That's Going To Leave a Mark

Actually, this Washington Post item has already left quite a mark. And I wouldn't look for it to disappear anytime soon. Wow! This Charlotte Allen babe better hire a body guard - a male one, I think. LOL Ed at Hot Air offers an attack on Allen and a broad defense of women, the true mark of a guy who's whipped. The smart male play is to get out of the way and let the wimmens fight it out. But the fact is, there is some truth to what Allen has written, though it is most likely the result of on going differences in how male versus female children are socialized and educated. A knee jerk attack on Allen by feminists, or men who want to show off their presumably enlightened self, aren't the most well thought out responses. And finally, lost in all this, is that some women might just prefer a lifestyle based upon a traditional view of women, as opposed to the one pushed by contemporary feminists.

So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

Comments

[joeb]

I read somewhere a quote that goes:" It is good they put love in a book because it can't exist anywhere else".

[seekeronos]

I like the Bible's view of the relationship men and women have:

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20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

22. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
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(Ephesians 5:20-31, KJV)

To sum it up, God created men and women as equals, but has in His order during this epoch of history (i.e. the time after the fall in Eden until the Judgment) is for men to love their wives, and for wives to submit to the authority of their husbands.

And those men who are wise, shall themselves submit to God's Word as the final Authority.

Of course, not everyone likes this "submission to authority", whether or not it is Godly authority or otherwise... wherein arises most, if not nearly all of our conflicts.

Even for non-Christains, this is valuable if only because God's Law continues to function as much as any other law of nature (for He is the True God Who created Nature).

[joeb]

From the women's point of view the trouble with men is that they are not women.
The Oprah show would lead one to believe there is something wrong with women.

[syn]

I prefer to think of males and females as compliments to each other rather than equal; I cannot produce sperm anymore than he can produce egg yet in the attempt to equalize this biological fact we have lost sight of why we need one another.

Yes, I said modern psychobabble's most evil word in the world 'need'.

[Lala]

A famous woman said something like this (maybe I'll try to find it) Do I want to be equal to men? Of course not, I would never lower myself to that level.