Goldberg: The “war on women” is over, and women won
by Kelli
To listen to pretty much anyone in the Democratic Party these days, you’d think these are dark days for women. But by any objective measure, things have been going great for women for a long time, under Republicans and Democrats alike.
Women earn 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 63% of master’s degrees and 53% of doctorates. They constitute the majority of the U.S. workforce and the majority of managers. Single women without kids earn 8% more than single men without children in most cities. Women make up almost half of medical school applicants and nearly 80% of veterinary school enrollees.
The recession — a.k.a. the “mancession” — hit men much harder, and women recovered from it much more quickly. When you account for hours worked and job choices, pay equity is pretty much here already….
Going by the endless stream of fundraising emails I get from the Democratic Party, Emily’s List - never mind New York Times editorials – and other usual suspects, we’re always one election away from losing it all. If Harry Reid isn’t the majority leader next year, it’s back to wearing corsets and churning butter for you.
Obviously, this isn’t all about elections. There’s a vast feminist industrial complex that is addicted to institutionalized panic. On college campuses, feminist and gender studies departments depend almost entirely on a constant drumbeat of crisis-mongering to keep their increasingly irrelevant courses alive. Abortion rights groups now use “women’s health” and “access to abortion on demand” as if they are synonymous terms. The lack of a subsidy for birth control pills is tantamount to a federal forced breeding program.
Sure, women still face challenges. But the system feminists have constructed cannot long survive an outbreak of confidence in the permanence of women’s progress. The last thing the generals need is for the troops to find out that the “war on women” ended a long time ago — and the women won.
~ Jonah Goldberg, Townhall.com, September 24
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Well as much as I hate to admit it as far as keeping abortion legal…they are winning. I was 3 years old when abortion was legalized. I am 45 today. Although when you think of all of the dead children and wounded women its really just a lose lose situation.
Abortion clinics are closing and many abortionists are aging. Ruddock Carhart Hern…I believe these guys are all going into their 70s. IK Ruddock is. Sure they will train new. However abortion clinics like PP are like roaches. You get rid of one and another pops up. With the death of Polly Bergen Im sure plenty of the elite mailed donations per her request after death. Who knows perhaps they will build another clinic and call it The Polly Bergen abortion clinic.
Also if killing your children is what you have to do to get ahead…fugetabbatit! I went to nursing school while I was still a virgin and living at home with my dad (parents divorced) but mom was still one suburb away. I did go back to the college after becoming the moother of 2 but it wasnt the same. The kids had to come first. I was able to take a few classes but my heart wasnt in it. Some urged me to go to med school but youre talking at least 8 years plus. Anyway once when I was working in a nursing home a female doc came in to make rounds. We had some down time ..(myself and a couple of the other nurses)..so the doctor began to tell us a story about a promising med student. She was such a pretty doctor with a slight accent. She said this student was bright good to the patients and made straight As. She explained “Nobody know what happen but he kill himself.” They found him dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning. Looks like school isnt the key to happiness.
Ok one last story. My mom lived in Bradenton Fla. for 15 years. She ended up moving back to TN…her birth place and Im sad to say she has dementia. On a side note those of you who will please pray for my mom. Shes in a nursing home and I want to bring her back to Ohio. Anyway mom had a friend named Liz. They met in Ohio and stayed friends. Liz is a wonderful Christian woman who saw a female doctor. Liz is so loving and easy to talk to but she walks the walk. Anyway the lady doctor had had an an abortion and every time Liz went to see her she would bring it up. Shed tell Liz her live in bf was abusive and made her have the abortion. Sounds like another wounded woman. Imo her wanting to talk about the abortion every time she saw Liz was a sign to me that she wasnt happy about it. As many of us say….can your degree hug you or comfort you when youre sad? It cant. Hopibg this doctor who heals others finds her own healing.
Never was a ‘war on women’. Alway was a War on Babies!
Has anyone ever asked Henry Kessinger about his views, as he reaches the end of his long life, about all the babies aborted due to the influence of the Kessinger Report? Or does he not believe in the Last Judgment? While one is breathing there is Still has time to make things right with God!
“War on Women” was never more than a brilliant election-year distraction by the Obama campaign.
Nobody remembers the real issues of the 2012 campaign (Benghazi, fears of Obamacare, the persistent failure of the roll-out, the economy that refused to recover, the jobs that never appeared because employers were afraid of Obamacare, the TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS…).
But everybody remembers how we were told that Republicans wanted to take away contraception.
You can always rile up an addict by threatening to take away her fix. And our culture is addicted to contraception. Sadly, this is why the “War on Women” scheme will work again.
The only war on women are the baby women being suctioned out of their mothers wombs!
The War on Women started when we allowed ourselves to be suckered into believing sex should involve no responsibility and that killing our children was in our best interest.
The War will end when we deprogram our gender and choose to hold ourselves and the men in our lives accountable.
The hand that rocks the cradle. . .
Who are the protectors of and providers for women and children if all the women who want to be out of the house and into the workforce are out in the workforce working? Why do women want to be out of the house and into the workforce when they have children, anyway? Who is the Head of the Household, and who is the Heart of the Household when there’s no one there to be the heart and she’s out making money? Can any man be an adequate substitute for the mother when the mother will always have at least a nine month head start on knowing the child? Don’t children need for their fathers to be out working and for their mothers to be about learning about each child’s differences, and how best to raise that child? How can that be done if mother is out working, too? How can a mother and father learn about their children if both of them are working? Can a culture truly be a culture when so many mothers are in the workforce? What good is a house if it’s not a home? Are children just supposed to be growing into little economic units, learning to earn and never learning to learn? From whom will the life lessons children need come from if mothers and fathers abdicate their proper roles, or try to make their roles interchangeable?
Um, I know several homes where the dad stays home with the kids and mom works. They are beautiful, loving families and the children are being raised by a loving parent. It works.
I also know many more families where dad and mom both work and they have their children cared for by loving moms in home daycare situations. The daycare family becomes an extended family to the children. The children are raised by loving parents and loving daycare providers that have become like family. It works.
“Proper roles”? I think family roles are far more flexible than you seem to think, DocKimble.
Role models aren’t as interchangeable and malleable as you would imagine them to be, Lrning. If they were, then we would have about 50 different models for gender, which number the “imagineers” have nearly arrived at now. If one parent is the same as any other parent, and interchangeable, then why would anyone want to keep that arrangement intact? Our Social Engineers have given us “No Fault” divorce for a reason. And I submit the reason is people have come to think of role models as malleable and interchangeable.
The original model may not always be played out adequately, but the substitutes for the proper models come with a price. And it’s the children who are the most damaged and who pay the highest price for this re-engineering of the family.
We teach our children by what we do more than by what we say. Tell a child the family unit is very important, and then say, by your actions, that this isn’t so, and before long the children will no longer trust anything you say. They will look for other models to follow. These new models will be imagined to be better, because what they saw modeled were seen to be inadequate and self-contradictory. The original model may be what the child finally arrives at as the correct one, after very probably much trial, error, heartache and heartbreak.
Or not. The ones who do not find the happiness and fullness they deserve, which they constantly rejected because of so much confusion, will be paying a price which will have to be absorbed by themselves or others. The traditional family used to be where these lessons were taught and learned, and the errors from not following these life lessons absorbed (“The Prodigal Son”), but without that to return to, our culture will “end up somewhere else.”
“Why do women want to be out of the house and into the workforce when they have children, anyway?”
Because we started putting money and sex (i.e. ourselves) before everything else — to the point of killing our own children.
Why do women want to be out of the house and into the workforce when they have children, anyway?
For the same reasons men do.
“For the same reasons men do.”
What are those reasons?
What is the “proper model” for a father and mother then, DocKimble? Does your “proper model” account for different cultures and countries, or are you only thinking middle class America?
A family doesn’t have to be your version of traditional to be where children are taught and learn the lessons of life. I never said the parenting roles are interchangeable. And there’s a HUGE difference between a family organizing themselves and functioning in a way you consider non-traditional to 50 different gender models. If a daughter primarily learns self-esteem, self-image, and confidence from her father, then she will learn that from him whether he works out of the home full time or stays home. I know quite a few dads that are fortunate enough to work full-time in their very own home. And my farmer cousins work on their own property all day, surrounded by their family, interacting at various times throughout the day, and each family member has their farm responsibilities, mom included. Heck, didn’t that used to be the traditional model?
I think mom and dad contribute different things to their children and that it’s possible for those contributions to be made even if the family doesn’t follow your traditional model. And I see it happening all around me; well-functioning, loving, two-parent families that provide for and raise their children with mom and dad following roles you apparently wouldn’t consider traditional.
I believe mothers will always have a more comprehensive picture of the child’s needs of her children than will the father of their children. For one thing, the mother will always have a nine month head start on being aware of that child’s life because that life is within her.
The link between a mother and child is profound, and new research suggests a physical connection even deeper than anyone thought. The profound psychological and physical bonds shared by the mother and her child begin during gestation when the mother is everything for the developing fetus, supplying warmth and sustenance, while her heartbeat provides a soothing constant rhythm.
The physical connection between mother and fetus is provided by the placenta, an organ, built of cells from both the mother and fetus, which serves as a conduit for the exchange of nutrients, gasses, and wastes. Cells may migrate through the placenta between the mother and the fetus, taking up residence in many organs of the body including the lung, thyroid muscle, liver, heart, kidney and skin. These may have a broad range of impacts, from tissue repair and cancer prevention to sparking immune disorders.
It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person. We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals. As remarkable as this may be, stunning results from a new study show that cells from other individuals are also found in the brain. In this study, male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades. What impact they may have had is now only a guess, but this study revealed that these cells were less common in the brains of women who had Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting they may be related to the health of the brain.
Women may want to go out into the workplace for the same reasons that men do, but women will carry their children with them into the workplace in ways that are impossible for the father of their children to do.
Then there is the whole issue of nursing. . .
Ive lived on both sides of the tracks and I enjoy being a nurse but I had 3 years as a stay at home mom. I was 21 and 22 when I had my first 2 kids. Took maternity leave and went back. I was younger but then the poor kids get shuffled off to daycare. With my second daughter my ex and I reversed roles. He was an average bf but he was just an excellent father! So I called him Mr mom. After my marriage and second son was born I got to stay home. It was so nice to bond with my son. My mom always said “Womens lib has ruined a lot of good women and men.” Well look at the ruins. Look at how many dead babies. Women act like men. They contracept their children out of existance. Look at all of the single mothers and fathers. Broken homes and child abuse. Raising a child on your own is NOT easy or ideal. The kids suffer. But hey get with the times. Who gets married anymore? Then women become so overwhelmed they abuse or neglect their kids or kill them. Not every person is able to stay patient. Every time I turn on the news there is a missing child. Sad to say many end up dead at the hands of parents because of stress. Getting pregnant too young can present a lot of problems. I used to work with a woman who had a daughter get pregnant at 12. The baby is now 2 and the now 14 year old wants to party. Well of course she does. This woman is raising the baby for the most part. Its just too bad we cant go back to old fashioned values and tell young girls to get married first. Tell girls that todayvand they will lol at you.
Idk I had super mom. She had me at 40 but she looked like Lana turner. She cooked baked ran her own business out of our home (hairdresser) and had the energy of a 20 year old. Eh sorry above post Lana Turner. She was an excellent mom and very kind. Mom would always remark about abuse of children “The poor soul didnt ask to be born.” And she just adored her grandchildren. Spoiled them rotten when shed come to town. She loved doing hair so she worked into her 80s doing hair. She also kept our house spotless. She has dementia now. It makes me feel just awful. Mom was always so sharp. I am in prayer that the Lord will let mom come back to Ohio with me. She was put into a nursing home in TN. My mom took care of me and now I want to take care of her before she dies.
Got off the track a little. But my mom owned 2 businesses also. She was a mover and a shaker. Here is the deal. If women want to work thats fine as long as you dont kill your children to earn a degree. Like my post abortive gf who aborted around 96 to finish nursing school. She wasnt even using a condom and I warned her “Youre gonna get pregnant.” A month later she was and said “Im just gonna have an abortion.” Just like “Im gonna go get my hair cut.” Of course bing pregnant would get in the way of school. Shed already had 4 kids so perhaps she should have considered a tubal ligation. But after school she had one more baby and had her tubes tied. When she became a grandmother she called me to tell me her 16 year old daughter was pregnant. She added “Were keeping.” We are talking about a baby here. Not a stray dog. Oh well. She has other good qualities but she just has never seen the wrong in her abortion. I pray one day she will. Like 9Ek said…as long as you are breathing there is hope.
I agree with Prax.
Weve been killing our children to get ahead. Imagine if your husband was standing in your way of your college dream. Would we murder him as well?
If you broke it down to men like this, it’s not likely you’d get many men to agree to the arrangement:
“Let’s have sex and I’ll kill as many of our children as we conceive as I want so I can go out into the workplace and replace you on your job. You won’t even have to know about the abortions. When I’m ready to start a family, I’ll decide how many children we’ll have and when I decide we’ve got the right number of children, I’ll get my tubes tied. You stay home with the kids, and I’ll be the breadwinner.”
What could possibly go wrong?
So the women lose their femininity and men lose their masculinity. Well played. Well and truly played. No wonder people are re-imagining sex and gender roles to be “LGBTQXYZ…..”
Praying your mom may be able to come live with you, heather!
LOL Doc. I usually say “LGBTQRNT…..”
Hi Prax ty…btw whenn you catch me again please tell me what that means.