It seems Sally rather likes it:
Good morning, I thought I would log in and write a little more this morning before I started the chores around the house. I don’t have enough time in one sitting. So here is where I left off with you finishing one of your statements:
And how, I ask you, have women’s rights improved things for women? Consider some of the foremost aims of the early feminists: Divorce condemns most women to poverty because so many are incapable of providing for themselves without being handed a make-work job in government, abortion allows a woman to murder her children and slaughters a disproportionate number of girls, one of women’s first political priorities was to ban alcohol and they have used their access to education to destroy the value of a college degree. The worst thing men could do to women is to leave them to fend for themselves; even giving them influence in government is turning out to be disastrous.
Women’s rights made a much needed improvement by: Women are safer from violence and abuse from men. We have the ability to our own achievements,(1) pursue our dreams, own property, marry a man that we actually love and adore or not,(2) acquire our own wealth,(3) and basically be as independent as we choose to be. To be in control of our own life and liberty, isn’t that what everyone wants is liberty?(4) I know that if something happened to my husband I can stand on my own two feet and provide for my family.(5) My kids will be taken care of even if there is no one left to care for them but me. It is not easy to raise children by your self, but can be done. It is easier with two or more people. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a husband who helps you either. It could be your mother or father, grandmother or grandfather, aunt or uncle, sister or brother, as long as everyone agrees what is appropriate in raising a child and of course love them with all our heart. Divorce does not condemn women to poverty and with that statement I have to ask, who is the naïve one?(6) I have worked in construction and it is not hard. I use the same tools that my father uses when something is too heavy, or if I can’t force the nail out I use lever and pulleys. I think you are tripping on your own personal power. I also have had the job offer of an accounting position. In the past was traditionally a man’s position, but in the past every job with income was traditionally held by a man. That is not the case anymore. Now financial positions are held by huge numbers of women.(7) There are more women then men who are graduating from college in my area. So what are you guys doing wrong?(8) Maybe what you are doing wrong is being dumb and controlling. It shows in history with more education people have better reasoning skills. So how have women destroyed the value of an education?(9) I think you mean men have more competition in the work place, and it is too hard. I don’t think women should become dumb just so there will be a lack in people available to work. That’s really dumb. Well, I have to get out of your time warp and get some things done around the house. I hope you continue this conversation with me I really enjoy it and find it amusing. Your openness and willing to speak your mind I find refreshing. I was beginning to think I was the only one not afraid of what others thought. I know what bothers you(10) and there is a middle ground that everyone can be happy with. You just haven’t found it and many others like you. You kind of sound like you are scared of women.(11) I am not finished with this statement either. So stop beating on your chest ape man!(12)
(1) What achievements? There’s a few good women novelists, and that’s about it.
(2) And yet fewer women marry than ever before.
(3) Thus reducing the wage rate and forcing married women who don’t want to work into the labor force.
(4) Then why do women work so hard to eliminate it for everyone? They’re already trying to ban drinking again!
(5) Yes, because widowhood meant immediate death prior to 1973, right?
(6) You are. Read the statistics.
(7) So they are counting the money made by the companies that men started. How very impressive.
(8) Not going into debt and getting a jump on the job market, it seems. Even without those college degrees, men still earn more, remember? And if you’re just going to go work at Barnes and Noble or Starbucks anyhow, what’s the point of getting an English degree first.
(9) Apparently she’s not a Women’s Studies major after all.
(10) It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
(11) Just the strong, independent ones… or so I’m told.
(12) It’s not my chest I’m beating on here.
Notice how she just blithely ignores the fact that I previously responded to all of her points. There’s a single counterpoint, if one can call it that, randomly vomited forth in a stream of what for lack of a better word I shall call consciousness, with no attempt to support any of the assertions contained therein.
Now, I’m sure Sally is a very charming lady, but she might well serve as the poster woman for why I am opposed to women’s suffrage. I daresay she’s converted a few observers too.