tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post4733758542897642714..comments2023-10-26T05:08:20.977-04:00Comments on Connecting.the.Dots: Women Who Never Had ChildrenROBERT STEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11999996852219220599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-53400500313196165262012-08-17T07:42:54.789-04:002012-08-17T07:42:54.789-04:00In the last 50 years, women have always been able ...In the last 50 years, women have always been able to chose whether to stay home or not, have children or not, be married or not, run away to join the circus or not. It's a diminishment of women across the nation to say that a handful of women called feminists influenced them to do or not do according to their beliefs and their callings. Sometimes some mistake that the biggest mouths have the biggest influence on others. They dont. Each woman is born free. It's up to her to stay that way. It would dishonor women to say that all MUST marry, MUST have children, MUST stay home. That kind of disrespect works both ways. Millions of us are proof that we made our choices just as the small group of feminists made theirs. Good and bad came from all sides. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-28754024230332569312012-08-16T22:45:46.895-04:002012-08-16T22:45:46.895-04:00Powerful post, Mr. Stein. Unfortunately, you lose...Powerful post, Mr. Stein. Unfortunately, you lose your thread towards the end. The facts are that the second wave of feminism (political feminism) was designed and implemented not to expand women's choices, but to contract them. <br /><br />Early American suffragettes wanted the vote, they wanted women to be allowed to own property, to work if they wanted, to be free to stay home with their kids if they wanted. They wanted women, in other words, to be free, to be seen as equal not just in the eyes of God but in their own eyes and those of the law. <br /><br />The faux feminists of whom you speak sought only to exchange one set of oppressive rules for another, for their own narrow interpretation of what being a woman means. They mock, belittle, and berate women who want to be stay-at-home moms, they sneer at women who wish to marry and have children, they steal choice and replace it with service to a new vision of womanhood that is nothing more than a political and ideological trap reminiscent of that they claim to oppose. It's vile and it's totally antithetical to "sensitivity to others." <br /><br />Destroying the American family, thus destabilizing American socio-cultural framework, was the goal. Not "women's rights." Women's rights have become, as so-well defined by the Obama administration's "Julia" composite, trading one tyrant (patriarchy) for another (big government). Women who want to be wives, mothers are misfits, reviled by American "feminists." This is just another face of misogyny, made all the more ugly by the mask of "feminism." Conservatives call it, quite rightly, "femisogyny."Fuzzy Slippershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021615731454709413noreply@blogger.com