And what the hell does all that have to do with a man who wants to draft ALL womwn because he THINKS they ALL vote for warmongers?
My husband had those two magical little letters after his name that left him subject to being drafted LONG AFTER others would age out if they needed someone with his skills so I can assure you I NEVER voted for needless conflicts.
But anyone who would support a man who wants to take the vote away from ALL women because of the way SOME women vote doesn't read posts carefully.
There is misongeny. And there is misandry. That is an unfortunate fact of life -- some people ARE extremists. I suspect I am older than you and consequenty lived through the worst of the pre-first wave women's movement (which, was necessary). Girls were treated like less than dirt and everything was about the boys in the family. It wasn't surprising that women finally rose up and said "Enough!".
To give you an example -- my sister-in-law came from a very wealthy family. There were three sons and three daughters. My mother-in-law told me that her father approached my father-in-law to enquire about his will.
It seems that he intended to leave his estate to his sons only and wanted to be sure his daughter would be cared for in the manner to which she was accustomed. Thus his "solution" was to attempt to talk my father-in-law into disinheriting my husband so his daughter would still have certain perks. My father-in-law was shocked. My mother-in-law was furious.
This man was all about his SONS and expected my father-in-law to provide for his daughter by neglecting his own son. But he probably didn't want to get talked about by other people, so I bet he pulled that with his other daughter's in-laws too. That's the crux of the matter right there.
Men at the time put extreme value on boys, that they didn't on girls. We girls were there to clean house. Big thrill.
So don't crap on the concept of the woman's movement. Without it, all you would be looking forward to in your life would be time spent with the Tidy Bowl man. And Prince Charming would save you so he could introduce you to the water closets in his castle.
I have no great love for third wave feminists. They have no idea what the movement was about in the first place and whine about bullshit. We are talking genuine slavery. We are talking going to work outside the home and having the parents confiscate your paycheck if you were female, but males got to keep their check.
You really have no clue how difficult it was and how hard we fought to just be able to live like a normal human being and have some hope for a decent future.
I had three college scholarships and wasn't going to be allowed to go, until my high school homeroom teacher embarrassed my parents into letting me accept one of them.
THIS is why there was a women's movement. And it had nothing to do with the crap going on today.
So don't go supporting some misogynist who wants to chain your daughter to a toilet brush. Been there. Done that. It sucks.
Damn straight it was. I stayed home with my children and was a housewife. But to this day my husband says the quality he admired most in me was my intelligence.
And don't worry about my being a boomer. Paraphrasing the great Ronald Regan, I won't hold your youth and inexperience against you.
I stayed home with my children and was a housewife.
Then you'll understand why allowing women's suffrage is a horrible idea: it's akin to allowing your 3 kids an equal vote in the household budget because they contribute too!
Women's suffrage is giving a 56% controlling majority to the group that only contributes 25% of the funds to keep government going while receiving 80% of government welfare.
You can't possibly be serious with that question, can you? If you are - it makes me wonder what kind of women you know.
My husband is a brilliant man and is top notch in his field. Still -- he would be the first one to tell you that we are complementary opposites in terms of our knowledge base and skill set. Between the two of us, there is seldom a field of interest one of us hasn't studied at some point. This led to advantages in investing which, would not have been possible had not one or the other been versed in related subject matter.
In addition, quite honestly my parents did not care about me at all because i was a girl. I was literally "on my own" and knew it from a very early age. I couldn't afford the luxury of making "mistakes" because I knew nobody would care enough to help me if I did. Consequently, I have been "street smart" in way my husband could never be (when young) -- he was loved by his family.
As queer as this may sound, this one odd "facet" of who I am -- saved my husband from making a fatal error in business which would have ruined our entire lives. This occurred early in our marrige when a "friend" of his from university offered him a chance to invest in the "deal of lifetime".
I won't go into details -- but my husband, brilliant as he was at the time in his field, almost got taken to the cleaners. Except for the fact that his "other half" could spot a con a mile away. I couldn't afford to make mistakes -- so I learned not to. And over the years, he learned this skill from me.
Marrige is (or should be) a partnership. I was more than a "housekeeper" in the sense of keeping things tidy. I kept "house" in the sense that my skill set and knowledge base plugged whatever "gaps" he lacked (and vice versa).
For your own sake, i hope you have an epiphany before you decide to wed. A wife is not equivalent to a pet dog that you keep and feed. She will have a brain and thoughts of her own. And if you are very, very lucky -- if the chips are ever down and your back is up against the wall-- she will be by your side (metphorical sword in hand) charging into battle saying like Valeria ---"hey, do you wanna live forever?"
Exactly how did I fuck up society?
I got my degree and I got married. All of my college female friends married guys they met in college and had children. Those children grew up and also went to college.
If you have a problem -- did you ever think it's something you are doing that hasn't made things work out the way you want?
Perhaps you don't realize there's an art to getting a man to make a commitment. Take your mom or your grandmother out to lunch and ask them how it's done. And listen to what they have to say -- you won't like the advice -- but it's foolproof and you'll be able to get rid of the cat.
And what the hell does all that have to do with a man who wants to draft ALL womwn because he THINKS they ALL vote for warmongers?
My husband had those two magical little letters after his name that left him subject to being drafted LONG AFTER others would age out if they needed someone with his skills so I can assure you I NEVER voted for needless conflicts.
But anyone who would support a man who wants to take the vote away from ALL women because of the way SOME women vote doesn't read posts carefully.
There is misongeny. And there is misandry. That is an unfortunate fact of life -- some people ARE extremists. I suspect I am older than you and consequenty lived through the worst of the pre-first wave women's movement (which, was necessary). Girls were treated like less than dirt and everything was about the boys in the family. It wasn't surprising that women finally rose up and said "Enough!".
To give you an example -- my sister-in-law came from a very wealthy family. There were three sons and three daughters. My mother-in-law told me that her father approached my father-in-law to enquire about his will.
It seems that he intended to leave his estate to his sons only and wanted to be sure his daughter would be cared for in the manner to which she was accustomed. Thus his "solution" was to attempt to talk my father-in-law into disinheriting my husband so his daughter would still have certain perks. My father-in-law was shocked. My mother-in-law was furious.
This man was all about his SONS and expected my father-in-law to provide for his daughter by neglecting his own son. But he probably didn't want to get talked about by other people, so I bet he pulled that with his other daughter's in-laws too. That's the crux of the matter right there.
Men at the time put extreme value on boys, that they didn't on girls. We girls were there to clean house. Big thrill.
So don't crap on the concept of the woman's movement. Without it, all you would be looking forward to in your life would be time spent with the Tidy Bowl man. And Prince Charming would save you so he could introduce you to the water closets in his castle.
I have no great love for third wave feminists. They have no idea what the movement was about in the first place and whine about bullshit. We are talking genuine slavery. We are talking going to work outside the home and having the parents confiscate your paycheck if you were female, but males got to keep their check.
You really have no clue how difficult it was and how hard we fought to just be able to live like a normal human being and have some hope for a decent future.
I had three college scholarships and wasn't going to be allowed to go, until my high school homeroom teacher embarrassed my parents into letting me accept one of them.
THIS is why there was a women's movement. And it had nothing to do with the crap going on today.
So don't go supporting some misogynist who wants to chain your daughter to a toilet brush. Been there. Done that. It sucks.
Damn straight it was. I stayed home with my children and was a housewife. But to this day my husband says the quality he admired most in me was my intelligence.
And don't worry about my being a boomer. Paraphrasing the great Ronald Regan, I won't hold your youth and inexperience against you.
Then you'll understand why allowing women's suffrage is a horrible idea: it's akin to allowing your 3 kids an equal vote in the household budget because they contribute too!
Women's suffrage is giving a 56% controlling majority to the group that only contributes 25% of the funds to keep government going while receiving 80% of government welfare.
What part of that sounds like a good idea?
You can't possibly be serious with that question, can you? If you are - it makes me wonder what kind of women you know.
My husband is a brilliant man and is top notch in his field. Still -- he would be the first one to tell you that we are complementary opposites in terms of our knowledge base and skill set. Between the two of us, there is seldom a field of interest one of us hasn't studied at some point. This led to advantages in investing which, would not have been possible had not one or the other been versed in related subject matter.
In addition, quite honestly my parents did not care about me at all because i was a girl. I was literally "on my own" and knew it from a very early age. I couldn't afford the luxury of making "mistakes" because I knew nobody would care enough to help me if I did. Consequently, I have been "street smart" in way my husband could never be (when young) -- he was loved by his family.
As queer as this may sound, this one odd "facet" of who I am -- saved my husband from making a fatal error in business which would have ruined our entire lives. This occurred early in our marrige when a "friend" of his from university offered him a chance to invest in the "deal of lifetime".
I won't go into details -- but my husband, brilliant as he was at the time in his field, almost got taken to the cleaners. Except for the fact that his "other half" could spot a con a mile away. I couldn't afford to make mistakes -- so I learned not to. And over the years, he learned this skill from me.
Marrige is (or should be) a partnership. I was more than a "housekeeper" in the sense of keeping things tidy. I kept "house" in the sense that my skill set and knowledge base plugged whatever "gaps" he lacked (and vice versa).
For your own sake, i hope you have an epiphany before you decide to wed. A wife is not equivalent to a pet dog that you keep and feed. She will have a brain and thoughts of her own. And if you are very, very lucky -- if the chips are ever down and your back is up against the wall-- she will be by your side (metphorical sword in hand) charging into battle saying like Valeria ---"hey, do you wanna live forever?"
Exactly how did I fuck up society? I got my degree and I got married. All of my college female friends married guys they met in college and had children. Those children grew up and also went to college.
If you have a problem -- did you ever think it's something you are doing that hasn't made things work out the way you want?
Perhaps you don't realize there's an art to getting a man to make a commitment. Take your mom or your grandmother out to lunch and ask them how it's done. And listen to what they have to say -- you won't like the advice -- but it's foolproof and you'll be able to get rid of the cat.