You’d Be Much Happier at Home: Feminism Goes Off the Rails
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Actually, Fox dampens everything. It's not that they "over" exaggerate (your English teacher would be ashamed, or needs to be slapped).
Fox is actually a very liberal media outlet that is cleverly disguised as a conservative news source. They do this by giving conservative individuals and pundits the ability to voice opinions, but they don't actually follow on with hard facts. Even Hannity is somewhat guilty of this. It's partially why I lost interest in his radio program a few years ago. He says many of the right things, but he doesn't know how to nail someone to the wall or dances around certain subjects where the data clearly support the conservative position if he'd simply press for it.
This is what Fox news does all the time. It's designed to make conservatives feel as though there is a network that has not been over-run with progressives, but rarely reports investigative facts. It's there to keep the argument alive, but it serves the progressive agenda by simply placating the conservatives.
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I don't think it's accurate to say that the work place will always be a "man's world" - but I do think it is accurate to say that there is a lot of pressure on women to become career seekers like men and that they are somehow weak for having any kind of incline toward being a 'house wife' (at least while the kids are still at home).
The fact of the matter is that while men are often at the peak of their career aggressiveness, women are racing the biological clock of menopause. If women want to have kids and make sure the species doesn't, you know, go extinct, then they can't logically pursue a career the same way a man does.
Well... not and still have a human species. Which some of the liberal feminists out there probably would consider that a bonus. "Women act exactly like men AND we make humans go extinct! That's ****ing brilliant! Let's get Green Peace on board with this!"
I think it would be intellectually honest to suggest that women are biologically structured to try to 'race' this 'count-down to infertility' and that sociological pressures to 'not be a meek house wife' generate a fair amount of stress.
Compound that with many of the current display of men, and it's no wonder many of them are unhappy. I mean - would YOU want to live with half of the 'men' in our society? Everyone has standards, and the standards are still considerably above the average display.
Then don't work and start a family. This is why women are irrational, if I was a woman and I had the choice between waking up working 9-5 or taking care of my kids and having fun with them while getting paid by my husband. I'd be all for it, especially in this day and age where you can suck alimony and child support payments from a man to support you financially(even when women don't need men, they need men). Men don't have the opportunity of creating passive incomes through divorce. Even if it's immoral don't blame the women, blame the system who designed it this way. However if women do think rationally(which would be an accomplishment on its own) and decide being a housewife gives you more perks than being a corporate slave then they would have to admit that they are not equal to men, for that reason the only ones responsible for getting rid of feminisms corrupt ideology are women themselves. How fragile do your ego have to be for you to put up with a lifetime of struggle just so you don't have to admit that someone is better than you at something?
*shrug*
I've been camping enough to not give a rat's ass about who is doing the job, so long as it is getting done.
That's my take on it.
That said - there is one truth in that I can't bear a child, and I'm not aware of any other man who can. Scientists everywhere would be extremely interested in the exception to that case.
It makes sense for the one who is belabored with a child in gestation to be allowed to take the less intense and risky jobs while those who are not do. It also makes sense from a survivalist standpoint for those who can only reproduce once every year be allowed to take the less risky jobs while those who can reproduce once a day (or more, though human males generally hit peak capacity at 3 days and anything delivered more frequently is 'underpowered') are allowed to be thrown into the meat grinder. One can sire the next generation of a small town, if necessary.
Therefor - risk males to attrition and safeguard females.
That doesn't mean women -can't- do risky things... it just means that we've got millions of years behind our blood where doing that was not very conducive to the survival of our species. In terms of physique, women are actually stronger pound-for-pound than most men and their naturally greater flexibility can be a critical advantage in combat or in physically demanding tasks. Generally speaking, I've never known many women who have pursued academia to be lacking in wit; though wit in the board room and wit under fire are not necessarily the same thing. Though there are some very clever and inspiring female warriors throughout history (and fantasy).
Basically - men exist to take on the high risk aspects of life and the environment selected heavily for those who were most adapted to survive those riskier aspects. We're there to walk down the narrow path along a sheer cliff, fall off it, and then survive it to be pissed enough to think up a railing system and build it.
Just because we're meat shields doesn't mean we aren't in this life to stay alive.
You said it yourself, women can't and won't take the same risks as men which means they will only work when risks are minimal, it's only during the last century that they are capable of entering the work force but by no means does it imply they are equal to men. This is why I said the workplace will always be a man's world. Women won't go the extra mile like man would. For that reason men are actually more important in that regard because without us we would still be in nature wondering when the next lion attack will be. It's common for men to think they are disposable, only because we expose ourselves to more risk. However in terms of progress women have been essentially useless since the dawn of time, you're speaking in terms of society, I'm speaking in terms of the individual because none of us are responsible for society as a whole. Of course, I don't mind either who does the work aslong as it gets done.
I didn't say that women -can't- take on the risks, or that they -won't- take on the risks.
I said that women have developed to avoid risks - I would argue that this is especially true when a man is present.
That said - history is full of valiant female figures. At least in Greek culture, the Goddess of knowledge was also the goddess of war.
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"Boudicca was a Queen of the people of Norfolk who lead an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Her husband had left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor when he died, but the Romans did not acknowledge the joint rule – they simply took full control. It was reported that Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. She was eventually chosen as the leader of her people and their neighbors to lead an assault on the Romans. Her army had great success in their battles – and in fact completely demolished the city of Camulodunum (Colchester). Tacitus said that the Britons had no desire to take prisoners – they simply slaughtered everyone in their path. Dio said that the noble Roman women were beheaded and had their breasts cut off and sewn to their mouths. Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel is now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stands guard over the city she razed to the ground."
Now THAT is my kind of woman.
"Artemisia I of Caria became the ruler of Ionia as a client of the Persians. She is best remembered for her participation in the Battle of Salamis (image above). She alone counseled the King of Persia (Xerxes) not to meet the Greeks at sea and do battle. Nevertheless he did not heed her advice and she participated in the battle in September 480 BC as the commander of five ships. At one point in the battle the Greeks were close to capturing her trireme when she devised a cunning plan to escape. She had her own ship bear down on another Persian ship causing the Greeks to think that she was fighting on their side. When she sank the ship the Greeks left her alone. Xerxes watching from a nearby hill also assumed that she had defeated an enemy ship and praised her for her bravery. Xerxes was so full of praise for her that he said: “My men have turned into women and my women into men!”. Artemisia tried to convince Xerxes to retreat to Asia Minor against the advice of his other generals. Ultimately the Persians suffered a great defeat."
That kind of woman is too dangerous not to be attracted to.
Then there is the Queen of Kings: Tamar of Georgia;
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"In 1193 the Sultan Abu Bakr, ruler of a Persian kingdom in Azerbaijan, started launching annoying raids into Georgian territory, so Queen Tamar responded by putting together a massive force of heavily-armored medieval knights and trampling their balls into hoof-imprinted dust. At the Battle of Shamkhor in 1195, a thunderous charge led by King David Soslan plunged its throbbing lance into the soft parts of the quivering Azerbaijani army. The Georgians shattered the massed might of Abu Bakr, capturing dozens of Muslim battle flags and hanging them up as trophies in monasteries and cathedrals across Georgia. Abu Bakr himself survived and escaped, but drank himself to death shortly after hearing news that King David Soslan was marching his direction and there weren’t nearly enough troops to stop him."
YES!!!
A woman who understands the proper response to Islam!
"Meanwhile, for her part, Queen Tamar spent most of her non-killing time doing charitable work for her people – she embroidered clothing for the poor, distributed alms to the poor and to veterans during times of war, and observed religious principles of fasting, sleeping on a stone bed (to stay hard as ****), and walking up church steps barefoot as a form of penance."
Can this woman get any better?
"... the Sultan of Rum put together a huge army, assembled it on the border of Georgia, and then hired a diplomatic envoy to go to Tblisi and talk shit to Queen Tamar to her face in her own throne room. The guy read some ****ed-up over-the-top letter describing how “every woman is feeble-minded,” and how Queen Tamar was “a simpleton queen” and “a killer of taxer of Muslims,” and then gave her two options – convert to Islam and become his wife, or stay Christian and become his concubine.
When the envoy was done talking, one of the Mkhargrdzeli brothers literally stormed across the room and punched the dude in the face as hard as he could. As the guy was sprawled on the floor with a bloody lip, Mkhargrdzeli stood over the guy and said if it wasn’t for diplomatic immunity, the Georgians would cut out his tongue and blind him with red-hot pokers. Instead they were just going to send him home with a simple answer for the Sultan of Rum – prepare to die a horrific, excruciating death.
At the Battle of Basiani in 1205 (why couldn’t it have been the Battle of Bacardi?), Queen Tamar launched a ferocious surprise attack that caught the Sultan of Rum completely off-guard. The Muslim coalition was badass as **** though, and despite being ambushed they fought hard, countered the attack, and started to push Queen Tamar back. The Georgian knights fell back towards a bog, battling in knee-deep mud so intense most knights had to dismount their horses. Then, suddenly, two separate units of Georgian knights came riding in hard out of nowhere, attacked the Muslim flanks, routed their armies, and sent them fleeing in disarray. The Georgians marched ahead, conquering all that was before them, reaching all the way to the Black Sea and driving the Sultan back to wherever he came from."
When the envoy was done talking, one of the Mkhargrdzeli brothers literally stormed across the room and punched the dude in the face as hard as he could. As the guy was sprawled on the floor with a bloody lip, Mkhargrdzeli stood over the guy and said if it wasn’t for diplomatic immunity, the Georgians would cut out his tongue and blind him with red-hot pokers. Instead they were just going to send him home with a simple answer for the Sultan of Rum – prepare to die a horrific, excruciating death.
At the Battle of Basiani in 1205 (why couldn’t it have been the Battle of Bacardi?), Queen Tamar launched a ferocious surprise attack that caught the Sultan of Rum completely off-guard. The Muslim coalition was badass as **** though, and despite being ambushed they fought hard, countered the attack, and started to push Queen Tamar back. The Georgian knights fell back towards a bog, battling in knee-deep mud so intense most knights had to dismount their horses. Then, suddenly, two separate units of Georgian knights came riding in hard out of nowhere, attacked the Muslim flanks, routed their armies, and sent them fleeing in disarray. The Georgians marched ahead, conquering all that was before them, reaching all the way to the Black Sea and driving the Sultan back to wherever he came from."
Oh my God, she can!
Funny how little times have changed, too...