Nothing is funnier than watching the Right bitch about independent women. I mean, seriously, if you believe it is about anything else, you are kidding yourself.
Come on, do you really think that single and/or working mothers are a new invention?
Throughout history women had to work and raise their children at the same time. Whether they helped working in the fields or taking in laundry or sewing, women had to work in order to provide for their families.
What do you think peasant women did during the middle ages when their husbands were required by their kings to pick up arms and depart for foreign lands for years at a time and many times not come back? These women didn't have second, secret husbands waiting in the wings to pick up the slack. They made do and did what was necessary to feed their children.
Women during the pioneer days would depart for the wilderness and untamed land with their husbands and children, only to have that husband die on them somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Well, considering that men were probably few and far between, no match.com or even craigslist; did these women kill their children and then themselves because there was no father figure? No. They did what people always do, make do.
Until the hay day of the middle-class, circa 1950, mothers routinely contributed financially to the household; they were maids, servants, laundry women, took in sewing, whatever. Even during the 1950s not all women could afford to stay home and raise children. and make a comfortable home for their husbands.
People who believe that working mothers are the harbingers of societies downfall live in a fantasy world derived from a nostalgic memory of a place in time that never really existed.
So, since working mothers have been around since the dawn of time, it must be something different they disagree with. However, the standard "Wont somebody please think of the children!" line is an easy disguise; no one wants to do bad for their children and their welfare is generally supreme. So, what is their problem?
Their problem is that, once women have choices, they don't have to put up with a man cheating or abusing them. If you can shackle a woman to you, via money or children, you don't have to worry about her getting dissatisfied and leaving. Men can do whatever they want an the women in their lives just have to grin and bear it. Keep women barefoot, pregnant, broke and chained to a stove and all is well in Men-land.
I feel sorry for all the men out there to weak to deal with a strong woman on equal footing. How sad!
If you happen to be one of these men; why are you so weak? Isn't your desire to dominate others only a sign of your own insecurity? Why would anyone in their right mind think that portraying themselves as weak is a selling feature? And what is your excuse for Sarah Palin, etc? Never mind, I don't really care.