I love being a woman and love that my husband is all man.

I’m not much of a dress wearer (was thrilled when they scrapped the girly dress code in high school in the early 70′s), love to mow the lawn and actually enjoyed rebuilding the lawn mower engine when I was a teenager), and can by gosh think my way out of a paper bag when my car breaks down. My dad taught his daughters how to change oil, change a tire, listen to the car for tell-tale “whump whump whump” that may mean a wheel bearing needs attention, or the whine on deceleration that might signal problems with the differential. I know how to use a tow strap.

I N-E-V-E-R wear high heels, my uniform is blue jeans, t-shirt and a pair of running shoes. I love mentoring my son’s robotics team, and by damn, I CAN DO MATH! I had a pedicure 8 years ago, have fingernails that don’t grow for crap, so they are not long and lustrously polished. Acrylic nails? Not for me. I play piano, and teach it. I am never happier than when I’m assembling one of those little shelving units that you get at Home Depot. In fact, the first time I walked into Home Depot, I knew it was time to leave Saudi Arabia and return to America. My husband told his co-workers that I love power tools, and they admonished him to buy me all the power tools I want, so they can borrow them.. If a man ever holds the door open for me, I turn my best smile on him and thank him, looking directly into his eyes so he knows I mean it.

I would have been a horrible mother for a girly girl like my niece. I have hair that does one thing, and I never really got the hang of making it do something else. I have two boys, and was very grateful for that, because I just don’t understand shopping till you drop.

I am an expert seamstress. I made all the girls’ dresses for the choir when I was in high school, made many goose-down parkas, sleeping bags and vests, plus a 3-person backpacking tent with a waterproof rain fly. I’ve also made wedding dresses and tailored suits.

I stared Death in the face when my husband’s heart failed, and fought for his life by learning about alternative medical treatments to help him. recover. I stuck to him like glue whenever he needed hospitalization after his stroke, his septicemia, his arrhytmia and his eventual heart transplant.

I learned how to kill those $**#($%&% roaches that are so abundant in Texas without screaming, because I didn’t want to pass my morbid fear of them on to my sons. I wanted them to be men.

I would still be climbing trees if I had not become handicapped. I wanted a Barbie Doll Dream House when I was a kid, and found Nirvana when I assembled it. After that, I wanted to assemble another one. Playing Barbie with it was really a letdown.

Even with these non-girly traits, I feel like I’m All Woman. Just an All Woman who doesn’t squeal with delight at a pair of shoes that are to die for.

I am NOT a Feminist. I find it boring and stupid. I wear a bra, and thank God I need one. My husband thanks God I need one, too!

I lived for 11 years in Saudi Arabia, and I know for certain what a lack of rights for women looks like.

When one of my husband’s employees announced that his parents had found him a wife, he confided to my husband that his family was very liberal and that they were going to allow him to meet her before the wedding, although they would be carefully chaperoned. They met. He asked his future bride if she had any questions. She asked, “Do you have a nice house?” He said “yes”. She said she’d marry him.. That was their only contact before the wedding. It nearly broke my heart. She had no other vision of her future, or her worth, or her own dreams, than to make sure she would be living in a nice house.

If she wants to go to community college and take a class in Biology or Math, she doesn’t have that option. If she wants to drive, she’ll need to move to another country. If she ever found herself in need of a night’s lodging away from her home, she’d need to check in with her husband, or with a letter of permission from her husband. She can’t get mad and go stay a night alone at the Hotel Sofitel and cool off. She would be considered a prostitute, and kicked out.

Feminism in America is a battle for rights that doesn’t need to be waged. It’s the sort of thing women do because their time is not fully occupied using a wringer washer to launder cloth baby diapers. Yet it is curiously blind to real, bona fide crimes are waged daily against women, in places like Saudi Arabia. Since it is a dishonest movement, I will never be a “Feminist”.

Who might be a real, true feminist? Well, George W. Bush comes to mind. He liberated 25 million oppressed women and girls, roughly half of the 50 million Muslims he liberated by waging the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This would be about 24,999,992 more than ANY effort by “Feminists” in Western countries. Those liberated women, who are now able to run for elected office, would never get those rights from the usual “International Year of the Woman” conferences of the type Hillary Clinton attends.

Sarah Palin is a true feminist. She has risen to high office on her own merits and by her own effort. She didn’t need to prostitute herself to a philnandering husband and work through him to eventually attain personal power. Sarah Palin had personal power when she was a little girl and it just got more noticeable as she got older. She is able to work on a fishing boat with acrylic nails, field dress a moose, and make elitist “conservative” women like Peggy Noonan want to scratch her eyes out because, IMHO, they are jealous that she can do all those things and breastfeed at the same time.

I wish I could be more like Sarah Palin. If she was the face of the feminist movement, I’d be a feminist.

That’s a wise man.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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I had forgotten it … thank you for posting and reminding me of it.

It’s spot-on.

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If you look at the claims of the Dems you’ll see they claim to support individuality. But when it comes down to critiques of day to day behavior you will see they hate individuality and want conformity to be enforced by shame, by peer pressure, and by law. The post McGovern Dems, whom I shall always refuse to call “liberals” because they do not really believe in liberty or individuality, are the most conformist people you will ever meet. Just look at Nancy Pelosi’s house Dems. Not a spine among them when it comes down to the really bad bills.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

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I don’t understand why some try to pretend that we aren’t different. It doesn’t make us lesser.

We want men to be men. Not another version of ourselves. God made us to be different, to compliment each other. We are balanced when we recognize this.

IMO, the Feminists movement did more harm to our culture and accelerated degradation of our society, than anything else. Giving up our femininity, giving away our sexuality cheapens us and coarsened society. Now all of our little girls are to be made into sexual objects for the perusal of perverts/pedophiles.
I don’t blame the men though; how can they be men if we do not act like women?

Another thought, why are the women trying to feminize society and minimize masculinity?

You already have a good start at it. In fact I don’t think there is much you need to add.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

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Tell it, Sister!

The whole idea that women are somehow equal to men leaves men (and boys who watch the men) confused as to what role they play.

Men understand intuitively that it is cosmically stupid to compete for resources with the females of our own species. If forced to do so, our hearts are not in it and we resent having to do it. This makes such competition highly unfair, which then makes things worse. In particular it makes the age-old custom of lifelong pair-bonding a bad deal for men. As anyone in business can tell you, bad deals do not work. In the end you cannot force anyone to perform on a contract in which they are getting hosed. Only mutually-beneficial deals last.

What we see around us is the bad deal not working. To my knowledge there has never been a productive, successful society in which the adult males were systematically estranged from the society’s young. We are at a point now where half the nation’s children do not live in the same house with their biological father. This is how humans who live in bushes organize themselves. I don’t think anyone knows where this goes, but it probably isn’t anywhere good.

I usually use “sneer quotes” around the word “Feminist” because the term has been bastardized by the left. NOW “Feminists” are Faux Feminists. They don’t care about women, they don’t respect women, they don’t wish to empower women; they have a political agenda and that’s all.

True Feminists believe in TRUE choice and understand that women ARE different. In a very good way.

“veils women under a heavy cloth of expectation” is a powerful statement and a great analogy. There is a lot that can be extrapolated from that.

The other comment that caught my eye, your wedding vows. I had the same ones from the Book of Ruth in my wedding…

And I meant to tell you I saw your comment I think in Mailloux’s diary about children, just did not get to get back to this week. We are obviously on the same page: )

Conservatism is the true ideology of equal opportunity.

I saw that and wasn’t logged in at the time. Great Quote!!!!

Not a strong woman, like Sarah Palin and my wife, but a true-blue feminist.

What you leftists have done is prop up barren, wretched, joyless shrews as the paragon of womanhood, and when that notion is finally rejected by the majority of Americans, you change the definition of “feminist” completely.

This isn’t even a nice try, pal.

Now you have a sample set of one. I’ll bet all the people you knew voted for McGovern, too.

Now I assume since you knew enough on how to post here, you’ll also know enough on how to use Google. Or maybe not. Nonetheless, if you go to Google and enter a search argument, you’ll find information! And if you use it for that, you’ll find plenty of examples of feminists who denigrate stay-at-home motherhood.

Just to help you out (because I’m a helpful kind of guy), here’s one: Linda Hirshman:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33291.html

I help them to realize their value in society that they are to work hard and study hard to become whatever they choose to be. That America is great in that it recognizes a problem ie: the vote and fixes it. That no matter what a liberal tells them that if they get up each day and work their hardest that they will get the top pay and the top position that they individually are worthy of. That a job given based on sex or color does not mean you are the best at that job that you are just another affirmative action pick. I want all women to love themselves enough to decide that sex with anyone is when they decide it should happen and NOT because liberalism says you are free to give it away and somehow it empowers you…IT DOESN”T it just allows the old FREAKS like Hefner to have to 19 year olds to get theirs. I help them to understand that a baby conceived is not only theirs to decide what to do with but is also the mans that he is as important to their decision and I want them to know that the baby just might be the scientist who cure’s cancer!

Your idea of a feminist is based on your pathetic liberalism it is NOT what real feminism is. I hold Sarah Palin up to the true ideal of a feminist because she has done everything she wanted in life and she did with her husband and family at her side. You see what you don’t realize and liberals always get wrong is that the WAR was won and now it is time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of that labor but to do that would be the death knell of these old bitter bitties who need to make a buck of off the bones of the picked clean carcass of N.O.W.!

“Feminists got you the vote. They opened the nation’s elite universities to women. They pushed for laws against domestic violence, and to protect women and children from sexual exploitation. They pushed to expanded access to birth control and to increase funding for research and treatment of breast and cervical cancer.”

And promptly after that, they became the marginalized “Women’s Studies Department” feminists of yore who push for copious amounts of government intervention in the interest of “equity” while tarring anyone who disagrees with “choice”, “opportunity”, or any policy espoused by progressives as chauvinists. If your wife doesn’t espouse that brand of feminism, good on her, but “your wife” is not the majority of feminists in public venues. Rather, the view that I’ve expressed is the norm in that group.

Oh and BTW, I stopped caring about what feminists think when they started attacking conservative women who’ve “made it” and holding their fire on progressives who have a history of being demeaning towards women.

Apparently, Susan B. Anthony doesn’t qualify either.

I’m glad you posted too. I can’t type out a whole thing but I totally get what you are saying and I’m glad you posted. It kind of annoys me to the way women will take a stance against feminism in blanket statements but would jump on anyone suggesting their daughters only go to college for anything except teaching or nursing and never leave home until they are married.

Pageants are forums for women to show off their beauty and compete with it. Why do organizations like NOW protest the Miss USA pageant. Here is what you said:

“I’ve never met a feminist who said women can’t wear dresses, or be feminine or sexy. Or that women can’t be hit on or admired for their looks. The notion that feminists are all chubby, humorless, protolesbians in sensible shoes is pure invention.”

HUH????

“Nobody actually cares about your uterus. Feminists care about women being able to have control over their own reproductive systems.”

Hard core feminazi’s liken pregnancy to slavery and advocate that it should be a woman’s choice to kill her unborn child because of that fact alone. Pregnancy is not slavery–that is what our reproductive organs are for, but they seem to lack that understanding.

It is like they take no joy in being a woman–and want to make sure no one else enjoys it either.

You stick with Maureen Dowd, I prefer Sarah Palin.

Just one question – how many children do you have? How many do you and your proud feminist wife plan on having?

YOU’RE DOOOOOMED!!! (And it’s all the Jews’ fault )

But hey, free country and all that jazz.

In their public speeches the gender-quota fascists who call themselves “feminists” praise equality of opportunity and freedom and liberty and every conservative value. But where the rubber meets the road they agitate for quotas that replace equality of opportunity with anti-male bigotry, discriminatory laws that crush freedom, laws and taxes to stop you from driving the car you want where you want to drive it, laws and taxes that punish personal behavior they dislike (such as smoking, or owning a gun), and in divorce laws that punish both ex-husbands and ex-wives with equal poverty, equal misery, and incalculable emotional damage to their children. Feminism is just another current of the Marxist class war intent on destroying society and replacing it with a fascist omnipotent state that shrives all the humanity from men and women and turns everyone into perfected, robotic post-human beings. It is foul beyond measuring and I hate it. You should too.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

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This ain’t a biography for cryin’ out loud.

Man, this post has really brought the trolls out of the woodworks