Mailvox: a desperate housewife

hb needs to up the dosage to get herself through those tedious days with the kids:

The cost of opportunity would have been the sacrifice of raising healthy, happy, productive young adults. Can you look down on women through out history because they wanted to do right by their children and be a good parent? Do you think your mother was dumb and lacked intelligence because she decided to raise, teach, and protect you instead of making a new medical breakthrough. Hmmm. Who is the group driving women away from having and raising children again? It is you!

First, I congratulate hb for making the right decision to raise her own children instead of continuing on the fast track to Powerpoint mastery. I’m not being sarcastic here, indeed, the probabilities are very high that motherhood will be the one worthwhile thing she will accomplish before she passes from the scene.

What hb and all the idiot feminists forget is that only a very small fraction of a percent of all the men on the planet have contributed anything noteworthy to mankind throughout history – except reproduce. And the number of women who have contributed anything except to reproduce is a fraction of that fraction. How many women have made a medical breakthrough, ten? One hundred? Even if the number is one thousand, that’s next to nothing compared to the billions who have inhabited the planet.

Hb has it exactly backward, which doesn’t speak well for her ability to succeed in the marketplace once her children are raised and she is free to spread her wings and fly… straight into a window would be my guess. I am not driving women away from marrying and having children, that is being done by their mothers, fathers and teachers who encourage them to put their educations and their careers ahead of their family aspirations, by a society that has ensured that the default path is a barren one and by the feminists who consider increasing numbers of drugged-up women slaving away in cubicles all day to be a mark of social progress.

As for my mother, I consider proof of her intelligence to be that she stayed home and raised her children rather than wasting her time and effort reducing the wage rate and performing corporate busy work.