Baby boycott?
The dying bleat of post-modern American Feminism is at hand. It would appear that Stephanie Mencimer believes that men want children. She also believes that civilization is well-served by taking young women in their biological prime, sending them through four or five years of mindless drivel, and then having them pursue meaningless careers.
Right. What’s the life expectancy now? 80 years? Yet somehow, these feminist shrews think that a woman without an established career by 30 is somehow a failure?
With all the advances modern medicine has brought, the oldest a woman can consider having a low-risk pregnancy has not moved, at least not very much. My mom was 32 when my youngest brother was born. A friend’s wife had her first child at 38, and it was watched closely (everyone is fine, in case you happen to care). So, for women to think that they can delay attracting and securing a worthwhile mate until they are 30 years old, and then manage to get married and have kids before nature tells them “time’s up”, is pure lunacy. Which is why so many women end up with abusive asshole ex-husbands who don’t pay child support.
So, biological reality gets in the way of Stephanie’s dream of all the women competing in the world of work with men. Her solution? Mandate that men do more housework, or women shut off the baby-tap. She is, of course, quite mad. The reason that women like Maureen Dowd are unmarried and childless at forty has nothing to do with men not wanting to do housework, and even less to do with men being intimidated by successful women. It has everything to do with man not willing to put up with the bullshit heaped upon them by self-centered, shrewish bitches with a chip on their shoulder and an axe to grind.
Men, being the resourceful creatures that we are, have come up with our own solution, which really frosts the feminists. There are women all over the world that are more than happy to raise children and keep house for a man that treats them well.
And there are a great many men who do not desire children at all, and don’t need someone to keep house for them. Clothing is cheap enough that it doesn’t need repair, just toss it when it gets torn. Professional cleaning is cheap enough that the executive that actually NEEDS pressed slacks and shirts doesn’t need to take up ironing. Between microwave ovens, inexpensive gas grills, and the mega-mart, all a man needs to eat well is a meat department and the many prepared meals available. Cooking, cleaning, and laundry are all short-term tasks now.
So you tell me - who’s on the losing end of gender strife here? It certainly ain’t men. Our attitude is “Who cares if civilization fizzles. It’s not like I have kids to leave a better world to.”
(h/t Vox Popoli)