GOP Policy Toward Women About Driving Women Back Into The Kitchen.

[TheMastersNemesis]

If you look at everything GOPPERS do to women it really is about forcing them back into the home. Removing birth control, unequal pay, fighting equal rights, cutting public services, pushing marriage and finding a man and all the other rhetoric that goes unchallenged with regards to women and their alliance with radical religions makes it harder for a women to work and support a family if they are single.

The underground campaign the implies that women should be in jobs that supplement the family income. The suppression of the idea that women should have careers. The criticism of women of choose not to have children and the glorification of having and raising children as the BE ALL and END ALL of existence are all part of a larger scheme.

We see very little in the media about women having careers like in the 1960's. Even successful women are praised for their families and their careers successes are addendum's to "family" matter.

At the same time employers push against women who have families and punish them for taking time off work. And women are discriminated against if they are pregnant. At the same time they become 2nd class citizens when they do start a family.

[madokie]

1. Spot on

[DebJ]

2. Enslavement in general is the goal. Women are over 50% of the population. n/t

[Faux pas]

3. Kickin'

[theboss]

4. We are schizophrenic as a nation on this subject

Whatever wave of feminism we are on seems to be encapsulated by the idea that "womenhood" does include motherhood and families (though the idea of families has certainly evolved) as well as jobs, charity, personal life, etc.

I see plenty of stories on women "having it all" but the all almost always includes children and a husband (or wife in some cases). I was screwing around on youtube for an hour in the airport and stumbled on an interview with Bruce Springsteen's wife, Patti Scialfa. The interview began with a story of how she was onstage with Bruce and it dawned on her that one of the children missed a piano lesson that day. The chances that anecdote comes up with an interview with Bruce himself are 0%.

I have an Ivy League degree. What has been totally unexpected as I hit 40 is the number of my female classmates (some with advanced degrees) who have dropped out of the workforce to become stay at home moms. I can think of ten women who have done that off the top of my head - two of home have law degrees from Harvard or Yale.

The message has become very muddled where the depictions of feminism in the media are Gwyneth Paltrow feminism where you can feed you children organic hemp seed butter on homemade artians bread made with hand ground oyster shell flour - all while earning $26 million per year.

There are a lot of mixed messages around feminism being sent right now.