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Category Archives: Feminism

Is This Woman a Stay-at-Home Mom?

Friday, November 11, 2011

 
THE current practice of referring to mothers as “moms” and women at home as “stay-at-home moms” is part of the trivialization of motherhood, as I discuss here. Mommy-ness suggests fun and play. But motherhood is, by its very nature, sacrificial. Even in modern life, the mother is called upon to give up self and die for others.
When motherhood is [...]

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More on Moms, Stay-at-Home Dingbats and Deadbeats

Friday, November 11, 2011

 
MRS. HAYWOOD writes from Indiana:
I just spent a very interesting evening reading many columns on your website. You represent sanity and common sense on the topic of women and work, which is never allowed in mainstream media. 
Just a quick thought/question: Are you as offended by the term “stay-at-home mom” as I am? It seems clearly [...]

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Remaining Steadfast in the Face of Criticism

Monday, November 7, 2011

 
THE HOMEMAKER today, unless she is wealthy, often faces a hostile environment. Not only does society at large continually celebrate careerism and refuse to grant the full-time mother and wife moral support, but friends and relatives may criticize her or refrain from any enthusiasm for her way of life.
At Home Living, Lydia Sherman encourages women at home to turn their minds from all this. [...]

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Female Politicians: Pin-ups and Nice Girls

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

 
LAWRENCE AUSTER writes on the vanity of female politicians:
If you have a society in which men are running things and enforcing male standards of conduct in the public sphere, you can have an occasional woman in high public office and it will not harm the society. But once the appointment of women to conspicuous political [...]

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C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra and the Feminist Lie

Monday, August 8, 2011

 

GREG JINKERSON writes:
In his novel Perelandra, C.S. Lewis provides a splendid retelling of the Eden story, transferring that mythos to the planet Venus. The hero Ransom has been sent there by angelic beings to perform an unknown task related to the fate of mankind. On Perelandra, the true name of Venus, Ransom encounters an inhabitant [...]

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PBS Examines the Southern Belle

Monday, August 1, 2011

 
GREG JINKERSON writes:
My wife and I came across the PBS documentary Southern Belle two nights ago and when I realized what I was watching, namely modern young ladies reenacting antebellum Southern culture in a kind of historical school, The Thinking Housewife blog leapt to mind. What we did get to see of the film was extraordinary. Here is [...]

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More on Non-Maternal Care

Thursday, July 28, 2011

 
KATE writes:
I wanted to make a comment that goes along with the caregiver’s comment in the previous entry, and that speaks to the differences between children who are in day “care” and those who are raised early in the home. It is absurd to me that we are still having this debate. I guess we just [...]

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One Mother Leaves the Army; Another Stays

Sunday, March 6, 2011

 
MELANIE writes:
I’ve been reading your website for about a year now. I came across it at a time in my life when I was struggling with a lot of confusion in my family, as well as with my own conscience. You have been an inspiration and comforting reassurance to the “traditionalist” feelings I’ve always had in [...]

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Mzzzz. and the Fall from Grace

Saturday, March 5, 2011

 
MR. R. writes:
You know, I just realized for the first time in my adult life that I have grown quite accustomed to addressing women as “Ms” in letters and emails, even when I am reasonably sure they are married. I think that has become a convention resulting from feminism, where it MUST NOT be assumed [...]

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EU Bans Sex Differences

Thursday, March 3, 2011

 
THE European Union’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg has issued a ruling prohibiting  insurers from considering sex differences in setting premiums for car, life and medical insurance. Men and women face different life expectancies and different risk factors for auto accidents. The court ruled that recognizing these distinctions constitutes discrimination. Nature itself is discriminatory. You can read about it here and here.

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And, Yet Another Woman Writer Gloats

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

 
DOROTHY writes: 
I read this article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago about a woman writer who happily spent part of her honeymoon alone and it stays in my mind. I cannot stop thinking about it. It is very sad to me. But the woman who wrote it is happy. I am astounded that she [...]

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Trading Safety for Jobs

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

 
BRUCE writes:
It suddenly dawned on me this morning that with the ongoing feminization of the police and military, a watershed has been crossed, a step that demonstrates the profound unreality of modern life. 
How could women ever have gotten themselves to the point where the idea of having large numbers of women working as police and soldiers [...]

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Brett Stevens on the Economic Value of Chastity

Friday, February 18, 2011

 
BRETT STEVENS, at the website Amerika, argues that the loss of chastity as a social ideal is part of a larger denigration of hierarchy. As such, it is connected to economic decline of the middle class. He writes:
Do we want each sexual act to have meaning, or should we remove context? Do we want a nation of equally [...]

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Even in an Industrialized Nation, Americans Said No to Working Wives and Mothers

Friday, February 18, 2011

 
JESSE POWELL writes:
A survey was conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1938 asking Americans if they supported married women working when their husbands were capable of supporting them. A resounding 78 percent said, “No.”
This shows that even after 50 years of married women increasingly joining the workforce and after heavy industrialization of America, public sentiment was still [...]

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A High School Girl Wins

Friday, February 18, 2011

  
 
KAREN I. writes:
I am sending a picture of Cassie Herkelman, the girl who won the Iowa state wrestling match by forfeit. From what I read, another girl wrestled a boy in the same tournament and lost the first match after being pinned in 52 seconds. I also read that Joel Northrup, who refused on principle to wrestle a girl, can [...]

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