
The luddites here must be trolls from DU sent here to discredit normal freepers. V's wife.
I certainly am for a literacy test for voting (exception for the legally blind). If you can’t read, you are not smart enough to vote. You can’t possibly have researched the life and death issues thoroughly enough. Just go learn to read, then register to vote.
That’s how I am with my husband. He has called me his daily news broadcast.
My wife has always asked who she should vote for and I am always happy to give such advice and the reasons why. She is now reading Mark Levin’s new book. She rarely misses Rush or “The Great one” on radio. So, I am glad women have the vote because now I get to vote twice.
So let's test the idea. Saudi Arabia and much of the Muslim world don't allow women freedom, therefore they must be more logical (hey they gave us algebra) and consequently living in a better society. I don't see many women running Asian counties and business. They must be living in paradise.
How do juveniles get to post here?
Yep! They know we have FR!!!
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