Quote (Skinned @ Jan 12 2016 10:27am)
My family is very non-traditional. When I see people rallying against moving away from the traditional, they are only defending their personal traditional, usually whitewashed and seen through rosy tinted shades. When they say move back to tradition they yearn for a time when husbands could beat their wives, keep their wages, keep them as slaves, kick them out and steal their children, and make them quit their own career development to raise children for some man then be discarded when done for a younger PYT. Women had no say in the social order.
After women got the right to vote standards of living went up, live expectancy has gone up, social services became a thing and social security, medicare, and medicaid all came to form eventually. We've developed into the sole world superpower from a third rate power during WW1. Even in WW2, which was a war of production, we were able to defeat the Axis powers because of our amazing productive capacity, and it is no conspiracy that those factories during that time, on the American and Soviet side, were full of women who had no business making tanks because by nature they are supposed to lounge, shop, and play with pink legos when they were children.
How anti-freedom can you be to cling to tradition so much? Crying the death of tradition is crying the birth of people living as they please and not according to the internalized values of others imposed.
There needs to be a division between the autonomy of the female sex and the family unit, they don't need to be connected at all. The same way that men should see starting a family as a union and equal partnership. Women and men should have freedom, but both women and men should commit to their union before making children. Women, men, trans, w/e if you want to live your life a certain way so be it, but make sure your partner is ok with that life you've chosen before squirting out a few kids. Its honestly alot more about making a conscious decision to start a family unit with a person than being tied to a person against your will. This decision needs to come from people evaluating their futures, rather than winging it after they create the family unit by surprise.
I have no desire to see the traditional housewife role gain ground again, I simply wish to see families that have a unified pair of parents both overseeing their child's development. But as i said that involves an amount of planning, that most people these days cannot fathom, and requires a complete meta shift in secondary education to have any real effect.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Jan 12 2016 10:38am