Hey stay at home Moms, cut it out. Get a job. You’re wrecking it for the rest of the women who are out in the real world. Either ditch the apron for the business suit or you’re betraying your sisters. And your sisters won’t be happy.
The New York Times asked Gloria Feldt, the former head of Planned Parenthood, about how women who “flee the work force” impact those who do not.
This is pretty awful…
October 7, 2010 at 4:56 am
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October 7, 2010 at 3:41 pm
When my mom was interviewing after 20+ years out of the workforce people would ask her why she thought she was qualified for a given job. Her response, one that won her several job offers, was; "I've raised six children and none are in jail. There really aren't many skills I can't acquire."
The idea that if you aren't getting a paycheck you aren't working and you aren't contributing to society is just stupid and smacks of all the isms Planned Parenthood and their ilk are supposedly fighting against (class-ism, age-ism etc.)
These people are so utterly perverse as to be laughable if they werent taken so seriously by the NYT et. al.
October 7, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Dear feminists,
Get a life. Get over it.
October 7, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Ummm…This isn't being touted only by PP this time.
The Heritage Foundation has come out in support of anyone staying in the home (e.g. stay at home moms) to have proof of employment in order to receive federal benefits within the past two months.
And you just posted a column by Zombie "This Week in Eugenics" which states that any mom on welfare should be forced to receive Norplant in order not to have any more children on the public dole. I'm sure he would agree with the above statement.
And for those who are not aware of these two affiliates, they're both strong voices in the conservative movement.
Stay at Home Moms, homeschooling families, and anyone who cares enough for their children to sacrifice income in order to stay home with them in the home, are all under threat from both sides at this point in our economic downturn. Just thought I'd point that out.
btw, one of the "federal benefits" includes federal healthcare. Need we review that one…again???
October 8, 2010 at 3:49 am
Patty, could you provide link to heritage foundation report, where you saw that comment? Thanks.
October 8, 2010 at 1:04 pm
PattyinCT: If you had read the Zombie post more carefully, you would have noticed that (a) the suggestion of contraceptive implants in poor people was not made by Zombie, but by two other people, whom he quoted; and (b) Zombie made it very clear that he was against it.
October 8, 2010 at 5:35 pm
PattyCT – See Heritage on full-time motherhood:
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/03/mothers-intuition-trumps-feminist-ideology/
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/1998/05/what-stay-at-home-moms-do
Pax et bonum
October 11, 2010 at 12:32 am
Yeah, whaddya know. From the National Catholic Fishwrap. Who woulda thunk it.
October 12, 2010 at 12:06 am
@Bob
I never said that Zombie was for it, just that Michael Savage was. Please re-read what I wrote for clarity? Thanks
@Anon. I'm not sure if I can get the Heritage back, as I only subscribe to their free newsletter and I don't know if they let "non members" into their archives. But I'll try and see what I can get.