"...though I may do an upgrade to something a bit more modern in the near future." Nooooooo!!!1! Lol! Okay, if you must, you must. Congratulations, Jason, on finding a host. It's so exciting watching us grow.
I doubt these people are the brand of Christians who would appreciate a St. Francis either.
I have quite a few female friends who are stay at home mothers and homemakers. Incidentally, they are all feminists. But when a person paints all feminists with the same brush (as this fellow is- mind you, he doesn't say "some feminists", and I really don't think that's what he is trying to say anyway) that person is doing an extreme injustice to all women. More importantly, I think it's doing an extreme injustice to the human intellect.
"McCollum should sue the state for employment discrimination under the federal Equal Employment act... and I comprehend that he has done that... yet that wasn't part of the 9th court ruling on standing, right? Is this suit still going forward?" He did have standing to sue for employment. The court ruled against him for employment discrimination.
Thank you, Patrick, for all you have done and continue to do for our community.
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My husband is the nurturer at home, not me. That role works well for him. I am enrolling in graduate school soon so I can get a better paying job because MY HUSBAND wants to stay home with the kid. That is HIS inherent instinct. He's rather cook breakfast than worry about the morning commute. That's what he wants and I take offense to those who try to tell him that that's unnatural and I get irritated when people try to tell me somehow I am less feminine for not allowing myself to be pushed into being a housewife who lives only for her children. Some women want that and I'm okay with that as long as they realize that doesn't work for me. It's a social norm but it has very little to do with biology. That's where feminism comes in. It's for those of us who don't want that. It's also for the men who aren't aggressive, who embrace a nurturing role, and don't care about being bread winners.
"'...but because it ignores the complimentary relationship between the sexes and encourages women to rebel against their inherent feminine instincts.' " I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but it sort of irritates me when people throw around phrases like "inherent feminine instincts". What are those? Apparently, I'm not inherently feminine, and by this thinking not really a woman, as I don't think this guy really understands the subtle difference between gender and biological sex. The reason feminism exists is not to create a war between the sexes but to question an attitude that assumes every woman's deepest need and natural urge is to embrace motherhood and a domestic role. I never had that urge. Ever. It took me years before I would even consider procreating. I did (but mostly because my husband wanted a child) and I love my son more than anything, just as many parents do regardless of sex (fathers love and protect their children too) but I am not particularly nurturing; and as for domestic life- well, I did that once and nearly went crazy (I'm not exaggerating; there were lots of bad episodes and a bit too much alcohol consumption).
I was thinking the exact same thing as I was reading this.
"The problem with ANY racially based identity is that it dramatically oversimplifies culture, and generally tries to go back to a place and time that is more fantasy then historical reality." Exactly.
This sort of rhetoric assumes there is some original culture, or original groups of people. When we talk about the old days and old ways, what old days and old ways are we talking about? The people of Earth have been changing, intermingling both their cultures and genetic material since they crept out of the primordial ooze- well, at least since we became bipedal at any rate. As for "return to our rivers", which one? We (most of us commenting here, anyway) live in the U.S. I need not really mention that most of us are of mixed heritage.
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