I was there for that in the 1970s when the ground was made fertile by sowing it with lies, exaggerations and false fear. Were women abused by their husbands? Yes. What was the solution? Hate all men! Women’s Liberation was founded on immorality and anarchy. “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Feminist “icon” Gloria Steinem.
Betty Friedan, one of the founders of the National Organization for Women, was vicious regarding the family, comparing it to “a comfortable concentration camp.” Look at NOW today:
www.now.org/
Sex every which way but the moral and biologically normal way. Death to babies in the womb!
And I have hope, because the radicals are frustrated today that their plan turned out to be 100% wrong, which I and others recognized from the beginning.
From the Pacific Standard:
"It is a fictional portrait of a world in which traditional family roles prevail. Mothers do the caring and nurturing, while fathers are the providers who work outside the home.
The amusingly anachronistic Leave It to Beaver? Sure. But the description also fits some of today’s most acclaimed picture books for children.
That’s the conclusion of a recently published study, which finds sex roles in these illustrated stories have been surprising stagnant over the decades.
“Children’s picture books embrace tradition,” reports a research team led by Shepherd University sociologist Amy DeWitt. “Mothers are much more likely to be portrayed nurturing and caring for children, and men are more likely to work outside of the home. “These depictions have not significantly changed over time, so that these storybook characters often inhabit a bygone, male breadwinner-female homemaker era.”
"DeWitt and her colleagues analyzed a random sample of 300 “easy children’s books” from the more than 1,400 listed in the Children’s Catalog. That directory features volumes “selected by an advisory committee of distinguished librarians” and is “used to aid school and community libraries in selecting quality books,” the researchers write in the journal Sex Roles.
They divided the books by their date of publication, starting with a group of 50 published between 1900 and 1959. Additional groups of 50 were chosen from each of the final four decades of the 20th century. A final 50 were chosen from books published in the year 2000.
"The researchers looked for specific parental actions and noted whether they were taken by a mother or father. They were broken down into nurturing behaviors (such as expressing affection for or comforting the child), care-giving behaviors (such as preparing meals or cleaning the child), disciplining behaviors (such as spanking or scolding), companionship (such as playing with the child or taking him or her on a recreational outing), and working outside the home.
“Not surprisingly, they found a large amount of gender stereotyping. But contrary to their expectations, this tendency did not wane significantly over time.”
The tendency to portray normal families was “contrary to their expectations”? Thank God!
Peace,
Ed
I don’t know where you live, but I can barely afford to pay rent sharing a house with 3 other girls at a heavily discounted rent, to the point where I need help from my parents to get by. Yet I’m supposed to just accept that if I cut back enough, my future husband could somehow make enough money to pay for us two AND children? Clearly the ideal is to have one parent stay at home, but it’s virtually impossible to do these days with companies scraping wages to bare minimums.