Seems FdeC is a "reactionary", and you, Finny are more than halfway there. Good!!
So, when HW Bush bit his tongue rather than treating Couric with the disdain a woman could accetibly dished out when Couric chided this WWII warrior for his stances on tobacco, he was being a "cowed, polite weakling"?
Men are the sole protectors of women. ANY and EVERY freedom we females have in society, including the ability move about freely and unmolested, is due solely to the good graces of men because they hold so dearly, so closely, so faithfully, to the "gentleman" ethic. It is possibly the most profound difference between Muslim men -- cowards -- and non-Muslim men, for example.
Another truth: There is nothing new under the sun. Boys grown into cowed, polite wealings because of domineering women is a phenomenon as old as the hills; so is gentlemanly behavior, thank God. Unpolite behavior towards a woman, in ANY civilized society at ANY time in history, is the mark of a coward. Women have used that to their advantage since the dawn of Civilization.
Whether or not a woman decides to agree with you about child rearing and her appropriate behavior in her particular circumstances as opposed to what you think it should be, is entirely separate from the age-old problem of domineering women creating a caste of men who are impotent metrosexuals.
In my humble opinion, no-fault divorce and a family law court system that willfully denies men the authority to be active fathers in their children's lives should the mothers of those children chose to divorce him, is the current cause of everything you bitch about and cattily throw on your vague idea of "Feminsta," which is apparently anyone who thinks that it's Palin and any other woman's own personal business to decide whether or not she wants to be a stay-at-home mom or not. The Feminista is a sympton, not a cause.
As for the Muslim men comment, I need to expand -- Muslim men who make their women wear burkhas and be covered up all the time, Muslim men who "honor kill" females at the slightest provocation, Muslim men who divest themselves of blame for indulging their own lust if a woman is anything but fully covered in public -- those are cowards, and that is what happens to women when the males around them fail to be men.
Society's malaise today was not caused by, nor will it be cured by, women with kids who also choose to have careers. Kids do best when their parents bond, follow their dreams despite what you or Dr. Laura or any other person would presume to criticize, and bring the kids along for the ride.
If Dr. Laura was dispensing advice in the early 1800s, she'd tell many a pioneer family, the ones who Tamed the West and helped forge this great nation, that they were being irresponsible and horrible to follow their dreams; she'd tell them to stay safe and sound in Boston or England, rather than "put the children at risk." And our country would be several generations ahead of where it is now in terms of cowed, effeminate men.
Thankyou molbydenum you understood the deeper issue that I was trying to bring forth- the abdication of the men - and the destruction of the culture is the proof -