Several years ago I was at a dinner meeting with more than a few liberals.  The subject came up about women in the workplace.  I made the comment that not all woman dreamed of working outside the home and that I personally knew women whose dream job was to be a house wife and a stay at home mom.  Some of these liberals became very angry and said that this was absurd.  They couldn’t even imagine how any intelligent woman would feel that way.  That is one of the biggest problems for liberals.  They often can’t even fathom how someone could disagree with them.

The real war on women has been waged primarily by women.  The following chart shows exactly what the feminist agenda has accomplished:

I don’t really see how this trend is benefiting women.  There is no question that more women are working.  There certainly are more options for a woman who doesn’t dream of being a stay at home mom.   But there are also a lot of women working full time while trying to manage a single parent household.

There was a time when men quickly learned that there were two kinds of women.  The kind you married and the kind you didn’t.  There were “good girls”  and “bad girls” and men treated them very differently.   Bad girls might appear to have more fun, for a while, but history taught us that in most cases things didn’t end up all that well for the bad girls.

The feminist movement wants a world where every girl can be a bad girl with no consequences.  That is why Sandra Fluke is a heroine for demanding free contraception so she will have no restraints on promiscuous behavior.  That is also why the feminist movement is so pro-choice.  Abortion frees a woman from the responsibility of bearing a child.

The rarest thing in the movies or on television is a girl saving herself for marriage.  A girl like that is portrayed as hopelessly naïve.  Girls can now be just as sexually irresponsible as men, with no consequences.   This is great, for the guys.  But, I have to wonder if it is all that great for the girls.

A woman today is nearly 4 times more likely to find herself the primary source of income while trying to raise a family.  She is over 3 times more likely to end up raising the children alone.   The numbers are much worse for many minorities.   Congratulations feminists, you have really helped women on the path to a happier life.

Suppose that men started treating women the way it used to be?  Just think how terrible this would be for women.  Fewer women would learn the joy of being a single parent.  More men and women would sacrifice excitement for the dullness of being merely being responsible parents.  Fewer children would have the opportunity to watch their parents split up.  More women would be stuck with the terrible prospect of being a stay at home mom.  Why we might even go back to a time when a vast majority of men felt an obligation to provide for their family.   How very demeaning to women.

TDM