{"id":1884,"date":"2005-10-14T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2005-10-14T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T22:29:11","slug":"friday-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Friday Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since it’s Friday and I haven’t blogged in ten days, I’ll just give you a few little things here and there to look over during the weekend. First off, Jill over at Feminist has posted<\/strong><\/a> this letter<\/strong><\/a> from the fervently Christian Jennie<\/em>, who apparently was overwhelmed by the outside world while attending college, ever so far away from daddy<\/em>. I seriously doubt all young Christian women “suffer” Jennie’s kind of experience while attending college, nor do I believe that being a Christian woman in the big-scary modern world equals mental anguish. But her letter made me giggle and snicker.<\/p>\n

[…]This problem is particularly acute with Christian women, since feminism has slowly but surely crept into the church and stolen our hearts while we were not feeding them with God’s precepts and commands. So many families believe that a young woman, like a young man, is “free and independent”\u009d at age 18 or age 21 and should leave home to strike out on her own. This is in total opposition to God’s teachings.<\/p>\n

[…]By the time I graduated, I was disillusioned and thoroughly brainwashed into thinking I was going to have to fend for myself in the world.<\/strong> (emphasis mine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(violins playing) Oh the horror (rolls eyes). Personally I can’t wait until May of 2008, and then shipping off to grad school. But that’s just me.<\/p>\n

[…]His Word is true and pure, and we cannot go wrong if we follow Him! Starting in the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy), we see that God made woman for man. As much as the feminists hate the idea, it is true. Conversely, man was made to protect, cherish and nourish the woman. Men who are not doing that and are not loving their wives as Christ loved the church are covenant-breakers. Women who refuse to stay home and obey their fathers or husbands are also covenant-breakers. They are inverting God’s created order, which is God-Man-Woman-Animals.<\/strong> (emphasis mine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(snickers) Wow, my resolve to complete college, go onto grad school, devote pretty much all of my time to my career, and die a spinster is now stronger then ever. And the Great Chain of Being<\/em>? Puh-leeze. Again, I doubt all young twenty-something single Christian women endure this kind of psychological and spiritual….uh, “trauma”(?) while attending college, and have this bleak outlook on life outside of daddy’s (and the hubby’s) home. Still this is both depressing and hilarious to read. Next, the American Family Association is pissed at American Girl and Girl Inc. for teaming up together<\/strong><\/a> recently in their “I Can” band campaign<\/strong>, <\/a>since Girl Inc.<\/em> is “pro-abortion” and “pro-lesbian.” Yes, Girl Inc. is pro-reprodcutive-rights<\/strong><\/a> and provides resources for sexual orientation issues<\/strong><\/a> Yep, Girl Inc.<\/em> will turn little girls into ‘aborting Sapphists.’<\/p>\n

[…]The problem here is that Girls Inc. has on their webpage a statement saying they particularly support abortion and a girl’s right to abort an unwanted baby. They were quite clear about their support for Roe, so there is no mistake or room for confusion on that count. Additionally, Girls Inc. supports contraceptives for girls.<\/p>\n

They also support and offer resources encouraging lesbian and bi-sexual lifestyles, actually offering resources for girls. One of their publications states, “The emergence of a lesbian identity is an ongoing process, rather than an event.”[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jessica over at Feministing has her own little commentary<\/strong><\/a> on this. I should buy one of these bands just to piss of the AFA. Now onwards to BrutalWomen who has wonderfully gutted<\/strong><\/a> this usual crap<\/strong><\/a>, written by WorldNetDaily<\/em> commentator Vox Day<\/em> (his blog is Vox Popoli<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

Is motherhood instinctive or learned behavior? Both religion and science tell us that it is instinctive, much to the distaste of the feminist ideologists, who have never been overburdened by a solid grasp on either. But one need only watch the way in which a young girl mothers her stuffed animals to see the maternal instinct at work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow! This must mean my three-year-old nephew is Transgender because he loves and cuddles all over his stuffed animals, and even plays with his cousins’ Barbie<\/em> dolls. But I’m sure with this guy’s vast knowledge<\/em> of all that is Human Nature and Evolution, he must<\/em> have a bullshit<\/del> an explanation for my nephew’s behavior.<\/p>\n

[…]And a woman foolish enough to wait more than two decades before attempting to have children has no one to blame but herself. As for the likelihood that the technological future will eventually solve such problems, it is worth noting that no society that possesses artificial wombs, robot sex dolls, multiplayer video games and 24-hour sports networks is one in which men are likely to show a tremendous amount of interest in relationships or the opposite sex.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, as we have not yet reached Nerdvana, there are a number of steps that a woman whose priority remains marriage and children can take in order to happily achieve those goals:<\/p>\n

Don’t engage in casual dating relationships after 18. They’re fun, and they’ll also prevent you from pursuing more fruitful relationships.<\/p>\n

Make those potential long-term relationships your top priority. If you put college or your job first, there’s a reasonable chance that a job is all you’ll have at 40 … and 60. Consider the president’s new Supreme Court nominee. The unmarried and childless Creepy McCrypto is on the verge of becoming one of the two most powerful professional women in the country “\u201c does she really represent the ideal American woman?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCrypto?! WTF!<\/p>\n

Settle earlier rather than later. I can’t tell you how many women I know who blew off good men in their late teens and early 20s who now regret doing so. Those who are not still single at 35 are now married to men generally considered to be of lower quality than the men they spurned before. Remember, your choices narrow as you get older, while men’s choices broaden.<\/p>\n

Let everyone know that marriage and children is your ultimate goal. Too many women, fearing the wrath of the Sisterhood, secretly wish for them while publicly and piously professing feminist-approved cant to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Bait-and-switch doesn’t work. Unlike their female counterparts, men who say they don’t want to get married or have kids usually mean it. Play that game and he’ll be perfectly justified in dumping your dishonest posterior despite your time-investment in him.<\/p>\n

Don’t hesitate to end relationships that aren’t leading toward marriage, or with men who are less than completely positive about the near-term prospect of children. If he hasn’t proposed in 18 months, he has no intention of doing so. Cut your losses. Most men know how to string women along and know they’ll have no problem replacing you when you finally call their bluff. Never confuse the masculine desire for conflict avoidance with malleability.<\/p>\n

Shed your man-hating friends, as well as those who buy seriously into the Equalitarian dogma. Misery loves company and miserable women like nothing better than to make everyone within a five-mile radius miserable, too.<\/p>\n

Be brutal when assessing the men who are interested in you. Too many women make the mistake of looking only at a man’s desirable traits and ignoring his weaknesses early on. But it’s not the first kiss that matters “\u201c it’s the happily-ever-after part. The way he treats others is the way he will eventually treat you.<\/p>\n

If you want the odds of easily bearing healthy children to be in your favor, set a goal of marrying by 25. You can always go back to school, you can’t go back in time.<\/p>\n

Remember that love is a choice, an action and a commitment, it is not a feeling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know I am very glad<\/strong> that I do not measure up to this guy’s perverse standards of the “ideal American women,” and my goals in life are nothing–at this time–in the least bit close to what this guy is preachin’ all women should do. Yeesh. And now for some commentary on Harriet Miers (not “McCrypto”) by BitchPhd<\/strong><\/a> to top it off;<\/p>\n

But I am wondering if, on the contrary, it might not be the case that an true believer who isn’t a great legal mind–which is what I suspect Miers is–might not be far more dangerous, precisely because she will have the power to rule without the intelligence or background to respect either the precedents or the consequences that form the context for her ruling. Also, in terms of preparing cases to go before a court, if you know how the judges you’re presenting to think, and you also trust that–whether or not you like the way they think–they have a judicial philosophy that is, at least, consistent and rigorous, then you can prepare arguments to appeal to that. If you’ve got someone who, as Miers is reported to have done, will generously agree to meet with people she disagrees with, listen to their arguments, and then simply dismiss them by saying that she doesn’t agree–without giving you anything to go on about why she doesn’t agree, or how to address the premises she uses to form judgments with–then there’s nowhere to go. I very much fear that, as a judge, Miers will play the role of the fundamentalist you argue with about evolution or feminism or the ACLU, someone who no matter what evidence you present them with, simply says, “no, those things are wrong and evil because I believe they are.”<\/p>\n

And I think that having someone in power who is not amenable to reason is very dangerous indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m not exactly slap-happy about Miers’ nomination but “McCrypto?!” Whatever. Anyway enjoy your weekend, because I won’t. Damn midterms are next week so I will be glaring at textbooks most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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