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Who women's lib actually liberated Exclusive: Barbara Simpson says females duped into ditching home
WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/22/02 | Barbara Simpson

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.



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To: grammymoon
I chose to marry and raise children, that was and is my primary job.

Well said! Me, too. I once had a mom from my son's school ask me *Do you stay at home or do you DO something?* My husband restrained me from decking her . . .

21 posted on 04/22/2002 8:35:24 AM PDT by WIladyconservative
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To: weikel
LOL The funny part is, you think you've supported what was said in this article, then boast about moving in with some dame. If she gives you all the "stuff" without the benefit of you making an actual commitment to her, she's just plain stupid. . .she's one of the feminazis you mention. Read the article again.
22 posted on 04/22/2002 8:40:51 AM PDT by MEGoody
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To: WIladyconservative
. I once had a mom from my son's school ask me *Do you stay at home or do you DO something?* My husband restrained me from decking her . . .

Don't let women like her make you angry. She is envious of you. Take her envy as a compliment.

23 posted on 04/22/2002 8:53:23 AM PDT by katnip
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To: weikel
Shoot, that's nothin'! Why, when I was your age, in college, I lived with a couple of dozen women, they all beat Katie Holmes in the looks department, were all MD-Ph.D. types, I had sex with them all every night, they all willingly bore my children and didn't dare think about an abortion because they knew they were doing mankind a favor by perpetuating my genes! And, I'm still alive in my fifties! And the same kind of women still want me! And, and, and... Now top that, whippersnapper! LOL....
25 posted on 04/22/2002 8:58:30 AM PDT by chimera
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To: weikel
...and ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk posted so often by some people here.

Ya ever thunk maybe the reason we post that bunk is because we been there, done that, and got the t-shirt?

I can give you lots of reasons, none of them religious.

26 posted on 04/22/2002 9:14:44 AM PDT by jimt
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To: chimera
Well I can't top you I presume you look something like this LOL
27 posted on 04/22/2002 9:29:53 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Aquinasfan
My dad liked her immediately which he was not inclined to do before he heard of the arrangement.
28 posted on 04/22/2002 9:31:16 AM PDT by weikel
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To: weikel
Well, I'd take Henry's looks, as long as doing so doesn't include his politics...:-)
29 posted on 04/22/2002 9:31:44 AM PDT by chimera
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To: jimt
Only crackwhores get knocked up( don't bother telling me this isn't true because it was in my highschool no non cw ever got pregnant) and VD is pretty rare among non crack whores too.
30 posted on 04/22/2002 9:41:59 AM PDT by weikel
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To: chimera
I never knew where he stood politically but the Fonz was cool.
31 posted on 04/22/2002 9:42:33 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Thinkin' Gal
It will definitely be fun and it is cheaper then the dorm food & board.
32 posted on 04/22/2002 9:44:38 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Cowgirl
Not religious but am a pro constitution, pro war, pro free market, and pro israel conservative so don't consider me a bad guy?
33 posted on 04/22/2002 9:48:39 AM PDT by weikel
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To: weikel
I criticize them a lot and for a while didn't have a girlfriend but am living next year in an apartment with a girl just below Katie Holmes in the looks department who has promised to do the cooking and ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk posted so often by some people here.
Hmmmmmm...too bad a coed majoring in English was not available.
34 posted on 04/22/2002 9:49:50 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Stand Watch Listen
She's biochem.
35 posted on 04/22/2002 9:52:08 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Stand Watch Listen
And yes I'm not a great writer okay. English was the only course I never took at level 1 or AP in high school. I'm not a great writer and English was the main course where they pushed liberal propaganda down your throat( ussually) so I did not care you can't be taught to be a great writer and I'll admit I don't edit my post for grammar much. During English class I would ussually goof off, or play "Penguins" on my TI-82.
36 posted on 04/22/2002 9:56:44 AM PDT by weikel
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To: kattracks
The really BIG dirty secret they forgot to tell women as they were urging us to go out there and get a job and have it all, is that after awhile, many of us would have little choice but to do so. THE COSTS OF MERCHANDISE AND SERVICES EXPANDED TO FIT THE ABILITY OF PEOPLE TO PAY THEM! An example: housing prices are inflated to reflect the mortgage interest tax deductions. Remove that deduction, and the prices will go down, and the real estate lobby admits it, and opposes removing the deduction for that reason! Two income couples outbid one another for their homes, raising prices in the process, and thus shooting themselves in both feet! It now takes two jobs to have the life that we took for granted with one paycheck, when I married in the late fifties. With one paycheck of between four and five thousand dollars a year, a young couple could buy a house, furnish it, have a child, a dog, eat well, and even have some entertainment. I know, because we did it. We even managed to SAVE some of that money -- now there's a novel concept. Then, when our children were in school, I went back to work as a teacher, and I truly did "have it all" -- the pleasure of a challenging and satisfying career with time off when my children were off, the respect of the community, and an extra income to bank and invest. Some couples are still managing to live that "fifties" stay-at-home-Mom lifestyle while their kids are young, even in our high rent community, by employing careful planning and frugality, but I observe that more live at the outer edges courting financial disaster and meltdown in case of recession, working long hours at demanding jobs, in order to "have it all," with marriages coming apart at the seams as a result of all the expectations that cannot humanly be met.
37 posted on 04/22/2002 10:15:57 AM PDT by MI_too
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To: weikel
Sorry, but I'm one of those "no sex before marriage 'bunk'" people you're criticizing.

That, too, is a relic of the lies promulgated by feminazism. A woman who "put out" used to be one who didn't respect herself.

She still is.

38 posted on 04/22/2002 10:36:21 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Illbay
The feminazis are lesbos.
39 posted on 04/22/2002 10:41:06 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Lizavetta
You said it perfectly!!
40 posted on 04/22/2002 10:53:34 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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