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A Message to Young Women from a Career Woman
Townhall.com ^ | November 27, 2018 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 11/27/2018 6:08:59 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/27/2018 6:08:59 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The grass is always greener.
There is no recipe for a perfect life.
2 posted on 11/27/2018 6:18:07 AM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Kaslin

God designed man and woman to live together, married, and to have and raise a family. Things do not go well when we go against God’s design.


3 posted on 11/27/2018 6:18:34 AM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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I essentially followed this path, although I have a FANTASTIC husband, but totally agree with her. Now I feel stuck working and don’t feel free. I work in a very man centric business and it’s a slog, day in and day out.


4 posted on 11/27/2018 6:23:39 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: Kaslin

One of the best books I’ve read in the past few years has been: “Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism” by F. Carolyn Graglia, published in 1998.

Makes a very strong case that Feminism was started by barren women who did not have kids, did not want kids, or had kids and felt no maternal love for their children. Feminism is an effort to disparage love, marriage and children — an effort pushed by jealous, bitter women.

The book covers women in the workplace before Feminism — lots of career opportunities for women — if they wanted them. But most women found their happiness as homemakers. That continued until the Feminists told the happy women that they were not happy and that they need careers to be happy. Now women have careers — and they’re miserable.

Also covers sex in detail and makes a strong case that men and women back in the “strait-laced” decades (ex. boring 1950s) actually had stronger, healthier, more satisfying sex lives than people do today with the “hook-up” culture.

Feminism has been very bad for everyone: men, children, and especially women.


6 posted on 11/27/2018 6:25:56 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Kaslin

While I agree with this message in general, I think it’s a mistake to suggest to young women that you must find someone while in your twenties. People can wind up just as miserable marrying the wrong person from a sense of urgency as from lifelong alone-ness.

Young women should have an ideal of the kind of person they would like, and then just let it go; live, laugh, make friends, with confidence that the right person will come along at the right time.

I didn’t meet my husband until I was in my late ‘thirties. Nobody that I met and fell in love with prior to that could have made me as happy as he has done. There were moments when I was lonely and wondered if I’d ever find him; but in general I had been raised to have many passionate interests and to believe in myself; and those years alone were filled with interesting pursuits and experiences that led to a lot of self-development.


7 posted on 11/27/2018 6:26:25 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Kaslin

One is responsible for one’s own choices and path.
Sorry, but that’s inescapable. The people you claimed programmed you are long gone, and the helm is in your own hands now. Steer as you will.

Once, American education and parents taught self-reliance and self-determination, along with self-control.

There were (and still are) actual Right and Wrong, and all things are NOT flexible and situationally relative.

“The Code Of The West” still applies, and ultimately always will.

I fell sad for this lady, and I hope she sees there are still fresh options and new paths, even if a few have been cut off by too many passed years.

She can still choose to be happy.

Go on a singles cruise for middle agers. They exist. You’ll find someone to share your life with, and make each other happy.

I did.


8 posted on 11/27/2018 6:28:15 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: Kaslin
I'm a 64 YO man, and I retired at the end of last year. We have enough money to get by, and I'm healthy enough to work a variety of part time jobs as I desire.

There is NO amount of money that could keep me working, you can't put a price on my walking my 8 YO grandson to/from school a couple of times a week.

LOL, "retirement" will become happier for me, once we complete our home remodeling projects.

9 posted on 11/27/2018 6:28:28 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: central_va

If she’s smart it’ll see no action unless she gets married.


10 posted on 11/27/2018 6:28:53 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

She should be HAPPY with herself. She is the PERFECT LEFTIST, making sure that she dies off, there won’t be any offspring to continue the destruction of the planet.


11 posted on 11/27/2018 6:31:22 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Kaslin

I know several women who constantly tell their daughters that they should plan their life on the assumption that a man will not be there, and that they had better take care of themselves.
Then they are amazed when the very thing they trained and equipped for becomes their reality.

When discussing this with one woman, I told her maybe people should be focusing on training their daughters on how to build a good relationship with a man. She looked at me like I had two heads.


12 posted on 11/27/2018 6:31:31 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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There's not a good answer for it except 'I was programmed to get into the workforce, compete with men and make money

This counter-instinctual programming is well into its third generation, with no end in sight. It is deeply embedded into our education system, our media, our politics, our entertainment...and it takes a young woman of great character to reject it and endure the subsequent criticism of the brainwashed majority.

It’s nice that this lonely voice is saying “Don’t do it!” but it is going to take a massive cultural revolution to overthrow entrenched feminist dogma.

13 posted on 11/27/2018 6:31:33 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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The feminists sold 3 generations of Western women a lie, and turned “having it all” on its head. Women ought to marry young, have their children during their prime fertility years, and once the kids are in school, THEN go to university. Women will be older, wiser, have stability, and a better idea what they want to study...and less likely that it will be Gender Studies.


14 posted on 11/27/2018 6:33:58 AM PST by EURASLEEP (The EU is Crashing and They're Asleep at the Wheel)
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To: Kaslin

Refreshing that people can be this candid, given the ultra PC culture we have.

Only issue is that I wouldn’t say ‘men don’t like competition’, as many men are highly competitive. Competition keeps the ‘blood flowing’; keeps you sharp. Forces you to be your best (if you want to win).

What men don’t like is constantly walking on eggshells worrying: “do I treat her like a lady, or treat her like one of the boys?” Either way a guy can be setting himself up for a visit from the PC police at best, or a false #metoo allegation somewhere down the line at worst.


15 posted on 11/27/2018 6:34:06 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: CaptainK

Agreed. But the left do attack stay at home moms. No balance there


16 posted on 11/27/2018 6:34:28 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Jamestown1630

the real message the woman misses is that she’s missing God, not a man, but the relationships come from God’s leading when you let him. No man or woman can fulfill what only God can fulfill so I agree as well.

this is exactly why the left pushes the government to take the place of God, the husband and father; it’s ALL a work of the devil.


17 posted on 11/27/2018 6:35:31 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: ClearCase_guy

“...barren women who did not have kids, did not want kids, or had kids and felt no maternal love for their children. Feminism is an effort to disparage love, marriage and children — an effort pushed by jealous, bitter women.”

Sounds like most of the political elite in Western Europe.


18 posted on 11/27/2018 6:35:36 AM PST by EURASLEEP (The EU is Crashing and They're Asleep at the Wheel)
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To: MichaelCorleone

That’s true, the days of treating women the same as men are now gone. They’re treated as sensitive children instead.


19 posted on 11/27/2018 6:36:10 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: central_va

...front hole sees little action

Not sure about that, a 40 something divorced about 2 years friend says she has sex with 2 -3 NEW guys a WEEK


20 posted on 11/27/2018 6:38:00 AM PST by Jolla
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