Santorum said he’s heard from ‘many’ women who tell him that it’s ‘easier,’ more ‘professionally gratifying’ and ‘more socially affirming’ to work outside the home than it is to take care of their own children. “Think about that for a moment,” Santorum writes. “Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.”
So. What you are saying, Senator Santorum, is that older women like myself, involved at the modest beginnings of Women’s Lib, um, planted a concept in the minds of younger women (are ya with me so far?) that (perhaps a little chip, behind their ear?) now causes them to experience an “ease” and “personal gratification” … which they don’t really feel?
Golly. I command millions.
You flamin’ frigtard. Make no sense whatsoever, just throw blame at wall, see what sticks. You know what that accomplishes, don’t you. A witless accusation reveals the accuser to be … witless. Say, wait a minute. Could it be, Senator, that you are what we used to call Part Of The Problem, oink oink?
And, let’s see, being a mother at home gets no respect. Which would mean, some portion of society looks down upon or ignores the value of a contribution beyond measure. Whooo could that portion be?
Staying home, taking care of small children, can be monstrously difficult, draining, boring. Lord knows.
But what I’ve heard from women is, having a job frees them not from kids and home—it frees them from having to take a single ounce of crap from Mr. Breadwinner and Sole Controller. Who (it is to laugh) “shares” his earnings with the unspoken (or, under the tiniest duress, way spoken) expectation that, in return for this largesse, he will be flattered, pleased, and generally taken care of.
And on his terms, fuck mental, spiritual or psychological health. You do know what I mean. The god of Male Ego is an angry, Old Testament god, and I am here to say, sleep with him at your peril.
I was once married to a guy like that. Did I ever fail to make him “happy!” I realized later, hey! There’s a whole profession that could have pleased him all along! But, see, he wanted it to look voluntary; he wanted it to look like love.
link: salon politics
