Posted on 06/18/2012 3:13:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
Hey feminists! STFU!
This Ms. Wurtzel, who’s depressed and addicted ... I’m supposed to care what she thinks about motherhood? Pfui.
If she had a Pink Baby, a pack of byos, a greyhound, and Netflix streaming on the Roku beeber, she wouldn’t be depressed and addicted - she’d be tiresomely chirpy, like me.
Ann Romney can stop by for a setaround any time. Seems like a nice woman.
Hey feminists, my Harvard educated, law firm partner daughter-in-law just quit her job last week to stay home with her kids. I have never seen her so happy and calm since she married my son. She felt her boys were getting what was left when the day was over. Know what? All of her friends said “You go girl !”
1% wives?? Do they mean Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer?
When they take aim at Islam I will take notice.
“Being a mother isn’t a real job”
I can tell you 100% from experince...motherhood is twice as hard as a “real job”. I did one for 20 years and I have done the other for 15 years. Working does not compare to the difficulty of doing 50 “jobs” all at the same time while getting paid in hugs and smiles. I had to stay home as my child was very sick when he was born. I could not send him to day care and we could not afford a private nurse. I will never regret having to stay home with my child. The way I look at it is: in 50 years who will remember you were an office clerk, a secretary, a nurse etc. but I can guarantee that everyone that matters will remember that I was a good Mom and my children will become good parents because of it. THAT...is priceless.
I’ve been an employee and a stay at home mother (ten kids, homeschooling ...), and the one think that is really more difficult about being a mother is that you’re never off-shift. You’ve got down-time ... I’m sitting here FReeping ... but the responsibility is always there. Two sons are watching “Dora” in the next room, and the baby is sleeping in her bouncer. Things could go from peaceful to catastrophic at any second!
I think we can safely say these are actually in truth anti-Feminists.
If a person has a five o’clock shadow and can bench press Justice Sotamayor, it’s a safe bet she/he’s probably not feminine.
This fight is ridiculous..we are not in a perfect world of mothers vs working women.
When will we stop letting the left set the dividing lines based on old commie propaganda? People just fall for it hook, line and sinker.
Working women are more republican now-a-days than mothers who watch ultra liberal shows like Oprah every day. Women are much more successful now and they get sick of paying taxes and working around government red tape.
Come on people...stop falling for the stereotypes..this is not the 60's. We and our families decide what we want to do...not nanny state Dems or Repubs...end of story.
Besides...Romney is nowhere near a typical mother...trying to make her a pivotal arguing point for mothers is a no starter. And besides, this a moldy old issue so worked over that it only makes sense to aging pols and talk show hosts.
Tax-chick...what a sweet little addition to your family! What a beautiful family!!
and the one think that is really more difficult about being a mother is that you’re never off-shift
Amen!!!! It took me 7 years before I could use the bathroom all alone ... with the door closed! That never seemed to happen at work. My husbands sister (who has a “real job”) says she would rather die than suffer the indignities of being a mother. She tells me that she works so that she can pay other people to do it instead. I don’t know how people can get their priorities so messed up. I know that there are many working women who DON’T feel this way (I was one of them) but my husbands sister seems much more representative of the NOW crowd than anyone I have ever met. I despise being around her as she talks down to me. I can honestly say, I am proud NOT to be her equal.
You can be a bitter, man hating, angry femihag or a happy, fulfilled mother and wife; your choice.
Thank you - five months old tomorrow. She just woke up, but at least I got to read some news and exchange a few texts with my husband, who is at a swim meet with six other children.
He once said he was “responsible” for his subordinates, and I asked, “Do you take them to the bathroom? Feed them their meals? Do they call you if they wake up at night and can’t find their stuffed penguins?” Like I said, you can be called on at any time for any need. I wouldn’t do anything else, though.
You are my kind of person! :)
This is the rearing investment angle of r/K Selection Theory in biology, and it applies to every other animal in nature.
r-selected psychologies in nature have a drive towards low-investment rearing. It usually manifests as single mothering the offspring, to a base level of fitness. Underlying that is an absence of care for how the child is reared. Think Mice, Rabbits, etc. And of course, Libs, as r-selected psychologies, have no concern for the quality rearing of children, supporting single mom’ing, gay parenting, and other sub-optimal parenting schemes. They genuinely can’t grasp why Conservatives care.
K-selected organisms will tend towards high investment parenting, consisting of two-parent rearing, for extended periods, expressly designed to foster as competitive an offspring as possible.
r/K genuinely explains every facet of political ideologies. Check my profile page, for a quick rundown of it.
I just think it is sad that even most conservative families don’t consider the possibility of having a mom at home. I have been home for 18 years and I don’t think anyone has ever asked me how our family does it...just pretend like we are some outlier. Even churches have stopped considering the idea of God’s provision for His people and just offer “Christian child care” so mom can head off to work from 8-6 and have a “safe/Christian environment to drop the kids off”.
I'm so glad to hear that her friends have that attitude, too.
I like Ann Romney also.
I raised two different families, so to speak with 17 years between my children.
I stayed at home totally with my son. It was what one did back then and I didn’t even think about working. I have to admit that it was easier than working. I was able to do a lot of fun things while he was in school. Maybe I could have been a better housekeeper but I was a good mother.
With my daughter it was another era. I started working part time when she was two and got a full time job when she was about 7 or 8 and in school. She stayed after school in a church day care but only for a couple of hours.
I also enjoyed working but staying home was more fun.
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