tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post114449528169103251..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: The politics of bad faithUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1152999605810755432006-07-16T07:40:00.000+10:002006-07-16T07:40:00.000+10:00Alex, I've written a short article on this theme h...Alex, I've written a short article on this theme <A HREF="http://www.ozconservative.com/whenliberalismfails.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1152999013051225032006-07-16T07:30:00.000+10:002006-07-16T07:30:00.000+10:00Good comment, Alex. We had the same problem with w...Good comment, Alex. We had the same problem with women postponing marriage and children here in Australia too.<BR/><BR/>I've just posted a new article written by an Australian feminist, Jane Caro, who describes what my generation of Australian women did. According to this feminist, women liberated themselves by choosing the following life course:<BR/><BR/>"Most made choices about their choices as they travelled through life, being the new ladettes in their 20s, ambitious earners in their 30s, stay-at-home mums (at least for a year or two) when they procreated, then back into the workforce as their children grew and, as happened frequently, as they left their unsatisfactory husbands."<BR/><BR/>Jane Caro approves of all this. But of course if women were "ladettes" in their 20s and then careerists in their 30s, then there wasn't much space left for them to procreate - and many didn't or else left only enough time for a single child.<BR/><BR/>And yes, you're right that the typical response to falling birthrates doesn't really confront the underlying causes, but is usually framed in economic terms, with suggestions of additional state subsidies for childcare or cash incentives for mothers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1152990021537247022006-07-16T05:00:00.000+10:002006-07-16T05:00:00.000+10:00...and let's not forget the consequences on the de......and let's not forget the consequences on the demographics. In the Netherlands we are seeing a troubling trend of women refusing to have children at a responsible (read: young/fertile) age or having any children at all. Feminism has put a taboo on wanting to have children at an early age and choosing the traditional role in the family. Who would be so stupid to let having children interfere with her career development? So what we are left with is a whole generation of women, that will prospone raising a family as much as possible and minimize the impact on "personal development", resulting in alltime low average of 2.1 children per family.<BR/><BR/>It has even gone so far that women who choose having a family after having followed proper education are found guilty of "destroying educational investments" by some progressive socialists. Confrontation with the dimishining birthrates and population growth usually results in a debate on the state's role in providing "proper family incentives", such cheaper daycare. Yes, let us envolve the state in this matter and change the nature of the problem to mere "breeding-economics".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1144772855192182152006-04-12T02:27:00.000+10:002006-04-12T02:27:00.000+10:00This was a very interesting post. I think that Ka...This was a very interesting post. <BR/>I think that Kate Millett letter should be required reading in college or graduate school for anyone considering majoring in any of the feminist/racist/human services/touch-feeling majors.<BR/><BR/>The sentence that struck me most was this: "I have no saleable skills." What a devestating realization for a 63 year old.<BR/><BR/>I had a friend in college who spent four years a got a bachelor's degree with a major in "Liberal Arts for the Human Services." Today, at age 47, he drives a delivery truck for a pharmacy, bringing prescriptions to elderly people. He lives on the edge of complete poverty, has never married (no sensible woman wants to marry a man with such limited prospects), has no kids. He has painted himself into a corner: late 40s with no skill set of value. All that time and money for a degree and all he can manage is to sell his serivices as a delivery driver.<BR/><BR/>It ought to be a crime for a college to let a young person even choose such useless majors.MnMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110007186831549266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1144557524600524292006-04-09T14:38:00.000+10:002006-04-09T14:38:00.000+10:00The problem with many Feminists, Kate Millet inclu...The problem with many Feminists, Kate Millet included, is to deny that we act in accord to our biological imperatives ,.These sad women are the same ones who now feed the IVF industry because they thought they could be faux men in industry and commerce and then have children ignoring the realities of biology.Iain Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912470020966769814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1144555684115987382006-04-09T14:08:00.000+10:002006-04-09T14:08:00.000+10:00I can't help it. I evolved this way. It ain't my f...I can't help it. I evolved this way. It ain't my fault. Leave me alone.Ron Van Wegenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15181898839992597105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1144535867045527672006-04-09T08:37:00.000+10:002006-04-09T08:37:00.000+10:00Possibly not spot on the topic, but for a humanist...Possibly not spot on the topic, but for a humanistic take on the psychology and the relations of the sexes, check out Ian D Suttie, the great Freudian revisionist and author of The Origins of Love and Hate. I have put quite a lot of this on line, check out the chapter 'The Taboo on Tenderness'.<BR/><BR/>http://www.the-rathouse.com/Revivalist4/Suttie.htmlRafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278597438041685633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1144527726771404492006-04-09T06:22:00.000+10:002006-04-09T06:22:00.000+10:00Why is this such a difficult concept men to unders...Why is this such a difficult concept men to understand. Probably the feminazi's who dominate this discussion cloud the issue, and divert from the real issues. For women, it's not the "traditional" roles that are the problem, but in the way our system has evolved, access to the resources required to support our lives has been denied/restricted to women. Only recently have women been able to gain access to these resources for themselves. This has led them to be dependent on a man which in turn has allowed some men (and I stress not all) to abuse them. Hence you get the feminist argument that marriage is slavery/rape (designed to get a reaction, but unfairly categorises all men). Unfortunately, the feminists forget to mention all the wonderful men who don't, in the feminists' efforts give women choices.<BR/><BR/>The problem with feminism wasn't that it happened, it's that it seems to have jumped over to a socialist political agenda, instead of joining with men to get a better deal for both.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com