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That is the OP's argument. That women are inferior.
He can dodge around and say otherwise, but when you say that women need protection, you are saying they can't take care of themselves. Despite the overwhelming evidence, historical and contemporary, that women can take care of themselves.
When you say that women should be restricted in the professions available to them, you are saying that women can't perform in these professions. Somehow, having a womb makes a woman, what, unable to do math? Unable to wield a hammer? Unable to work in law enforcement?
The only limitation in the lives of the women around the OP is the OP himself.
I do not believe that all women are destined to be married. Many are called to be religious - nuns. And others are called to a life of virginity in the world. But yes, most women do have motherhood in their futures, and their career ambitions need to be ordered around this reality. That's not a false premise: it's empirical reality, as more than 80% of women do become mothers, and if they have motherhood in their futures they ought to have marriage in their futures.
Once upon a time, this used to be plain common sense. Young women are happier when they're at peace with their biology.
I thought it worth mentioning that it's 2012...just in case there is any confusion.....which there seems to be.
When we're talking about young children, I don't see what the harm is. When I was about eight years old, I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player. Well, by the time I was 13 or so, I knew that wasn't going to happen (I was slow and somewhat uncoordinated, among other things). Never made it past Little League. It didn't make me bitter about life that I didn't become a professional baseball player. There's something to be said for just letting kids be kids.
Technically it IS true that you "can" be whatever you want to be. So I would not call it a lie. It is more of an omission by failing to mention that just because you "can" does not mean you "will". Many of us fail.
That aside however the general message of know thyself is not a bad one. Too many people judge themselves by the standards and achievements of others. What I will be teaching my kids is going to be more along the lines of telling them that their goal in life should be to improve themselves each day. Whether their physical self - their education - their intellectual side - their moral side - and so on - their main goal should be simply to be sure they go to bed each day having improved themselves in some way on the person who got out of bed that morning - and that this is the standard - their own standard - by which they should judge themselves.
"For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household. Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living as a couple, or single, having never been married."
"For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household. Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living as a couple, or single, having never been married."
Nice try to distort what you previosuly posted. Fail.
"For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household. Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living as a couple, or single, having never been married."
You realize that the study retracted this conclusion when it turned out their statistical analysis had computational errors.
I thought it worth mentioning that it's 2012...just in case there is any confusion.....which there seems to be.
No confusion. 81 percent of women become mothers in 2012 (and I'm sure those stats don't include "childless" women who have had abortions). I think you need to get with the times.
I'm ready for it .... next, you're going to tell me that motherhood should place no limits on a woman's life or career aspirations.
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