Posted on 12/13/2023 6:14:15 AM PST by Rummyfan
A woman said she felt “betrayed by feminism” after deciding she wanted to settle down, have a family and a husband as she approached 39th birthday. At one point during the interview with Fox News Digital, she broke down crying describing how she feared she would end up alone and childless.
Melissa Persling recently wrote an essay for Business Insider titled, “I’m 38 and single, and I recently realized I want a child. I’m terrified I’ve missed my opportunity.” She said after it went viral in November, hate began to pour in from men telling her that she’s lived a selfish life. Persling has a much different account of her story.
When Persling was 22, she married a traditional man and moved to a rural community in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where she grew up.
“He wanted a simple life with children and home-cooked meals,” she said. However, Persling – despite coming from a religious Christian background – made it clear to her husband-to-be that she did not want children.
“At that time I felt very strongly I did not want children, that I wasn’t going to be like the traditional housewife. I knew I did want to pursue a career,” she told Fox News Digital in an interview. “And I felt very strongly that that would never change. And I guess I was wrong.”
Persling said both her and her ex thought that love could conquer everything, but after 10 years, it was clear their differences in life goals were irreconcilable. Persling said she became resentful when he would ask for dinner or for his laundry to be done.
“I did little to hide my disdain for our small-town life. He was a good and hardworking man, but I don’t think I made him feel that way,” she said.
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St. Augustine’s confessions, of a sort.
At least she’s truthful. I think present generations may benefit. Some lawyer somewhere will write a fair prenup perhaps and revolutionize marriage, bringing it back to something that will not cost a man way more than half for choosing incorrectly.
I also believe those laws were set up and synchronized nationwide as a wealth transfer scheme. It was very successful. Not only did it destroy the nuclear family, it was an incredibly effective way of transferring wealth to women. The list of the wealthiest women in the world bear some of this out. Down the wealth hierarchy the results are stunning.
“ She is a prodigal daughter who is on the verge of coming home.”
Of course, you’re right. And certainly kind and forgiving.
Make it a Wonderful Day. You have changed my frown to a purposeful smile. Thank you.
Very interesting and very accurate comments.
Conviction is often both accurate and healthy -- for her and the people around her. Condemnation is always both a lie and unhealthy -- for her and the people around her.
So sad, too bad, NO dad. Probably have to go to the fertilizer factory. “What is ‘I’ll buy some sperm’ for $1000 Alex”.
Everything about modern culture represents a culture of death. It’s all lies.
We’ve been pumping women full of the ‘independent woman, you do not need a man’ garbage for decades. Now we have an epidemic of women with very unfulfilling lives. Now we have the snowflake generation where the young women immediately realize this 9-5 crap is hard....and unwanted.
...hoping the pendulum swings.
Funny cat tiktoks too. 😂
She looks like she’s midway through her 40th year fat-explosion. Had she been super hot, I might have stepped up to donate my potent and voluminous seed.
Heck, I remember back when a woman who was 25 and not married yet was called a ‘spinster’ or an ‘old maid’.
If these feminazis are now becoming disillusioned as they head full speed at the barren wall, maybe they can start to advocate revoking the 19th amendment.
WARNING - This lady is CAPTIVATING (although I feel sorry for her having to deal with the cuck interviewing her).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5b48oXylM
I’m sure she can find a black man to support and knock her up.
“I did little to hide my disdain for our small-town life. He was a good and hardworking man, but I don’t think I made him feel that way,” she said.”
Being a bitch has consequences.
Who knew?
L
-——We shouldn’t make it into condemnation-—
Why not?
She condemned her selfish self to being a spinster. As the realization of spinsterhood crept in she condemned the error of her ways
I think she can get impregnated if she puts on a little makeup and drops a couple of pounds, but the husband and marriage thing is probably not in the cards for her. A guy would have to listen to that whining all day long just to get laundry,dinner and sex.
Betrayed by her own stupid gullibility.
Feminism has never had a thing to do with strong, resilient women.
Feminism has always been a refuge for weak, flawed, Leftist women who lack the inner strength to face life as who they are.
Nearly every conservative woman I have known has had the insight to see this. They may have the equanimity to see some component or other of “Feminism” and recognize an island of validity in it, but I have never known one to embrace it as a whole.
They see “Feminism” as the toxic trap it is.
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