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Things You Are Not Allowed To Say: Part XXXIX
by Christopher Chantrill
August 30, 2006 at 4:34 am
NEARLY SIXTY years ago, feminist Simone de Beauvoir bemoaned that the female was the victim of the species. What she wanted was to become a real human being, with a life of the mind, creating, reading, and writing.
Don’t, advises Michael Noer in Forbes, marry a woman like that.
Guys: a word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.
Of course, the usual suspects are mortally offended at that. How dare Noer say that, they say, echoing the manipulative power of women down the ages. So Forbes got up Elizabeth Corcoran to pen a riposte.
Girlfriends: a word of advice. Ask your man the following question: When was the last time you learned something useful, either at home or work?
Er, what does that have to do with the big question that is nagging in the back of every young man’s mind? And what might that be?
It’s pretty simple. In today’s world, as a result of the feminist revolution and the cultural power of liberals, women can and do dump men for any reason (and two thirds of divorces are initiated by women). That usually means that they waltz off with the house and the kids and the husband/father gets stuck with the child-support payments.
So the question that any sensible guy would ask himself is: how do I work the odds on this unfavorable situation.
The obvious thing is: don’t marry a woman like Simone de Beauvoir or her followers. Don’t come within a country mile of Elizabeth Corcoran. Don’t marry a woman who has things on her mind other than home and children. If you are the marrying kind.
This shouldn’t be so shocking, after all. Men and women are completely different and in normal intercourse don’t have too much to say to each other. So unless they are embarked upon a shared life project—making a family, for example—then the chances are that after the sexual attraction has worn off a bit then the desire to stay together will wear off a bit. And your average feminized career women will soon be saying: shape up or ship out.
That is easy to say, but as every wise woman knows, it is a life time project to get a man to shape up and make a contribution that comes close to hers.
But this is America, land of the free and the brave, quivering under the knout of the social liberals. There are just certain things you are not allowed to say.
You are not allowed to say that career women are a problem. Didn’t you know? It’s right there in the First Amendment.
Sphere: Related Content |Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
Comments:
Posted by: Marc on 09/01/06 3:49am
This is a crock of sh*t...I read your posts regularly and usually find them interesting and on the mark. Not so here. There are myriad examples of relationships in which both the man and woman have careers and they both work on the family _together_. Just because she has a greater biological imperative when it comes to bearing and raising kids does not mean a woman should live in a gilded cage. Humankind was not given wings by god or nature...yet we fly.
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Civil Society
“Civil Society”—a complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churches—builds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust
Hugo on Genius
“Tear down theory, poetic systems… No more rules, no more models… Genius conjures up
rather than learns… ” —Victor Hugo
César Graña, Bohemian versus Bourgeois
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Faith and Politics
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable...
[1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006
China and Christianity
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
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