tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post3471721550587631961..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Deconstructing FatherhoodRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-8050718148073857492009-05-19T00:17:10.422-04:002009-05-19T00:17:10.422-04:00False dilemma, sez I.
I stayed at home when the b...False dilemma, sez I.<br /><br />I stayed at home when the boys were small. The wife had a more viable long-term corporate career to press. Me, I can do whatever I need to do to make bux. Computers, construction, music, consulting, writing, whatever. <br /><br />That's what I taught my young men, and they learned how to create. You don't get that by screwing around with "roles" and who should do what.<br /><br />"Production is the solution to the problem of survival" --Ayn Rand<br /><br />That's something that females and males both can be good at, without sacrificing what it is to be masculine or what it is to be feminine.<br /><br />And to hell with who should do what, based on gender. That's a game for losers.<br />Cooperation, respect, and loyalty go a lot farther than rules. If a task is something only one gender is capable of doing--at all--then that's who gets it. So around here the males do the heavy lifting. Dad does dad stuff, and Mom does Mom stuff. But chores are just chores, and roles ...they're for the theater.K~Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-55972713053973259552009-05-18T22:11:00.000-04:002009-05-18T22:11:00.000-04:00It's not a family without a father. Everything els...It's not a family without a father. Everything else is just damage control. Patriarchy is the sine qua non of civilization:<br /><br />http://www.fisheaters.com/garbagegeneration.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-79144830515068851522009-05-18T21:42:00.000-04:002009-05-18T21:42:00.000-04:00Why not denigrate single motherhood?
Praising it a...Why not denigrate single motherhood?<br />Praising it as some kind of sainthood has just led to more of them...<br />The problem is that the sentence "We're denigrating single motherhood as a model, not single mothers as persons" is too complex a concept for leftists to grasp. Half of them just assume it's all personal moral righteousness about damning sinners, and the other half assume we're just fickle or kidding and that we're really actually secretly praising single motherhood. Depends on which half of the sentence they comprehend (which is already asking a lot for leftists).<br /><br />But neither praise nor denigration has made any improvement to the inadequacy of the single-mother-model for raising kids into productive members of society. Sure there are anecdotal triumphs of single mothers, but the statistics imply otherwise.<br />I say if the quality is pretty much set, we might as well work on the quantity. Heck if single mothers were REALLY rare, there might even be enough charity to go around to have an impact on their success average.Captain Obviousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-28391743786344544082009-05-18T21:41:00.000-04:002009-05-18T21:41:00.000-04:00"God forbid the sad conditions of the Carter Admin..."God forbid the sad conditions of the Carter Administration return to afflict our military like that again. "<br /><br />Ummm...<br />Have you heard of "Stop Loss" ?<br />Surely you could not be that oblivious...Young 4-Eyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04159195318322896154noreply@blogger.com