Posted on 04/22/2002 4:40:48 AM PDT by kattracks
Talk about dumb broads
Posted: April 22, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
If women are so smart, why are they so dumb?
And before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm entitled to criticize females because the last time I checked, I'm one of them. Katie bar the door, I'm about to be incredibly politically incorrect.
Women have been sold a bill of goods, which they bought hook, line and sinker. Ever since the '60s, when the brunt of feminism hit the media, the message was clear: Go for it! You can have (be, do, experience) everything!
There's only one problem. It isn't true. Never was. Never will be.
But men knew that. Lost in the burst for female "freedom" was the ugly truth that men, who supposedly had "everything" that women were being denied, were really victims of a system that kept them prisoner.
It was the price they paid for being men. Their role in life was to be the breadwinner, the master of the home, the head and protector of the family, the person ultimately responsible for the survival of his tribe and the soldier-protector of his country.
He had to be brave, smart, hard working and supportive of the family. He had to be husband, father, son, sibling, uncle, neighbor, friend. He had to work to earn the means to play all those roles, and he had no choice.
This isn't to say there weren't scoundrels. Of course there were – men who deserted their women and children, who drank or gambled the family earnings, or womanized their way through marriages which hung together for "the sake of the children."
Guys like that aren't new and are still around. In fact, women's liberation has been great for men who prefer to chill out, and societal changes make it easy.
Want sex? Take your pick. Chicks are there for the asking; in fact, they'll compete to be the "chosen one" for the day. Or night. No questions. No promises. How great is that?
Don't want kids? No worry. There's all kinds of prevention (sounds like a plague, doesn't it?) with most of the responsibility on her. And if they don't "work" and a new life gets in the way, just get rid of it. It's legal, private and accepted. And if she's really a "today woman," she might not even tell you and just "take care of things" on her own. What a gal! What a life!
Don't want marriage? Duh. Just live together. Get the bennies and avoid the legal technicalities. Get tired of that? Leave. Hey, the door is always open.
Women's liberation freed men from responsibility. It encouraged women to "find" themselves. They were urged to "go for it" careerwise.
Of course they could do it. Women are smart and able to work hard and succeed. But by doing it, they walked right into the trap that men had been in all along.
Now they find themselves in careers that are time-consuming, require travel away from home and envelop their lives. In that sense, women turned into what they originally disliked about their men and in the process, made the ugly discovery that a major tradeoff was the signature of their femininity. They gave up or lost the opportunity to be a wife and a mother. Why weren't they smart enough to see that?
A new book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, "Creating A Life," comes to the conclusion, after surveying nearly 1,200 high-achieving career women, that they missed life. One was quoted as saying "I forgot to have a child."
Forgot? Give me a break! Any woman who "forgets" so basic a part of the female psyche isn't smart enough to be considered a high achiever. Either that or today's standards aren't what they're cracked up to be.
Women always had to choose. The choice for career meant sacrificing the family role. And that is the key. Sacrifice. Women are supposed to have been liberated from sacrifice. They are supposed to be able to have and do it all. Except for the fact that it doesn't work.
The real tragedy of Hewlett's findings is the real, human loss to those women. By the time they realize the loss, they're too old biologically to have a child, and too old socially to find an appropriate man to marry. If she's been divorced or earns too much money, it's even harder.
As for the men, as the old saying goes, why buy the cow when the milk is free?
It makes you wonder who women's liberation really liberated?
Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker" as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, television and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
However, I must admit, after all those women went 'ga-ga' over Gore's mauling of his wife, Tipper, at the Democratic convention, I was one of the first calling for the repeal of the 19th amendment! LOL!
I have a guy and we love each other dearly. But I made the decision to not have to have sex until my wedding night--I've seen too many of my friends break off their relationships/engagements when they had formerly been absolutely sure about marriage. "Oh, we're going to marry someday anyway..." Pardon the language, but big BS! If a guy breaks up with you over not having extramartial sex, he's not worth it!
Reading stories like yours give me confidence that I am making the right decision. All my friends seem to be roomming together with their boyfriends now, screw marriage until you're at least 25 years old. There is incredible pressure on me (and everyone else of my generation) to just live together with my significant other.
Thank you. Spouses like you and your wife provide a shining example to our generation that the don't-have-sex-until-marriage life is indeed still possible.
Or do you just not love her enough to marry her?
Or is this entire setup her idea?
However, men are hardly the sole possessors of logic and reason. Seems the world was pretty screwed up for many, many years when men controlled all the institutions.
And sheesh...look at the Arab world. Women don't have much of a say there and well, just look at it. For some reason, I don't think you'd be much less cynical in THAT environment!
There is not hurt in the world like when you have a child from whom you are forcibly separated. You should know that there probably will be no respect and real love in this arrangement and neither of you will feel any real committment or obligation to each other.
Good luck, but I think you will emerge from this jaded and cynical about relationships. It's too bad your girlfriend doesn't have enough respect for you or herself to insist that you get married. Just don't have kids.
Au contraire, young man. My niece got pregnant WHILE SHE WAS ON THE PILL!! They are not infallible, you know ( unless held tightly between the knees). And no, she was not a crackwhore, just silly enough to believe the guy was 'in love' with her so she had sex with him. When she told him she was pregnant, he was ok with it for about 2 weeks, then he told her he wasn't ready to be a father, and she should get an abortion. She was devastated, but had the baby anyway, a lovely girl who is now almost 15.
Feminism--which played a large role in making cohabitating socially acceptable--has benefited men much more than women for the above reasons. Plus, now men are much less inclined to make a commitment--like the author said, why buy the cow when the milk is free? Now guys don't even to have to say the "l" word (love) for what they really want. Your girlfriend may like all this, but as other posters have pointed out, when she's 25 she won't like it nearly as much when she wants to settle down & no one will look her way as anything more serious than "free milk".
I'll spare you the lecture on cohabitation; it's your life. The original point of the article was that the feminism/sexual revolution benefited men greatly and at the same time shortchanged females.
OK, this is subject-changing & a bit of unrelevant ranting because I'm in a romantic mood, but I am so lucky to have a guy who is not afraid of commitment. He never even flirted with me or made any kind of move. We were best friends for a while and then he said "I love you" out of the blue. :) I've dated around enough to know that it's a very rare thing in this generation for a man our age to not to be afraid to love.
ROFLOL! You don't think he's that way already?
Know what I mean?
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