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Motherhood Only Feels Like A ‘Penalty’ When Women Succumb To Feminism

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Raising children didn’t become controversial until feminism convinced women that the best life mimicked men and prioritized work over family.

There’s a quirky couple’s ritual that happens daily all over America. A wife will excitedly tell her husband how much she saved on an item she just bought. “It was half off!” she says with deep, satisfied pride. The response, often offered with a raised eyebrow, “But how much was it?” His follow-up, sometimes said out loud is, “Wouldn’t we have saved more money if you hadn’t bought it?” But for the wife, the big thing was the discount. It is girl math.

This isn’t the only girl math to which we’ve become accustomed in the U.S. Most women in America live with some form of the odd calculus sold to us by feminism. We believe, unwittingly, that we can do everything we want, all at once, without any trade-offs or negative consequences. We can have it all! Eventually, however, in one way or another, the pain of this girl math hits home. Sooner or later, women realize that we can’t have it all.

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Mothers should be praised! If feminists don’t like it, they need to do some reflection.
 
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I loved being a mother to my son. Can't imagine wanting to do anything else. Men should step back from being workaholics too and enjoy family life.
 
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I read about this phenomenon all the time; YouTube is chock-full of videos about it. Basically, it boils down to the fact that young women are fed the feminist screed that being a wife and mother is degrading, and that they must compete with men on equal terms in the business world, because to do otherwise is to set themselves up for indentured servitude.

Which many, if not most, of them do. Men show an interest in women, maybe hoping to establish a home and a family, and women rebuff them, putting off such things "until their careers are established". Right up until the time reach about the age of thirty. After that, the ticking of the biological clock becomes louder every year, and suddenly they look around and realize that all of the men who were so available ten to fifteen years before are either married to non-career women, or have been broken by the toxic Western relationship culture, and have given up---dropped out of even trying to find a life companion, and have chosen to remain single for life.

A good many of these women, having realized that they've "hit the wall", with regards to attractive qualities, end up sitting in their cars outside singles clubs, posting TikTok videos in which they sob that they can't find any men who are interested in them. The guys that they rejected years before didn't wait for them---they moved on; and the ones who might still be available to them want nothing to do with them. It turns out that men are not attracted to hard, pushy businesswomen who have spent so many years bulling their way through office committee meetings that they have become, for all intents and purposes, men with breasts.

So, the men go fishing with their buddies, or play video games, or build birdhouses in their garages, and walk on the opposite side of the street or take the stairs instead of walking close to, or riding in an elevator with, a woman and thus avoid proximity to a potentially dangerous female who might view them as a "predator" or a "creep". And the women sit in their empty luxury apartments, drinking mint tea and crying from loneliness as they pet their cats---no husband, no children, no possibility of grandchildren, and nothing stretching ahead for the rest of their lives but sterile solitude and company awards for "Saleswoman of the Quarter".

And it's all due to feminism. Gloria Steinem and her harpy compatriots sold a worthless bill of goods to at least three generations of young American women, who bought it wholeheartedly, but now, in their 40s, realize that what they got in exchange is essentially worthless. The women are not happy, the men are not happy, and it may take centuries for the pendulum to swing back towards sane gender roles. And in the meantime, half or more of all new marriages implode, men withdraw from a societal structure that they get no benefit out of being involved in, and birthrates continue to plummet, world-wide. We are seeing the destruction of the nuclear family right before our eyes---and no civilization in human history has survived once the family unit, the basic foundation stone of any civilization, has been destroyed. It's sad.
 
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I read about this phenomenon all the time; {snip} ,ugh - we'll get to body of this later....


It's sad.

Hey, Wols:


Found this on your profile pic-

From By the shores of Gitchee-Goomee

Are you an UP-er ?, Northwest Wisconsinite ? North Shore of Minnesota ? Canuck ?

(it's a big lake)

Just wonderin' if you're from my neck of the woods.

Me ?

I live where the Northern breeze blows free in the trees and the sky blue waters shine.




















 
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Hey, Wols:

Found this on your profile pic-

From By the shores of Gitchee-Goomee

Are you an UP-er ?, Northwest Wisconsinite ? North Shore of Minnesota ? Canuck ?


:) I live in the west-central part of the Lower Peninsula, about 18 miles east of the Lake Michigan beach. I'm in the "transition zone", where large farms fade off and are replaced by large orchards, and eventually, woods, the further north you go. My township only has a total population of about 3,000 souls---the rest is taken up by Federal land consisting of the Manistee National Forest, Michigan state land, and unclassified boondocks. ;)

"Gitchee-Goomee" usually refers to Lake Superior, but it can easily be applied to Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, or Ontario. "Meeshee-gama", after all, is simply the Ojibwa word for "big water". ("Meeshee-zeebee", BTW, is Ojibwa for "big river", which is how the river and the state down south got their name. ;) )

(it's a big lake)


It is. They're all big lakes, to be honest. :)

Just wonderin' if you're from my neck of the woods.

Me ?

I live where the Northern breeze blows free in the trees and the sky blue waters shine.


"Sky blue waters" as in Hamm's, the beer refreshing? ;) That would be St. Paul, Minnesota, which is a ways from Gitchee-Goomee---but is right smack-dab in the middle of Minnesota's 11,842 lakes. :)

I am old enough to remember TV commercials featuring this guy---and the jingle. "From the land of sky blue waters", LOL.


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I was able to be at home for 13 years with our children, after I married in the early '90's. I don't regret it at all.
I read a book by a religious conservative who theorized that 2nd wave or radical feminism came into being as a backlash against the
playboy (Hugh Hefner) movement of the early '60's and the no-fault divorce movement of the late '60's. I have no proof of that but it makes sense to me.
It seems that cultural and politics during my life- time are reactions to the pendulum swinging one way and it's (over)reaction the other way.
Motherhood is a vocation and children need their married mother and father. Yes, there are always children who are exceptions who have succeeded(Dr Ben Carson is one example) but the decline of our culture is IMO the result of the devaluation of traditional marriage and having children. And now see what we've got. We've have things going on that were sadly predicted (including by the RCC).
 
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BTW if you're on X there is a fertility clinic advocating for all children to be conceived via in-vitro so that defects can be screened out(Hitler's new man here we come)
And there is an article somewhere I will soon find that states that the Chinese are working on artificial wombs for infertile couples or even those who don't want to carry a child.
Brave New World, here we come!!China tech CEO reveals plans for humanoid 'pregnancy robot'
 
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BTW if you're on X there is a fertility clinic advocating for all children to be conceived via in-vitro so that defects can be screened out(Hitler's new man here we come)
And there is an article somewhere I will soon find that states that the Chinese are working on artificial wombs for infertile couples or even those who don't want to carry a child.
Brave New World, here we come!!China tech CEO reveals plans for humanoid 'pregnancy robot'
Hey if you have a career you don't even have to carry the child anymore!! In fact lets just abolish parenthood and let the state raise them!!
 
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:) I live in the west-central part of the Lower Peninsula, about 18 miles east of the Lake Michigan beach. I'm in the "transition zone", where large farms fade off and are replaced by large orchards, and eventually, woods, the further north you go. My township only has a total population of about 3,000 souls---the rest is taken up by Federal land consisting of the Manistee National Forest, Michigan state land, and unclassified boondocks. ;)

"Gitchee-Goomee" usually refers to Lake Superior, but it can easily be applied to Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, or Ontario. "Meeshee-gama", after all, is simply the Ojibwa word for "big water". ("Meeshee-zeebee", BTW, is Ojibwa for "big river", which is how the river and the state down south got their name. ;) )


It is. They're all big lakes, to be honest. :)


"Sky blue waters" as in Hamm's, the beer refreshing? ;) That would be St. Paul, Minnesota, which is a ways from Gitchee-Goomee---but is right smack-dab in the middle of Minnesota's 11,842 lakes. :)

I am old enough to remember TV commercials featuring this guy---and the jingle. "From the land of sky blue waters", LOL.


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I still drink the stuff.

Off tap.

In several of your finer (and lessor) establishments. One of my sons won't drink anything else.

Of course, now it brewed in Milwaukee and Texas by Molson.

If it was good enough for my one Grandfather I was granted, it's good enough for me.
 
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I still drink the stuff.

Off tap.

In several of your finer (and lessor) establishments. One of my sons won't drink anything else.

Of course, now it brewed in Milwaukee and Texas by Molson.

If it was good enough for my one Grandfather I was granted, it's good enough for me.
:) I'm not much of a drinker, TBH. I enjoy a cold glass of wine at holidays, and if I'm hot and sweaty, I enjoy a cold beer, but they don't sell the two labels that I really used to like around here any more---Budweiser Select, and Budweiser Platinum. (And what with the Dylan Mulvaney debacle, I'm unlikely to buy anything Budweiser any more, so I guess I'm out of luck even if I cold get it.)

I remember when they sold Hamm's here, too, but that was long ago. Back in the days when I still had plenty of alcoholics in my family, I recall them drinking Blatz, Stroh's, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Rheingold, Miller High Life, Carling Black Label, Falstaff, Schaefer, Schlitz, Busch, and Old Milwaukee; but again, that was long ago. :) (And it was what I observed from said alcoholics as a child that I determined to never be one myself. ;) ) Some of those, of course, are still around, but what you find these days are a lot of craft beers and IPAs, most of which (to me) taste like dishwater.

And as for hard liquor, I refuse to touch the stuff. Never liked it.
 
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