Nadiine #fundie

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As I said, if God put women to work in the trenches & put
Adam in the home with a pink apron on, they'de of been
whining and moaning that they didn't have the cushy
house job and take that over instead.

Either side wouldn't be ok for us and that's becuz it's
put into our nature that we want what the man has.

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old comment by Sarah

If pink aprons came with the sort of social and political power men experienced, you can sure bet we'd be crusading in the streets for aprons. Really, the main factor is--as stay at home dads agree--free choice. If pink aprons are equally respected for the work they do as any other profession (and raising the next generation is definitely important to the continued functioning of the human race), you'll soon find more and more men who want to do it, and if women in professions other than pink aprons are respected, they'll also contribute to society.

(Also, trenches? Of course the soldiers--and civilians--who have died in warfare deserve great honour. However, somehow I doubt that men in your neighbourhood are in any danger of getting conscripted to fight in trenches. Don't bring up these minority examples today to prove your case. Men as a class are not oppressed. Women involved in warfare also suffered during times of trench warfare.)

Some people enjoy housework, some people don't. Some people enjoy carrying big guns and knowing how to defend themselves, some people don't. Some of these people are male and some of these people are female, and anyone not allowed for entirely arbitrary reasons to do a job they want to do has every reason to complain.

old comment by Cassandra

> Either side wouldn't be ok for us and that's becuz it's put into our nature that we want what the man has.

Rubbish. Everyone has a desire to do something that they feel they are most comfortable doing.

If you have set, defined gender roles, you will - as you so eloquently expressed - have people who are uncomfortable with being in those fixed rules, no matter how you mix them up.

In other words, the whole sticky problem you're imagining is based on the faulty premise that gender roles are necessary to begin with. If you don't have them, you have just a bunch of people trying to do their best in whatever way they can. To me, that doesn't sound like a too complicated thing to grasp, but apparently a few people still have problems fully understanding this.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

"if God put women to work in the trenches"

Okay, so men went to war in 1939-45. But if it wasn't for women working in the factories & production lines building tanks, planes & other vehicles, nor making guns & ammunition, then the Allied war effort would've ground to a halt. The Nazis would've won WWII, and our world would be very different. And you most probably wouldn't exist, Nadiine.

You owe your freedom (certainly to spew your bullshit), and mayhaps your very existence, to the vital work done by women (even in WWI; their contribution changed things for them as a result).

tl;dr: Some women want to be housewives. Some want to run companies. Choice. Ever hear of the concept, fundies?

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"Cushy" house job? You mean the job that involves you running like a nut from store to store to buy groceries or supplies, running like a nut around the house vacuuming and mopping and cleaning and ironing and cooking and doing the laundry and the dishes, taking care of the family pet, calling the plumber or the electrician or the school PTA or the gardener or heaven knows who else, taking care of the kids while the husband's away, making sure they get to school on time, and cleaning up their mess, all while trying to find the time to cook dinner in time so that Daddy Dearest can come home and instantly have his dinner ready on the table as a "reward" for enduring his job for the day? THAT cushy job?

Nadiine, you are an ignorant twit.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

"As I said, if God put women to work in the trenches & put
Adam in the home with a pink apron on, they'de of been
whining and moaning that they didn't have the cushy
house job and take that over instead."

And if in WWII, women hadn't worked in the factories making vital war materiel - guns, tanks, vehicles, planes, ammunition, and in the shipyards; certainly on the farms, producing food to keep our troops & populations going, you'd be living in a very different world today, Nadiine. Indeed, you probably wouldn't exist.

Three Words, pal: Rosie the Riveter.

The fact women did that important work, thus ensuring the Allies won WWII, therefore proves you, the Bible, and God wrong.

Womens suffrage*, and equal rights, ensured (and to this day) our freedom and democratic rights. Equality for women today is a small price to pay for their mothers' & grandmothers' life- & world-saving work 66 years ago.

*- Even for their work in WWI, meant that the establishment had no choice but to give women the vote.

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