These liberals went after Sarah Palin like a pack of wild dogs over a bone. She isn't the only one. I have seen liberals go after other conservative women. If a woman wants to stay home and raise the children she is chastised by the feminists. I think that the feminist or women's movement has done more to destroy our families than any other single event in modern history.

 

OMGosh... you are blaming the world problems first on Liberals, then Muslims, and now women....

It is hard to debate and bring light into such a tunnel.

Gman, you didn't hit a nerve. You just created a huge head shake in disbelief. While my shoulders are broad (pun intended) , I do not carry the burden on the change of the family structure because I am female. Let me try to join in and be all goofy and tell a story of how men, through technology, created this mess with his need for "things" for fun and amusement, such as cable, dish, fiber optics, ect..... Societies, beginning with the USofA wanted to behold each and every "thing" so they set out and borrowed. Credit was easy. And of course, you had to have a suitable house to "behold" these things, so you borrowed some more. Perhaps a second house on or near water so that we could have more "things". BUT, the female will have to go out and forage for mortgage and credit card payments so that Jr. can have all the things everyone else has.

Hence, the breakdown of values and family structures is because of men

 

Much of what you noted can be traced back to the women's movement and the breakdown of the family. They are related. We have a number of problems in this country. Our primary problem is one of moral decay. Most of our problems could be solved by once again becoming a nation of Christian faith. With women entering the work force there was no one to care, nurture and teach the children. We now see children who are disrespectful and many can't even read and write, even with a high school diploma. Colleges are having to offer remedial courses just to get the children up to an acceptable level. Parents used to be involved in their children's education. They knew the teachers and what was going on with their children. It was usually the mothers who help the children with their homework. It was the mothers who greeted the children when they came home from school and talked about their day. It was often the mothers who disciplined the children, at least until dad got home. When mothers work outside of the home they cannot be there for their children.

Look, I am not condemning women for working. In some cases it was necessary just to make ends meet. Sometimes, the husband is not in the picture. And that is another story. But my question is "What about the children?" It is our children who have been forgotten. The women's movement tried to convince women that they could have it all. They could have children, a marriage and work outside the home. In fact, they were later told that they didn't need men to be fulfilled. They could do everything all by themselves. No one can do everything and do it well. Something will suffer. When one or both parents are missing from the children's lives they grow up with a somewhat distorted view of the world. Each parent brings something unique to a child's life. I know women who feel guilty and are extremely unhappy because they cannot have it all. Men can't have it all, either. I think that next to GOD our families are the most important thing we have in this life. Without a solid family structure children turn to gangs and drugs. One thing our ancestors had going for them was pragmatism. They were very pragmatic about their lives.

 

OMGosh! :hellno: Now it is the women's fault of illiteracy! I blame men again... Like Jerry Lee Lewis!!!

I think either gender could help with homework, or greet the children at the door. I know quite a few happy, functional homes with "stay at home" dads. Your view here seems to have foundation only on sexist ideals.

What I got out of the feminist movement are opportunities.

 

There were always opportunities. We make our own opportunities, regardless of gender. There was some disparity concerning wages before the women's movement. Some of that had to do with the type of job the women were doing. Not all women entered the workforce as a career. When they got pregnant they may not continue to work. Employers took that into consideration when it came to hiring and promotions. That is not always true today. Many women have babies and then go back to work and leave the rearing to daycare or the grandparents.

 

I think to a point you are right, some of the fault is laid at the woman's feet for this!!!
Ya both mother and father did help, but dad was at work and not there for the welcoming when the children got home. I see no sexist ideals from gmans post!!!
I do not think you are out of the FEMINIST movement yet. I do believe from your posts, gman HAS STRUCK A NERVE...period!!!! This is just my opinion of coarse!
Women had quite a big job back then, for the life of me cant figure out why they did not want it anymore. They were helping to shape the world we live in by giving our children what they needed to become moral adults!!! I for 1 think this was a very important job...like it or not...oh well??????

 

I remember my Dad getting all the discipline duties. "Just wait until your Father gets home!"
I use to hate my Dad's guts, because he got stuck with all the "character building."
Actually, I had it worse than most boy's. My Dad was a Gunny Jarhead. I went through 18 years of bootcamp. I was 10 or 12 before he figured out I was faking crying when he spanked me.

I was 13 when he was standing over me, barking "why are you still living here?" While I was doing 50 knuckle push-ups in the middle of the night with pouring rain, I remember screaming back... "because I have no where else to go!"

But my Mom bless her heart did all the crying for me, and probably gave my Dad less sex.

 

Nope. Your opinion is way wrong. I certainly don't need any label to place value on who I am, thus no personal effect by Gman's comment or your opinion.

What I am amazed at is the narrow mindedness (stereotypical) of the posts. Then perhaps we were at a better time when men banged their rocks together and made fire.

 

Those were the good 'ol days.
But now here in N.Michigan, it's the wimmin who drag the men back to their cave, and make them do things. You can thank feminism and sasquatch DNA for that too.

 

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I was 13 when he was standing over me, barking "why are you still living here?" While I was doing 50 knuckle push-ups in the middle of the night with pouring rain, I remember screaming back... "because I have no where else to go!"

I saw that movie too!