NY Times: Emasculate, Then Eviscerate

I almost feel sorry for schmucks that get conned into buying feminist shtick. In terms of the classic stereotypes upon which this stuff plays, they turn men into women and then they abuse them for ... being woman-ish. via The New York Times

One of the more pleasant outcomes of the slowly growing trend toward highly involved fatherhood has been, I’ve found, the ability to plainly see that total ninnyishness is not a uniquely female thing.

If I were Charlie LeDuff’s wife, I’d start listening in on his conversations at barbecues and birthday parties. When he started expounding upon the virtues of stay-at-home fatherhood, I’d slip over by his side. And then, if he started spitting up more such hairballs, I’d come over gently, squeeze him by the shoulders, and interrupt, “Always thinking. That’s my Charlie!”

Such are the vicissitudes of ninnydom.

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[seekeronos]

Ah, the two-income family.

That, friends... is the very thing which is destroying the American family, even more so than gays and polyamorists and other such riff-raff who demand special privileges, on the fringes of our society.

In the 1940s-50s... "Dad" was able to support "Mom" and anywhere up to four children on his income.

Then along came "women's lib" and the ERA and all the radical feminist dogma that said not only should a woman work, with equal pay, but she would be *less of a woman* if she did not leave her home and her role as a mother first, to take up wage labour in its stead.

Naturally, with a great preponderance of women and men now *expected* to be in the workforce, the markets and tax brackets and the economy at large have adjusted to accomodate the extra supply of labour and the demand for it... and it is all but difficult for an otherwise average middle-class American family of four to survive, much less thrive, on a single income of $50K~70K USD per annum. Most fathers of families in my age bracket whom I know... they would not be able to sustain their families at the standard of living they are accustomed to (typically owning a $350-400k USD mortgage, a $40K SUV payment book, upwards of $6-7k in property taxes, along with the creature comforts of suburban life and leisure travel) without the mothers working full time.

Lord help them if one or both of them lose their job, especially if the current ripples in the economy and esp. in the dollar start to snowball into something more like a recession or a stagflation.

The market is not to blame for this (it is only responding to conditions as the laws of supply and demand dictate) but rather, a disturbance of the perfect balance God created in the complementary roles He created men and women to serve each other in.