Feminism has devolved into a moronic parody of the women's civil rights movement. ....
Well, Sunni, one of my first internet experiences was on the NYTimes. When I stood behind staying at home to raise my children, I came close to getting kicked off the then-NYTimes Forum by the Feminazis there. It kind of soured me on feminism, but they have the entire USA Education budget behind them now, so if you send your kids to public school, you have a 50-50 chance your daughter will be marrying her girlfriend. To me, that's a red flag against ever becoming a grandmother, because at the same time, the Man-Boy league lockstepped into equal rights and "won" them. That's two red flags that we're gonna be ripe for takeover by anarchists in the next generation or two with the annihilation of heterosexual unions at risk for becoming this society's new alternative lifestyle. Those women treated me like dirt after I defended bringing my own children up. I got rid of tv because of the lockstep society that presently owns Hollywood, the Media, and nearly half of Washington DC. What they're not telling you is the high percentage of Americans who are very disenchanted with extreme Feminism. Most people do not get it about public school. They have to follow politically correct guidelines due to laws that reduce the importance of heterosexual families in public schools. The sad part of that is for some reason, venereal diseases are now invading younger and younger groups of children. Untreated people will be having blind and ill infants with such grave issues health insurance rates will go out of sight. And sick people have to use a lot of mind-altering drugs to escape the pain of modern choices.
Welcome, beautress. I hope you post here a lot. I agree with most of what you say, but as a conservative Christian public school teacher, not all of it. Most conservatives do not understand how hyper-inflated their own talking points about public schools are. Yes, the Dept of Ed has a load of BS they "suggest" we teach. We still have a lot of variables as to whether we want to do that. Or actually do it. Many do not, depending on where you are.
Secondly, I will never understand why conservatives just gave up and ran away. If you read my posts long enough, you will see I....don't. I am a friendly person, but I also do not give up and I stand up for what I believe in. I am IN the public schools for a reason. Why should we just cede them to the Left, for pity's sake. MORE of us need to GO IN. If you're Christian, that's exactly what Jesus did.
Thank you for your honesty, Sweet Sue. My words come from my own experience, as narrow as it is. The schools my children attended were not the same as the schools of my home state, which I cheerfully retired to in 2009. When I was growing up, the public schools I attended started each morning with a prayer and a verse from the Bible. Half the kids in my school lived and worked after school on their family's farm. Now, the school district's farm land is mostly occupied by the George Bush airport. Before my daughter totally shunned me, she screamed her condemnation of me and her upbringing in F-word terms and discredits me regularly on her Facebook page, from what I am told. I've never seen it, just heard descriptions from my family. The last time I visited my son, his husband physically abused his teenage daughter from his first marriage to a woman, which made my husband's thyroid reading go off the charts, so we left the next morning instead of sticking around for more ill health due to all the misogyny we witnessed at their Christmas Eve party and family gathering the night before. His husband's mother, who also attended, died of a broken heart 3 months later. My husband died 3 years later of dementia caused by a childhood injury to his head that didn't show up for 60 years. I know he, too, experienced heartaches over our children's' lifestyle choices. So yes, I have disappointments with Feminists and their comfort with some communities of anti-religion activists, and it's hard for an older lady like me to get a grip on lifestyles we can no longer describe with the adjective "alternative" due to political correctness. I know I have strong opinions that many others to not care to heed. You wouldn't care to be like me with all my personal heartaches and losses. But I will never subject myself to people who have no compunctions about disrespecting a parent with the f-word, which I never heard before the age of 17.