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This is where my old school, Paleo-Conservative, Fundamental Baptist Self comes out…

Via The Corner on National Review Online

15 percent of recently returned female soldiers report a sexual trauma during service, compared to 0.7 percent of male soldiers, according to preliminary research results from a Department of Veteran Affairs study released at the American Public Health Association meeting in San Diego. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about this.

There’s a simple solution to this, and I just know someone is going to see this and is going to pop a vein when I say it. But, if these women would have stayed home and been wives to their husbands and Mothers to their Children, then they would not have never gotten raped in the first place. By no means do I justify the rapes, not at all. But the simple fact is that Women have fought for equal rights with men, led by that feminist Nazi Gloria Steinem. Now that they have these rights and one of them gets raped by a man who looses control, they want to be treated special, coddled and treated differently.

To HELL with that I say, if you cannot take the heat, stay the hell out of the Kitchen. The Military was originally designed for men, fighting men, to defend this country against our enemies. Women were not a part of the equation. That is because Women knew their place and it was not on the battlefield. But thanks to your stupid liberals, women are now a part of the Armed Forces and they’re getting raped.

….and they wonder why we had such a time winning in Iraq.

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Originally Posted at my Blog: Political Byline

While the article cant say why, many people may realize that when you get bad life advice, like the kind your family would not give you, but feminists are willing to, then your life may not turn out the way they dictate.

 

After all, all the assertions of feminism have been blind assertions looking for proof. Though as we move forward in biology, and other thigns, we are finding out that our parents and elders knew more intuitively about us than we know empirically in our daily lives.

 

That Prader Willi syndrome can be mitigated by father participation. That a female child living without her blood father has earlier onset of first menses (fathers let them live in a learning time longer). The list can be quite long, and will certainly explode as we find out more.

 

Well, just as men who are disenfranchised, tend to commit suicide because they are a net drain rather than a provider, why would it be so far from our ideas that women have similar mechanisms, though along her bailiwick, fertility.

 

Middle aged white women are the group that signed on the most to the feminist ideas of put off children (till infertility), put off marriage (till adaptability ossifies), claim abortion has no mental effect (except it does), and the list goes on.

 

Is it unreasonable to think that white middle aged women have reached the point of no return? That by kissing off good men, having fun without building a future till its too late, missing your biological clock, and finding out that the men aren’t interested any more (in contradiction to what all the magazines have been telling her), might be causing a problem that lack of religion, nihilism, hedonism, just doesn’t suffice to give meaning when your standing on the doc watching your “ships bearing your dreams, sail out of sight” to paraphrase Jackson brown.

 

The fact that new friends are made seldom, being warehoused in a clinic is a high thing for longer living women, no family to care, no family to call and keep in touch with, no companions…

 

Is it any wonder that this group might be dissatisfied with the new potential of their lives as it stares them in the face?

 

Where is the man to share my life? Where are the children, grandchildren, cousins and such to dote over? Where is the house and visitors to be with? The list can go on large given little inventiveness.

 

Pay close attention to the part in the press release that points out that “recent studies find that middle age is mostly a time of relative security and emotional wellbeing”. The reason is that they were interviewing those who came BEFORE the feminist advice to a utopian female life.  these women don’t have the things that this group has that gives them that.

 

Basically they are like men on their own after they get older. On their own, with no one, no family, and nothing left but dealing with it.

 

Personally, I don’t know the reason. However I do know that they will never figure out the reason, if the reason is in shibboleth land. Which means that as long as there is an ideological fence around answers, some answers will forever be out of reach, as will their solutions.

 

US suicide rate increasing:

Largest increase seen in middle-aged white women

The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase in the overall suicide rate between 1999 and 2005 was due primarily to an increase in suicides among whites aged 40-64, with white middle-aged women experiencing the largest annual increase. Whereas the overall suicide rate rose 0.7 percent during this time period, the rate among middle-aged white men rose 2.7 percent annually and 3.9 percent among middle-aged women. By contrast, suicide in blacks decreased significantly over the study’s time period, and remained stable among Asian and Native Americans. The results are published online at the website of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and will be published in the December print edition of the journal.

The researchers also conducted a detailed analysis of suicide methods across specific population groups. While firearms remain the predominant method, the rate of firearm suicides decreased during the study period. Suicide by hanging or suffocation increased markedly with a 6.3 percent annual increase among men, and a 2.3 percent annual increase among women. Hanging/suffocation accounted for 22 percent of all suicides by 2005, surpassing poisoning at 18 percent.

“The results underscore a change in the epidemiology of suicide, with middle-aged whites emerging as a new high-risk group,” said study co-author Susan P. Baker, MPH, a professor with the Bloomberg School’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. “Historically, suicide prevention programs have focused on groups considered to be at highest risk—teens and young adults of both genders as well as elderly white men. This research tells us we need to refocus our resources to develop prevention programs for men and women in their middle years.”

Baker along with colleagues Guoqing Hu, PhD, Holly Wilcox, PhD, Lawrence Wissow, MD, MPH, analyzed data from the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) mortality reports, which provides data on deaths according to cause and intent of injury by age, race, gender and state. WISQARS mortality data are based on annual data files of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The reasons for the increase in the suicide rate are not fully understood. “While it would be straightforward to attribute the results to a rise in so-called mid-life crises, recent studies find that middle age is mostly a time of relative security and emotional wellbeing,” said Baker. “Further research is warranted to explore societal changes that may be disproportionably affecting the middle-aged in this country.”

Source: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Men’s brains are ‘better connected’

Posted by artfldgr On September - 22 - 2008

Well, It’s about time. After 40 years of junk science with feminists claiming equality but better, and flipping any positive quality to being a positive quality only if women do it, and inconsequential if men do.

This type of feminist logic really had its biggest push in things that they could paint sounded better. They would say, we have a larger cable between the two hemispheres, so we think we are superior. Or that women are multitaskers, and that is better (this after studies now show that multitaskers are not as good). The list of this kind of thing literally being endless as long as the inventiveness to spin something was healthier than the truth.

Now women say this even though there is millinea of evidence showing that women select their men on the basis of the men and their families competency in the world. Unsuccessful need not apply.  One would expect from darwin that men were being selectively bred for competency in world actions. Men on the other hand, select women for fertility, of which beauty and companionship are a part of it, there is little selection for women to be competent in the world, and definitely less selection, even today, that they be so. In truth the mythical patriarchy is the result of women selectively breeding men to be good in the world for their mutual benifit in fecundity and familial success.  In general, their exhaltations about reality rarely make sense in light of prior scientific knowlege and concordance.

So its really interesting to go over my usual science fare. From the journals i read to their representation in the press I came along this interesting piece ni the UK Telegraph.

Men’s brains are ‘better connected’

Previous studies have revealed differences in the density of nerve cells and other brain features but none of these gender differences have been linked to behaviour or function in a very convincing way.

Now, Dr Lidia Alonso-Nanclares and Prof Javier De Filipe of the Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain; and colleagues there and at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, used fresh brain tissue removed from epileptic patients during brain surgery to explore microscopic differences in the brain structure of men and women, revealing a consistent difference.

The authors of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used an electron microscope to study the brain tissue and discovered that in the temporal neocortex, a key part which is involved in both social and emotional processes, located near the ears, among other skills, that men had a one third higher density than women of synapses - the junction between two brain cells that enables precisely tuned cell-to-cell communication.

However, men had more brain cells, though the excess was slight compared with the excess in the number of synapses.

Prof De Filipe said that the difference in synapses was “very consistent” and surprising, though he stressed that in other regions of the brain women may have more connections.

Other work said that the anterior commissure, which connects several regions of the frontal and temporal lobes, is 12 per cent larger in women than in men, for example.

There has been little attention to the anatomical differences between men and women at the level of the synapse, adds Prof De Felipe.

Although these differences contribute to the way men and women differ, he could not say exactly how, though he said there had been much speculation and hilarity in the lab about how this higher connectivity could contribute to male interest in sex and football, not least because the study was led by “two very clever women.”

Because they team only studied four men and four women, since the main object of the study was to compare human brains to those of rats, mice and monkeys, the authors emphasise that more research is needed to understand how these differences influence brain function.

Brain function has been shown to differ between men and women in various respects.

Intelligence is not one of them. Much more convincing, says the team are studies that show differences that relate to spatial and language abilities, and whereas men excel in mental rotation and spatial perception, women perform better in verbal memory tasks, in verbal fluency tasks, and in the speed of articulation.

These differences are not thought to be a only consequence of the influence of sex hormones - oestrogen and testosterone - on brain organization during development but also of genetic factors.

Brain scans have found structural differences in the cortical volume of the Wernicke and Broca areas, involved in language, as well as in the frontal and medial paralimbic cortices, and in the thickness and density of the gray matter in the parietal lobes.

Women are smaller than men, on average, and tend to have smaller brains.

But Prof De Felipe points out that the intelligence of humans with brains weighing as little as half the average, may be normal or even above average. “There is not a clear correlation with the size of the brain,” he says.

 

The differences were in a social area of the brain. I would guess that the men have more complex areas since they have to deal with not only positive social interaction, but also negative and conflicted social interaction where backing down is losing, not a means of finese. In other words, the social landscape of men encompasses the social landscape of women AND the social landscape of complex conflict. Rather than men not being as socially developed, they are more socially developed to handle social interactions where social rules are less able to be enforced, applied, or imposed. Such a development would naturally lead men to see a wider landscape of social possibility which encompases choices that women dont use or are mitigated from (by size as one example), and to lead women to not be capable of even seeing the potentials of conflicts and outcomes as their machinery isnt gearted to think of them as options. 

There is great pressure for this kind of Darwinian development as it relies on women not seeing options that exist but are always negative to them (like fighting over a male mate), which proscribes their solutions. Just as living in a world where there are more options to social conflict that work to a end result, would make men have a larger richer panoply of potential social actions that would include behaviors and outcomes that are not open to the women due to their size and higher fertility value.

The truth is that men have to work in both worlds, the worlds of potential conflict without limits, and the world of women where conflicts have hard limits. This naturally would set them up to have more in this area than those that dont have this need, and have other needs in relation to young children.

As science goes forward, we are finding out that the customs of our culture were important ways to act in light of our biology, and that the pronouncments of feminism and other 5th column groups that they know biology would be a certain way before investigation has been nothing but politically motivated malarky that has wasted our lives and time.

Explaining a genetic disorder’s unique shift

Posted by artfldgr On August - 26 - 2008

Recent findings in genetics have shown a very interesting effect from fathers to their children. While a rare condition PWS (Prader-Willi Syndrome) is thought to be the leading cause of genetically caused obesity, its effects can be mitigated by the participation of the father. So our cultural changes may have led to the expression of negative genes in our environment causing obesity through father absence.  

 

To quote the release:

The research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor Francisco Ubeda finds that the amount of care a father gives to his child may cause a shift in the syndrome in which its symptoms, in essence, reverse themselves.

 

In a world where fathers are now considered akin to the appendix, its interesting to find more information that the presence of a father changes the outcomes for the children in drastic ways. Yes I said more, as females raised without a blood father present have lower ages of onset of first menses. That if a human female is raised without a father, or with a stepfather, she matures earlier, and so her time to learn is clipped by biological urges appearing earlier than later.

 

Until now, scientists assumed that those genes and their level of expression—how much their effect was felt on the individual who carried them—was based on how the offspring drew resources from their mother. In this case, resources can mean anything from basic nourishment to less-tangible resources such as affection and attention.

 

Such an assumption area a modern thing, as that was not how we thought when we had a more solid culture handed down generation to generation by families. After all, there are a lot of feedback loops in biology, and this discovery shows, that since we can feel things in the abstract, those abstractions can have a serious effect in how our genetics plays out the story of our lives.

 

In order to have the opinions we do ideologically, the whole of the biology of life has to be simplified to the point where we deny the nuance and subtlety of how it works, and how utterly dependent it is on the structures that we lived under as we journey through time to reach the place and time we are now.

 

Left ideology, with particular attention to feminism, denies these subtleties so as to control behavioral outcomes of the people who choose to get their advice from the people that even make biology political. Mother Nature is about how things are; ideology is how things should be based on simplification, obfuscation, and goals identified by a select few justified by premises as a means of selling them to the many even if they have ulterior motives.

 

While they don’t think this could lead to a cure for the condition called PWS, it does lead to the understanding that we are much more sensitive to the things around us (and perhaps political tweaking of such is not such a good idea over letting us be who we are).

 

According to Ubeda, perhaps the larger implication of the research lies in his finding that a small contribution of resources by the father may influence how imprinted genes are expressed and trigger a change of expression during development.

 

Father’s presence in the home to provide resources is something that we respond to biologically.

Imagine that.

 

Though the larger question is: what will this mean, if anything, toward father policies in state interventions and law? While this is the first thing they have found that is clearly and unambiguously indicated, it will by no means be the last as long as modern genetics is allowed to proceed (and a form of Lysenkoism doesn’t take hold).

 

That resources are defined in this case by more than just a monetary donation to the house fund paid through state mediators, its also love, teaching, rewards, understanding, and all the other things that go with rearing children to be healthy, happy, competent adults.

 

Who knew that having your dad around could hide a genetic condition that makes you obese, and allow it to be expressed if he is absent?

 

Somehow fathers knew that their absences were causing more harm than they could express, maybe such research will help put real reasons to what they know deep in their hearts: that their children need them.

 

Explaining a genetic disorder’s unique shift


Findings reported in this week’s PLoS Biology give insight into the unique characteristics of the birth defect known as Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), and at the same time, may help explain the way that a certain type of gene is expressed in all humans.


The research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor Francisco Ubeda finds that the amount of care a father gives to his child may cause a shift in the syndrome in which its symptoms, in essence, reverse themselves.At birth, children with PWS experience great difficulty suckling and have very low weight. After they are weaned from their mothers, though, their appetites become voracious, and they become obese.

Ubeda believes that this shift results from PWS’ genetic roots on what is known as a group of imprinted genes. Humans typically get two copies of every gene—one from their mother and one from their father. Imprinted genes are prevented from working in one of the two copies, so that only the mother’s gene or father’s gene is expressed. This can be problematic when the working gene is somehow damaged.

Until now, scientists assumed that those genes and their level of expression—how much their effect was felt on the individual who carried them—was based on how the offspring drew resources from their mother. In this case, resources can mean anything from basic nourishment to less-tangible resources such as affection and attention.

Ubeda’s work, however, seems to show that as more of an offspring’s resources are provided by its father, that shift can also trigger a change in how those imprinted genes are expressed.

Ubeda said that PWS, which results from a deleted portion of the father’s copy of a group of imprinted genes, provides a clear example.

“Before weaning, the mother has the monopoly on providing resources directly to her offspring,” said Ubeda, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UT Knoxville. “After weaning, the father directly provides a greater share of resources to his offspring.”

Ubeda found that as the share of the father’s contribution of resources increases, there is a shift in which copies of the PWS group of imprinted genes is expressed, leading to the marked change in how PWS itself affects the child.

While Ubeda notes that this finding is unlikely to have an immediate effect on how PWS is treated, it provides implications for how diseases and conditions that are a result of imprinted genes are viewed.

“I don’t have any sense that this will somehow lead to a cure for PWS, but it does present a new area for those interested in the disease to study and hopefully a new understanding of how the disease functions,” said Ubeda.

According to Ubeda, perhaps the larger implication of the research lies in his finding that a small contribution of resources by the father may influence how imprinted genes are expressed and trigger a change of expression during development.

It’s a new finding, he said, and one that fills in a blank caused by conditions like PWS that seem to be influenced by more than just the mother’s contribution. It exemplifies how social structure may have shaped the symptoms of some diseases over the course of human evolution.

According to the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of the United States, the syndrome is found in one out of every 12 to 15 thousand children, and while rare, is considered the most common genetic cause of obesity.

Citation: Úbeda F (2008) Evolution of genomic imprinting with biparental care: Implications for Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. For more information on journals please see original article through title link.

 

 

 

How David Got Manipulated into Marrying

Posted by Marty Nemko On August - 18 - 2008

The client who just left my office–we’ll call him David–said that his girlfriend–we’ll call her Vixen– got him to marry her with such statements as:

  • “The problem is your fear of commitment.” In that ploy, Vixen pathologized David’s decision, which invoked in him a sense of insecurity and guilt. In fact, as David and I discussed things, it became clear that his not wanting to marry had nothing to do with “fear of commitment.” He had committed to many projects and people in his life. David was reluctant to marry because he knew it offered little benefit but, in a divorce, under California law, he’d likely be taken to the cleaners, forced to support an ex-wife for years.
  • “You’re unwilling to progress.” Why is it progress to get a piece of paper (marriage certificate) that greatly increases your chances of impoverishment if you break up. But David, who is a pleaser by nature, felt guilty that he was “unwilling to progress.”

Vixen took that ploy right out of liberals’ playbook: Liberals converted the term “liberal” to “progressive,” knowing that the term “liberal” implied big-spending, but who could be against progress? Would anyone prefer to be a regressive? Vixen’s ploy made David feel guilty that he was being against progress.

  • “You’re just not willing to plan for the future.” In what way does have a marriage certificate increase your ability to plan for the future?” But again, those accusations can make a guy who was moderately insecure to begin with, feel the need to cave.

And cave he did–with a $40,000 wedding. And while David is not unhappily married, if, at some point, he joins the 58% of married couples who divorce, he’ll be having to support the woman he divorced for years to come.

Dear readers, I’m not against marriage. Indeed, I’ve been married to my wife for over 30 years and don’t regret it. My daughter is happily married (and now pregnant for the first time.) But marriage should be a decision made with open eyes, not one coerced by manipulative ploys.

The Resurgence of Gold Diggers

Posted by Marty Nemko On August - 16 - 2008

I’ve previously discussed that in the past decade, I’ve seen a great increase in the number of my female clients and friends who would like to not work and, instead, find a guy who’ll support them.

That anecdotal experience has been supported by the spate of recent books on how to find a rich husband, a seminal New York Times article and a more recent Reuters report that even large percentages of women physicians and Stanford MBAs are wanting to not work or to work minimally. Perhaps that because they saw their first-wave-feminist mothers not find working outside the home to be as pleasurable as they thought it would be.

A recent CNN article explains that the desire to be a stay-at-home woman, extends not just to the women who claim their motivation is to spend more time with their kids, but even to the childless.

Guys, if you don’t mind assuming all of the financial burden associated with a live-in woman and perhaps children, fine. Some guys don’t mind. But many others have unwittingly been manipulated into being beasts of burden by women who use the techniques summarized in the above-referenced books and articles.

Make sure you’re making the huge decision to bear all the financial responsibility with fully open eyes.

Gender equality on the slide?

Posted by artfldgr On August - 7 - 2008

          One does not need a complicated view to understand that a population’s way of life is learned in family, and to maintain a way of life, one has to maintain the population and the family is the entity that does this. Does it really take college level mathematics to figure out that for every woman that chooses to exterminate or prune the family tree that emanates from her, another woman would have to choose an abundance of five branches to maintain the population which maintains the culture, of which the structural block is the family?

Seems so…
 
The bigger question is will biology win out (of course) or will political elite designer life win out (not likely), or will the latter get so punitive that it destroys the former taking us along with it?
The resurgence of the way that is more biologically adaptive is only the natural flow of how we are most comfortable living. We may try to adopt new ways of living to test them out, just as we may try and adopt using narcotics, but eventually if they give little benefit, the population will sink to its most biologically comfortable situation. For most people, that is the structure of the nuclear family and the practice of a bit of dynasty. The imposition of what a few would rather have or see, doesn’t change the mass mean that has productively brought us to this point.
 
Women are probably becoming savvy that with the state taxing their actions, their families suffer. That two women can’t exchange watching each others children unless their significant other earns enough to pay the socialist state for the privilege. They are intuitively discovering a mathematical truth. That if they share work equally, they lose the benefit of comparative advantage, and underperformed to their expectations (splitting up because of it). They are also discovering that what the men get out of work, doesn’t make them happy as what they get out of family.
 
Women now have enough generations in the situation to see that those that follow the political plan, dont do as well as those that follow the old plan (and the successful women that have what they want that are near them don’t follow that plan). The women can now safely see that their children are less healthy, they have fewer of them, they are more distant, they don’t perform as well and they have serious problems if they follow the political correct way dictated by the few who don’t represent the mean. They can see that the women that followed that way are now older and not at all happy at where they are ending up. Rather than be loved in the bosom of family and marriage, they are institutionalized with their health care rationed as they have no one left. They pine for the things that they remember and thought were givens, and that they lose by not living similarly.
 
Ultimately it takes a long while, but one only needs to survey the personal outcomes and the lower level of satisfaction, the disappearance of familiar culture, the lack of outcomes, and the fact that the old system provides what the new system only promises or pretends to.
This is why the ultimate question will be how punitive the powers that be will now get to impose their ideas on the people (for their goals not the peoples). In the past socialist type systems tended to blame the people for not being what they dictated they should be, and not being better off when they said they would be better off. The system may seek to blame the victim of the system, rather than accept the responsibility. It will do this by ramping up the laws and taxes that punish the biological behavior, and promote the imagined new form. They may even make certain situations criminal (like a woman not working being an enemy of the collective).  They will ignore the misery, as they currently ignore all the misery that unnatural systems applied to people create. This is much like animals pacing in a cage too small; we don’t act normal when what’s imposed on us does not fit our normal. Normalization does not really make something normal, it is just a state of adaptation in which coping and surviving is easier than the alternatives.
 
If one takes the Animal Farm we live in now as if it was a real farm, or a real zoo, one can’t help that notice that when zoos get it wrong, the animals in them don’t mate, they don’t have children, they don’t function normally and to their best benefits. Just because people create their own environments, doesn’t mean that a select few, with the help of a larger blind cooperative mass (exploiting their desire to do good), can’t create a living condition that is antithetical to biological success and behavior.
 
After all, one only needs to study the history of man to know that this very thing has been as much a destroyer of civilizations as much as wars that follow the decline are the thing we blame. It has been a key reason for why old cultures (mixes of ways to life) were replaced by newer more productive cultures in one way or another. Its why hobbling an Olympic runner can slow them down till any other person, could beat them. The same is true of culture, and how we live. We can choose to change in a way that allows others to run past us and replace what we hold dear. Not believing it doesn’t make it go away. We can see a current example in modern radical Islam moving in now that Western civilization has chosen to change in a way that doesn’t improve it, but instead makes it weak and vulnerable.
 
The science studies that come out and reflect things and changes, will help dictate whether we will return and live the way we want as individuals and people who have free choice, or whether the state will impose the lesser system and let everything decline till the state itself is in danger and its too late?
 
 

(PhysOrg.com) — Cambridge University study suggests growing numbers of people are concerned about working mums’ impact on family life.

Support for gender equality in Britain and the US appears to have peaked and could now be going into decline, research at Cambridge University has revealed.

The study, by Professor Jacqueline Scott from the University’s Department of Sociology, found evidence of "mounting concern" that women who play a full and equal role in the workforce do so at the expense of family life.

Although there are no signs of a full-scale gender-role backlash, there does appear to be growing sympathy for the old-fashioned view that a woman’s place is in the home, rather than in the office.

The study appears in a new book, Women And Employment; Changing Lives And New Challenges, which Professor Scott also edited.

"The notion that there has been a steady increase in favour of women taking an equal role in the workplace and away from their traditional role in the home is clearly a myth," she said.

"Instead, there is clear evidence that women’s changing role is viewed as having costs both for the woman and the family.

"It is conceivable that opinions are shifting as the shine of the ’super-mum’ syndrome wears off, and the idea of women juggling high-powered careers while also baking cookies and reading bedtime stories is increasingly seen to be unrealisable by ordinary mortals."

The survey compared the results of social attitude surveys from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - using recent data from the International Social Survey Programme as well as older polls. Professor Scott focused on the results from Britain, the United States and - because the earlier surveys pre-dated the fall of the Berlin Wall - the former Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).

In each survey, samples of between 1,000 and 5,000 people were asked to say whether they agreed or disagreed with a number of statements. Statements such as "A husband’s job is to earn income; a wife’s to take care of the children," were designed to test their overall views on gender equality. Others, such as "Family life suffers if a woman works full time," examined whether they considered maternal employment as harmful to children or families.

The study shows that while British attitudes are more egalitarian than in the 1980s, there are signs that support for gender equality may have hit a high point some time during the 1990s. When it comes to the clash between work and family life, doubts about whether a woman should be doing both are starting to creep in.

In the 1990s, for example, more than 50% of women and 51% of men said they believed that family life would not suffer if a woman went to work. Since then, the figure has fallen - to 46% of women and 42% of men. Fewer people (54.9% of women and 54.1% of men) now take the view that a job is the best way for a woman to be independent than in 1991.

The results are even more extreme in the United States, where the percentage of people arguing that family life does not suffer if a woman works has plummeted, from 51% in 1994 to 38% in 2002. About the same number of West Germans (37%) agree; but the number there has risen, having been just 24% in the mid-1990s.

Professor Scott argues that each country is at a different stage in a cycle of sympathy for gender equality. In West Germany, where up until the 1990s a large majority of people still believed that men should be the family breadwinners while women stayed at home, acceptance for the notion of working mums is now increasing.

In Britain and the US, however, where support for equal opportunities for both sexes is much longer-standing, some people are now starting to have second thoughts. In most cases, this appears to revolve around concerns that the welfare of children and of the family are being compromised the more women spend their time at work and find themselves lumbered with the double burden of employment and family care.

The report adds that there should now be further investigation into whether the attitude shift is occurring because caring for the family is seen as predominantly women’s work, or because people feel there is no practical alternative to a woman fulfilling the role.

"A change in attitude is not the same thing as a change in behaviour, but attitudes do matter," Professor Scott added. "Women - particularly mothers - can experience considerable strain when attitudes reinforce the notion that employment and family interests conflict.

"If we are to make progress in devising policies that encourage equal working opportunities for women, we need to know more about what gender roles people view as practical, as possible and as fair."

Women And Employment: Changing Lives And New Challenges is published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. this week.

Provided by Cambridge University

Study: verbal aggression may affect children’s behavior

Posted by artfldgr On August - 5 - 2008

 

This is interesting, given that in the absence of a tempering other, the mother can inflict endless amounts of this kind of thing.  That in the absence of a father, a controlling mother has no limits and can cause serious damage to the child.
 
Do notice how the study is about MOTHERS, but they keep switching to PARENTS in their phrasing. It begs the question of why the title doesn’t say “Mothers verbal aggression….”, rather than just “verbal aggression…”. The study is about mothers, not parents, the article writer makes an assumption to spread the negative to all parents when the study is about the negative from one gender and that genders behavior. Fathers have generally been more developed in their play with children, from unstructured play, to organized sports. To paint fathers with the same negative brush that belongs to mothers, and to equate fathers to step fathers is a big problem in how we disseminate the information we rediscover in our neo-ignorant culture.
 
Turns out if one reads the work of Clarke-Stewart and others studying the same areas, one will find that Fathers are better at unstructured play, and “the intellectual skills of 15- to 30-month-olds (as measured by the Bayley Mental Scale at 16 and 22 months, and the MCDI at 30 months) were significantly related to the fathers’ engagement in unstructured play, fathers’ positive rating of children, the amount fathers and children interacted, and fathers’ aspirations for children’s independence as measured on an age-expected questionnaire.”
 
Its interesting that before our modern era, we had much better parenting skills, and much better behaved and educated people who were generally nicer. While today, we are spending copious amounts of money attempting to re-learn the wisdom that we thought was junk when we didn’t understand it.
 
Any one who takes the time to watch the new modern mother with her children spends more time wincing than having warm fuzzies, but that’s the price to pay when we make women as aggressive as we imagine men to be (but aren’t).
 
 
The methods mothers use to control their children during playtime and other daily activities could have a negative impact on their child’s self-esteem and behavior, according to a new Purdue University study.
"It’s hard to tell parents how to interact with their children based on one study, but what we see here is that parents who have a propensity for being verbally aggressive have a tendency to try to direct and control their children during a play period," said Steven R. Wilson, a professor of communication who specializes in family issues. "As a result, these children were less cooperative, and not only are parents setting up situations that are challenging for them to handle, but they also are subtly undermining their child’s self-esteem."

Wilson and Felicia Roberts, an associate professor of communication, are lead authors of a study that appears in the July issue of Human Communication Research journal. The researchers videotaped 40 mothers as they played with one of their children, ages 3-8, during a 10-minute, unstructured play period. The mothers also completed a series of questionnaires to assess their general tendency to be verbally aggressive toward others. For example, someone who is verbally aggressive is likely to insult others as a way to motivate them to comply or behave.

The researchers found that mothers who were high in the general tendency to be verbally aggressive often tried to take control of the play period. For example, the four mothers with the highest verbal aggression scores on average were attempting to direct their child’s actions once every 12 seconds, while the four mothers with the lowest verbal aggression scores tried to do so only about half as often. In addition to verbally aggressive mothers telling a child to play with a different toy or to stop playing, they also used negative body language, such as restraining a child by the wrist or shoulder, to reinforce their commands.

"Of course all parents direct their children, and people in general are always directing others to close a door or hand them something," said Roberts, who has a background in linguistics and is a conversational analyst. "It’s something we do all the time. But there is a qualitative difference in the kinds of directing going on by these verbally aggressive mothers. By looking at how and when directives occurred, not just how often, we found that moms who scored highest on verbal aggression used directives to control the child and, ultimately, the way the game or activity was played. The aggressive action is not overt, as in a parent hitting or yelling, but these small negative maneuvers can say so much to a child."

Parents interested in learning more about how to improve communication with their children should contact a pediatrician or seek out community family and social service programs, Wilson said.

"We all say things to our children that we regret saying, but saying a lot of things that attack a child’s self-confidence is not healthy," Wilson said. "These parents were in an unstructured, low-stress environment, and if we saw this behavior in such a brief setting, how could such negative interactions, even so subtle, affect a child over the long-term? For example, if the parents always have to control what activity they and their children are going to play - as well as for how long and how they are going to play it - you wonder if this communicates to the child that what they want to do doesn’t matter."

The researchers will be looking at how praise plays a role in these types of parent-child interactions.

Source: Purdue University

 

 

Oh no? Not that!!! Not a “a resurgence of the traditional homemaker/breadwinner family structure in dual-earner households”.
 
Shows where our elite in universities and feminists have been leading us, just as they said, to the destruction of family and the creation of a communist state in the US.
 
Now they are finding out that when it comes to being maximally productive and meeting the goals of individuals, we abandon and fall to a capitalist structure of the family. That in the absence of great pressure, manipulation, and huge financial success, we revert to the system that grants us our ability to maximize what we have and what those we love have. Given that socialism breeds subsistence, it eventually creates economic problems that force the constituencies to adopt the nuclear family as the best option at maximizing comparative advantage between complimentary individuals.
 
The more socialism predators take from the successful, the more the family dynasty structure will take hold. The more they let these structures be successful, the less needed the family dynasty structure is needed.  They are in opposition to the forces they need to establish their system, and their system deflates and self destructs by its nature every time.
 
How people do will ultimately depend on which side of the oscillating polity they end up on. They are either on the wealthy side sliding down into socialist poverty, or they are on the subsistence side attempting to create capitalism and dynasty to rise up out of poverty.
 
Given that these systems are in opposition, one destructive and harmful (socialism) recreating the feudal state, the other destructive to the feudal state and in opposition granting freedom to the average person, they will oscillate till one wins out. If socialism wins out, we get a modern feudal state where the wealthy of today become the lords and ladies of a new dark age that preserves their families status for a long time, with starvation, disease, and little in the way of mobility. If we get the other, we get progress, wealth, ability, and a better life, but the wealthy can guarantee no position for their progeny.
 
What a quandary…
With the average person caught in the middle of freedom to fail, or seemingly safe servitude at the whims of the feudal state lords.
 
Below we are finding that they have tapped the system enough that once the poor have enough money on one side, rather than both having to toil to support the state, the system then reverts to the old way of traditional families, customs, and wisdoms.
 
This implies that our ancestors were more personally wealthy than we are, since we naturally will work to support ourselves in a subsistence described as a wealth of things.
 
Ultimately they are fretting as to the truth that Simone De Bouvier made all to clear:
"No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one."
 
In this way they frame the problem as overworked husbands. For if the husbands work less, they earn less and the mothers and family core will be forced to enter the workforce and have their labors tapped for the state to use. Otherwise, the husbands might be seen as “good providers” with the wives maximizing those earnings by not sharing her labors with the state, but instead sharing it with her family and friends without taxation.  
 
Ultimately given the choice it seems that women want the old ways we had, rather than the new ways they are attempting to force on us. They like the idea of being surrouded by family in the later years and of holidays and being able to work for the benefit of their children, rather than the state.
 
Is it any wonder that given any stay in the crack of the whip, or any gap in the wall, we run through it attempting to have what we lost?
 
**Note that this commentary dovetails another commentary on the same subject. however it seems that the subject is rewrapped and being pushed through again and again in various incarnations and angles redeploying the information. Each rehashing gives an opportunity to discuss the issue again in another light.
 
 
 
Americans work longer hours than ever. That not only hurts women’s careers but also widens the gender gap and threatens to trigger a resurgence of the traditional homemaker/breadwinner family structure in dual-earner households, says a new Cornell study.
Presented Aug. 1 at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Boston, the study found that "Women whose husbands work long hours are more likely to quit their jobs," said Youngjoo Cha, a Cornell doctoral candidate in sociology who expects her Ph.D. in 2010. "Yet men’s careers are not impacted when their wives put in long hours."

Cha found the phenomenon occurs among women across occupations, but the link is strongest among women with children and professional women.

Working long hours has increasingly become expected in the work culture, she noted, and her research shows how "seemingly gender-neutral workplace norms can result in discriminatory outcomes and perpetuate gender inequality."

To determine the impact of longer work hours on dual-earner households, Cha analyzed data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation, a longitudinal survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Cha found that women whose husbands worked more than 60 hours per week were 44 percent more likely to quit their jobs, compared with similar women whose husbands did not overwork. Professional wives with overworking husbands were 52 percent more likely to quit than similar women whose husbands did not overwork. Professional women with children were 90 percent more likely to quit their jobs than childless women whose husbands did not overwork.

In 2002 more than 12 percent — up from less than 9 percent in 1983 — of employees in the United States worked more than 50 hours a week. Cha found that 30 percent of professional husbands in dual-income households worked more than 50 hours per week, compared with only 12 percent of their professional wives. This suggests, said Cha, women in professional jobs are less likely to expect spousal support than men.

"Many workplaces use ‘face time’ as an important proxy/signal for workers’ commitment or professional competence," said Cha. "However, it should be noted that increased work hours do not assure increased productivity, and more importantly, it can seriously disadvantage many female workers who put in fewer hours at work than men."

The research was supported by a grant from the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell.

Provided by Cornell University

Women end up less happy than men

Posted by artfldgr On July - 30 - 2008

So maybe it isnt him?

Women end up less happy than men

Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life – even though they start out happier, reveals new research by Anke Plagnol of the University of Cambridge, and University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin.

 Plagnol and Easterlin’s study, forthcoming in the Journal of Happiness Studies, is the first to use nationally representative data spanning several decades to examine the role of unfulfilled desires in a person’s sense of well-being.

As the researchers explain, expectations of success may vary among those raised in different generations (i.e., an economic depression). Data sets from a range of time periods may also have different demographic compositions.

In their analysis, the researchers control for birth cohort and demographic characteristics such as race and education. They find that women are, on average, happier than men in early adulthood – but the glow wears off with time. Specifically, after the age of 48, men’s overall happiness exceeds women’s happiness.

These gender patterns of overall happiness correlate to patterns in two significant aspects of life satisfaction: family and finances.

As Plagnol explains: In later life it is "men [who] come closer to fulfilling their aspirations, are more satisfied with their family lives and financial situations, and are the happier of the two."

Women and men have fairly similar life goals when it comes to love, the study reveals. Nine out of 10 people of both genders reach adult life wanting a happy marriage.

"Differences between men and women in aspirations for marriage and children are fairly small," says Plagnol, who received her Ph.D. from USC in 2007. "Gender differences in satisfaction depend largely on attainment."

The saddest period of the average man’s life – his 20s – is also the period when he is most likely to be single.

Young men are also more dissatisfied than young women with their financial situations, not because they are worse off, but because they want more and therefore experience a greater "shortfall," the researchers explain.

But age alters many things, including men’s money woes and lackluster love lives.

After 34, men are more likely to be married than women, and the gap only widens with age, mirroring men’s growing satisfaction with family life.

Men also become more satisfied with their financial situations over time, as reflected in their increased spending power. The researchers found that men tend to covet big-ticket items that might not be within reach until later in life, such as a car or vacation home.

(A notable exception: women want more "nice clothes" than men, the researchers found.)

These findings are consistent with an earlier study by Easterlin showing that recent generations are less satisfied than previous generations, despite having more.

"Of course, one doesn’t have to be married to be happy, but if that’s something you really want – and it is for most people – then the failure to attain it can have an impact on your overall happiness," Plagnol says, adding that those in a relationship also tend to be in a stronger financial position than those who must depend solely on their own resources.

Some age milestones:

– 41: Age at which men’s financial satisfaction exceeds women’s financial satisfaction
– 48: Age at which men’s overall happiness exceeds women’s overall happiness
– 64: Age at which men’s satisfaction with family life exceeds women’s satisfaction

Citation: Plagnol, Anke C. and Richard A. Easterlin, "Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men." Journal of Happiness Studies; DOI: 10.1007/s10902-008-9106-5.

Source: University of Southern California
 

 

It may also stand to reason that those who have unrealistic desires, and a less accurate view of the world and how it works, would end up more unhappy. "You can do it all" becomes a socialist cry to equal misery under these kinds of results. Add to this the fact that women are happier married than not, and what does the advice of mostly lesbian feminist leaders has done for the general happiness of women today?

Of course since this goes against the prevailing political wind, the information will not be used to address how we can be happier. Instead it will be mostly ignored, that way the crisis that befalls women can be molded by some pretty ingenious leaders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Barack Obama threatened to kick the ass of a fellow legislator while in the Illinois State Senate.

A fellow Illinois state Senator says Obama made the threat — or something sounding like it — during a tense exchange in the Legislature.

The lawmaker says a third person had to phyiscally intervene to separate them.

Personally, I doubt Barry could fight his way out of a wet paper bag. But still, such irrational behavior obviously doesn’t speak well for Obama, and certainly helps put the lie to this  false persona he’s built for himself as a calm, thoughtful, new kind of politician.

 

Girls really do love bad boys

Posted by artfldgr On June - 20 - 2008

Turns out the rumors from the Nice Guys are correct…

When left on their own, without family and friends to help, women select mental people for mates because they find them sexy. That in the absence of the restriction of sex (which i am making no suggestions either way), that such overwhelming selection drowns out common sense. As long as short term sex and gratification are on the table, wasting time getting to know them, respecting them, and selecting a commpanion based on their caracter and values goes right out the window. Not because there arent guys that want to do that, but because the guys that do that lose, and the guys that treat them badly win. 

No one wants to be a Loser, and with the modern woman, being a Loser (from the past) makes you a winner (in the present)!

That in the absence of chapperones, and such, womens choices tend towards selecting mates that would send us back to the trees and a dog eat dog way of life.

It doesnt take long for the guys to figure out what works, and so the women define the kind of pool that they can select from as the guys tailor themselves to whats effective. The ones in the pool define what the women have to do to get their attention since they are what the women want.

In the old days, it was bat an eye, drop a hankerchief, and be feminine for a decent man, giving no truck to the bad ones. Bring someone with you so that both are in control. Take time to get to know one another, discuss things, and keep the sex monster at bay. After all, we want to have sex with more people we see than the people we know.  Getting to know someone first gives you pause to avoid bad outcomes. Listening to your family who are watching him as he is with you is also important in the past.  After all, who will look out for you better than your parents?  By the results of the studies, it isnt the self. 

Today, the rules say you dont give truck to the boring nice guys, and so you have to compete for the bad boys who basically wouldnt notice a decent girl that batted her eyes and wanted a long courtship.  Though they do pay attention to coquettes, pole dancers, girls in fetish wear, and women that can pull a train. 

Of course the more moderate feminists cant understand what went wrong, and try to blame the men. These studies show that the men are just trying to be what the women want (not what they say they want).

So its a race to the bottom as they try to impress people with antisocial personality disorders who would make them jump through perverse hoops to prove how easy they are. 

Girls really do love bad boys

NEW research has revealed that "bad boys" who are cursed with anti-social personality traits are more successful with the opposite sex than "nice guys".

This week’s New Scientist says two studies in the US have found that men with "dark" characters - such as Hollywood hunk Colin Farrell - have the most prolific sex lives.

The so-called "dark triad" traits include impulsiveness, narcissism, thrill-seeking and deceitfulness, it said.

One of the studies, a survey of 35,000 people in 57 countries, found a clear link between dark triad traits and the reproductive success of males.

"It is universal across cultures for high dark triad scorers to be more active in short-term mating," David Schmitt, of Bradley University in the United States, told the New Scientist.

"They are more likely to try and poach other people’s partners for a brief affair."

Another study found that males who scored higher in the dark triad personality traits had a greater number of partners and a desire for short relationships.

 

Wow, who knew? (the guys who tried to tell them)

Of course the nice guys tend now to become copies of these bad boys because they dont want to be dealt out of the game of life.  so this means that there is a much smaller amount of men willing to not use women and dump them, and there is a market for people to educate nice guys on how to become the crumbs and abusive people that women select (but say they dont want).

Way to go feminism.. 

You not only led sheep to the wolves, but made it customary for them to seek them out and lie down with them, all the while removing all the protections of the people that cared for them.

Utimately the genetics of the situation will lead to a vast increase of this kind of man in the population (more women have sex with more sociopaths, and antisocial personality disorders and what do you get as your future posterity?). The effect will not be the production of the new sensitive man that can be with women and be partners in life as before feminism, no, it will be the antisocial prison thug type who will use and discard her.

As soon as our society had enough nice guys, the ladies told them that they dont want them. Then went out and created a society that would destroy and remove the nice guys that were willing to live the way that we all thought was better (without having to destroy the family). One only needs to look at the painting "Sunday in the park" by George Seurat and compare that to the new art we create today, and you can see where their boat ride has taken us to. 

In this case the old cultural maxims are so true:

You lay down with dogs, you get up with flees

You dont know what you had till its gone

One shouldnt throw the baby out with the bath water.

 

This kind of list could get real long. Though it would fall on empty ears today.

Women in the safe life created by men called society, which is much safer than before, find misery too exciting for them to want the nice guys. Its as if they are asking for the sword to fall because they can’t stant the tension of it hanging there.  They tend to want men who want many women unlike the nice guys. they tend to like men that will not work and leech off of them. They tend to like men who are violent to them.

Face it nice guys, we cant compete, and maybe we shouldn’t? 

After all, there is a huge number of foreign women who have not yet decided to be miserable, and given the outcomes of the past 40 years in the west, the problem ultimatly will fix itself demographically one way or another.

 

 

 

Baby Boomers Handing Down Moral Degradation to Current and Future Generations

Posted by Felicia Fee Benamon On June - 17 - 2008

 

It’s not enough to keep the moral slide of the Baby Boomer generation contained in those outlandish years of the 60’s and 70’s.  All of the drug use and immorality is being reintroduced to a new generation of Americans. Without shame, it seems Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) are willing to continue to flaunt immorality without consequences. If someone dares raise an issue about the need to return America back to God and to fix society’s current woes, they have the liberal establishment (mostly held by the Baby Boomer generation) to contend with.

 
However, social issues need to be addressed. There is a HUGE need for abortion to stop its rampage on our children. There is a need for parents to step up and BE parents (stop trying to serve your own interests…looking at life like it’s "all about me" and "I can have it all"), there is a need for Americans to put God first in their lives (you can’t sing/say "God Bless America" and then ignore Him in your daily lives), there is a need for Biblical tenets and true patriotism to be taught to the younger generations, and there is a need to abstain from further action that will limit such expression.
 
Freedom of speech? Only for a few? I think not. How has America degraded to such a state (see article: Biblical message now criminalized below this article)?
 
The Baby Boomer generation needs to WAKE UP! You have dropped the ball in so many ways!  Wake up for the sake of my generation and the generations to follow. Generation X (born 1965-1978) needs leaders. Leaders will not come forth from my generation if they have no one to show them the proper guidance. Mistakes will be made that will cause our nation to falter.
 
Society is too hands off with younger generations. When I say "younger," I mean Generation X, Y or the "Millennials" (born 1979-2002) as they are also called. Baby Boomers have not provided guidance…those from "The Greatest Generation" (the generation that preceded the Boomers) are leaving this Earth in rising numbers and have also looked upon this nation with sorrow and disappointment with what it has become.  Surely this isn’t the same country they grew up in or dreamed it would be.
 
Generation Y/"Millennials" are being indoctrinated in American Universities by the same Baby Boomers who espouse the leftist mentality. A socialist mindset inundates many of the University halls in America. But many children who attend college today did not come from households that are extreme in liberal views.  
 
We don’t have a generation who can think for themselves and stand on what they believe. Thus, it puts our nation in peril in the coming years. My generation and those behind me will be more apt to allow the government or outside forces to govern how we live. They will be lackluster in defending their own values taught at home.
 
The Baby Boomer effect on Marriage
 
One misconception towards marriage that society has currently is that today, one should be successful or "doing well" before they meet their "Mr or Miss Right." When one repeats the marriage vows, they may recite "…for richer or poorer…"  Marriage is about becoming one with that special someone; it is a union between a male and female …two people coming together and asking for the blessing of Almighty God, asking for His hand to guide them as they embark on a journey together in life. Whether one has money or not should not be in the equation. Yes we wish a happy newlywed couple much success, but when it is time to say "I do," whether or not a person is financially fit (or is secure in a career) shouldn’t put a damper on a relationship. Many of the wealthy and successful in this world are known to divorce as soon as they marry.
 
If one person in the relationship should bring up a reason along those lines to delay (delay and delay some more) marriage, it does nothing but bring up feelings of unnecessary hurt and pain in a relationship.
 
The question should be, is there a bond of love and friendship that the couple can build on as they go through life? Will the couple be willing to grow together and face challenges together? Those are important questions to ask someone who is ready to walk down the aisle.
 
We place too high a priority on making sure everything else in our life is set before we marry someone when really marriage could be that blessing to propel two people to new heights.
 
My generation has such a negative view of marriage. They have been shown that example from the Baby Boomer generation (which has produced a staggering divorce rate).  In life, it is not about me, or trying to make everything perfect. Nothing in this life will ever be perfect, but when one finds real love, treasure it. It is a blessing, especially in this day and age.
 
Make that leap of love and fidelity and marry…don’t leave the one you love waiting for the ring because you feel you have to get "everything together" and have "everything just right".
 
And for those of you playing the field….settle on someone. If we continue in such a mode where many in this country are philandering… with every other country watching our actions, we will soon be overtaken. We cannot continue to run after our lusts and be blessed as a nation. 
 
Further Discussion and Conclusion 
 
As one can see, I’m not to happy about the outcome the Baby Boomers have had on society. Many of the challenges my generation and those behind me face has to do with how Baby Boomers have affected society. A new program on CBS highlights the 70’s in its raunchy state. The show, Swingtown brings back to light a time when people experimented with each other’s wives and husbands and participated in other supposedly "liberating" but risky behaviors.  Boomers continue to bring that immorality to the younger generations …shoving it down our throats. It’s disgusting!
 
Not all Baby Boomers fall into this category. Many have acted responsibly to mold young people into decent citizens and teach sacred values and traditions that Americans hold dear. Many Boomers have confronted societal ills like racism and injustice. If you fall into this category, you have my heartfelt thanks and gratitude.  But overall, the Boomers need to re-evaluate what life is about, get a new perspective, recognize their mistakes, and help set things right.
 
In order to effectively do that, we all must realize we cannot do it ourselves. We must have the help of Jesus Christ.
 
The Lord Jesus gives us a chance to right our wrongs by coming to Him in repentance. Otherwise, what is to follow will be judgment and severe hardship.
 
We’ve been on the path of destruction long enough.  It’s time to get it right. 
 
 
Related Reading:
 
Fix my kid  by Al Menconi
 
Biblical message now criminalized

 

*Felicia Benamon is a conservative columnist who writes from a political perspective, but occasionally deviates to write about other concerns facing her country.  A patriotic American, Felicia hopes to motivate others to be more conscious of the current state of affairs in America, and to hold true to the wonderful traditions that make America great.

 
Felicia comes from a military background and is proud to support the men and women who put their lives on the line daily to protect American citizens and who reach out to help those in need across the globe.
 
Write to Felicia at: FeliciasDesk@aol.com

 

Fathers Groups Go Front and Center at Los Angeles Courthouse

Posted by Ray Blumhorst On June - 13 - 2008

Fathers 4 Justice, Los Angeles (F4JLA) and the National Coalition For Men, Los Angeles (NCFMLA) stood front and center this morning at the entrance to a downtown Los Angeles Courthouse. The corner of 1st St. and Hill St. is always a bustling intersection and this morning it was a little busier than usual. All across America, today is Fatherless Day, and folks are taking to the streets to call attention to the way family law and family law courts mistreat Fathers.

The Hill St. Courthouse is the site where many a famous Hollywood celebrity has experienced the pangs of divorce and family law tyranny.

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Picketers with their large signs were on the sidewalks by 7:15 a.m., and by 8:00 a.m., there was no ignoring their presence in front of the courthouse. Folks from all across Southern California showed up for this event. Protest organizers were surprised and pleased when Harry Crouch of the California Men’s Center San Diego pulled into the parking lot to join them. Crouch drove over a hundred miles to join the protest. Sons, daughters, 2nd wives and others also drove long distances and made other sacrifices to join this protest and express their strong dissatisfaction with family law and family law courts.

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Passing cars honked horns in support of the signs they saw. About ten of the protesters wore carpenter’s aprons that they used to hold the flyers and buttons they were handing out. One protestor handed out over 40 buttons in under 5 minutes. “Father’s Day button,” he said as the people walked by. He continued, “Sunday is Father’s Day, but today is Fatherless Day. Dads are driven from their kid’s lives by these courts, and then blamed for being absent.” The button this protestor was handing out said simply, “Honor the Father.” Over the course of the 3-hour protest, the protestors gave away hundreds of fliers and hundreds of buttons.

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At the end of the 3-hour protest, the protestors marched to the patio area between the Superior Court building and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor’s building. It was only about a month and a half ago that one Supervisor held a news conference on the other side of the country building, announcing a L. A. County crackdown on “Deadbeat Dads.” Fred Sotile, President of F4JLA read a short speech in the lavish patio area, denouncing the unfair treatment Dads receive at the hands of their government. Protestors loudly proclaimed their support of his statements.

Even though the crowd was not as big as the leaders of the protest would have liked, it was significantly bigger than their Father’s Day rally last year in a L. A. County park. With continued hard work and perseverance Father’s rights advocates are hopeful that they will double, or triple, the size of their protest next year - if one is necessary. Sadly, there is much fear that government still does not get the message that Father’s rights advocates are sending, that the war on Dads will no longer be tolerated. More and more Dads, and their relatives, and friends are speaking up, demanding that this tyranny end.

UK Mail Gives Women a Dose of Reality Femail

Posted by artfldgr On June - 6 - 2008

Going through my morning mail i get a reference to an interesting article at the UK Mail Femail section…

It appears to be a bit of a dose of reality.

The first article tries to explain:

Why more and more women are losing custody battles over their children

One could call this an expectations expose…   The main gist not discussed but oozing through the cracks was:

I did what they said would be great, so how come I don’t have my kids since I worked.

to which the obvious answer to those who understand the far left leaders of the radical feminists…

It means that they were set up, not knowing the game was that they were to be damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

They never realized that feminism is anti capitalist, and the reason the working men were losing their kids was not because they were male, no, that wasn’t the reason, which was the presumption when there wasn’t enough information.

now that we know better one can clearly see that whomever works ends up being a capitalist, and its the capitalist that gets punished for not taking a state dole, staying home, and having ‘quality time’ in a state of social justice subsistence.

So now women are suddenly finding out that if they work, and their husbands stay home, they get treated like men.

 How dare they!

Then while at the same place I spied another article and followed it through, and its another wakeup call to reality and what has been created in womans name.

Forget this tosh about ‘freemales’ - single women who say they are happy are lying

Ouch, this may be more reality than the UK working women may want to take in one day. Losing their children, dying of heart desease, finding out your wife - i mean husband - played mr mom with some stay at home, stress medical conditions, children calling minimum wage watchers mom, and all the other gifts presented by the ladies of dissent.

Sad truth is that they havent seen nothing yet. My last article told the tale of the reality if infertility, and that its a lot worse than even a pessimist might decide.

This article points out that when the ladies get together they try to prop themselves up with lies about how wonderful life is. Kind of like an old "I Love Lucy" episode where they were caught writing back home and didnt want to tell everyone that they were just a nothing, a cog, and have nothing at home too. But they sure do have a cafe latte lifestyle all full of frivolities to distract and keep busy for someone elses purpose. 

the author is oh so quick to detail what she sees around her with her honest eyes"

In fact, do you believe any single woman over 30 is being honest when she claims to be happy that way? I don’t. 

What’s really going on behind that confident demeanour and fulfilled exterior is crushing loneliness and desperation.
 

Single women become adept at playing the isn’t-life-grand game.
 

They have to do it around men so they don’t appear desperate.
 

And they come to do it around other women, too, as I’ve discovered in the course of counselling hundreds of single women in my work as an agony aunt and life coach.
 

This is what happens when the devil gives you advice and you take it.  You end up leaving paradise for another set of digs that is a lot worse for you, a lot better for the devil you listened to, and no way to get back, because that’s the design.  this is what happens when you betray the trust of those closest to you for the advice of strangers claiming to know it all, and to make change that everyone can be proud of. They didn’t know they were not part of everyone, they were part of the no ones that enable the elite who ARE representative of everyone.

The sad truth is that while pretending to take life seriously, they didnt take life seriously. the didnt take it seriously that its not easy finding a compatible mate, and that the older you are the harder it is (since we get set in our ways). they didnt take fertility seriously, so they are kissing up to 40, when their fertility started declining at 25 (nice soft eugenics population control). they didnt listen when someone said "if we abort all these kids who are going to fund your feminist socailst excesses?".

the truth is that they didnt listen to those that had the answers, they listened to those that had sweet little lies that would con them into giving up their lives to extablish a change so that a bunch of sociopathic control freak harpies could then have enough power and enough control to "remake america".

They used all kinds of words to make being a wage slave glamorous. they gave you sex in the city to show you how much fun it could be (while your own private life called rome burns).  they gave you promises of endless sex, no commitments, a bright future given on a slver platter by the state, children without caring for them, lower crime, higher standards, and so on.

never at any time did most of the women think of not trusting women. never did they realize that they are so gullible they will buy soap with fruit in it. a primitive version of the miser monkey bathing in the scarse wealth of life: food. never did they really ask - HOW.

Dont believe me?

Susie, 38, a music industry lawyer, is a classic case of portraying the sunny single when inside she’s utterly miserable.
 

In therapy sessions with me, she despaired of her secret search for a man.
 

I say "secret search", because two years previously she’d stopped being honest with people and telling them she hoped to settle down, at the very least, with a Mr Maybe Right.
 

Susie felt ashamed of living a lie  -  and finally confessed she always pretends to be cheerful about her single status.
 

"How would other people feel coming back to an empty flat after a long, hard day with no one to talk to or cuddle?