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by Anonymous User on Monday May 14, @04:53PM EST (#1)
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I must say this is the most poorly written article I've seen in a long time. Aside from how oblivious to individual rights and liberties are the people quoted in the article, the author seriously needs an editor. Misspellings and poor sentence structure abound. In the last two paragraphs we aren't even told who is the "she" being quoted (let's assume it's the NOW person). What a horrible read.
Oh, and I am a person, not a wallet.
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The writer of this article should take himself (herself) out back and self-administer a sound flogging. What a load of insulting rubbish.
The writer quotes only feminist sources for reactions to the "study", and trots out all of the familiar myths about "deadbeat dads" and the poor, set-upon women who live in poverty. Of course, the writer never bothers mentioning any statistics surrounding what happens to the financial state of ex-husbands. Actually, it's better that he (she?) didn't: the "mention" would probably have consisted of nothing more than some anecdotes about rich men stiffing their ex-wives.
Throughout this article, the women quoted show little or no concern for anyone other than themselves. My favourite line was, "...most of the mothers in the Women.com survey said they would still have had children even if they had known their marriages were doomed." Oooh. Marvellous. Two-thirds of them think that a one-parent household is not a very good place to raise a child, but would go ahead with having children even if they had known that they would end up in this environment.
This hints at a favourite theme of mine, "Children as lifestyle accessories."
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Oh, and as a final point: do I even need to mention how insulting it is (even to simply quote it from another source) to say that being a mother is the "woman's equivalent" to the military draft? That somehow by being a Mom women are dong their duty to society, while men's duty is to have their brains blown out in some foreign jungle?
This leads in so many awful directions that it's a real chore to list them all. How about the flippant disregard this has for children? Children are no longer a joy and a source of pride. Now looking after children is a "duty" on par with putting your life on the line for your country. The nursery as a war zone, and Mommy is the casualty. How dramatic.
Besides, who could read that and not think that it was nothing more than a sneaky way for feminists to justify sending only men off to be killed to defend the very form of government that allows them comfort and privilege?
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Rationalizing away the feminist debt to men for their service and sacrifice in war is one of the holy grails of contemporary feminism.
One shouldn't be suprized to see, time and again, ideological statements that are morally and ethically indistinguishable from racism, such as, "men send men to war and therefore men deserve what they get." Substitute any oppressed minority group for "men" if the case for the moral indistinguishability of sentiments like this from racism isn't evident.
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