Our health is bad, and it's the feminists' fault
Over at LAF (that's Ladies Against Feminism), 17-year-old Elisha Ann Wahlquist tells us why we are all sick, and I bet you can guess whose fault it is. That's right--it's women's fault, of course! Wahlquist's argument is that women working outside the home means women not bothering to prepare proper, healthy meals for their families.
The fact that Wahlquist believes it is the woman's job to prepare meals is too simplistically sexist to even talk about. She also hasn't been taught much about America's recent food history. The women of the 50's and 60's who stayed home and identified as "homemakers" did prepare most--or all--of the meals for their families. They used butter and lard and bacon grease. They fried chicken and served it with grease-filled gravy. They slathered salads with fat-filled dressings and rarely, if ever, served whole grain breads and cereals. In other words, they gave their beloved families enough fat and cholesterol to guarantee heart disease and cancer.
Then there is the matter of Wahlquist's either/or reasoning. I have always worked outside of the home, and I have always found it relatively easy to prepare healthy meals. Could I possibly be the only woman (or man) in America who has mastered this skill?
Of course, the author is an adolescent, and when she goes to college, she may discover new ways to think about feminism. Or not.
From LAF's mission statement:
Of course men and women are different. In some ways, very different. But feminism is about equal rights, not equal hormones, anatomy, neurology, or psychology. LAF opposes social, economic, and political equality for women. However, they do not want to make women into empty-headed ornaments. This is what I suppose we can call post-modern anti-feminism: an acknowledgment that women are not useless and stupid, but that they have a place, and they need to stay in it (except in certain emergencies, as defined by LAF).
The fact that Wahlquist believes it is the woman's job to prepare meals is too simplistically sexist to even talk about. She also hasn't been taught much about America's recent food history. The women of the 50's and 60's who stayed home and identified as "homemakers" did prepare most--or all--of the meals for their families. They used butter and lard and bacon grease. They fried chicken and served it with grease-filled gravy. They slathered salads with fat-filled dressings and rarely, if ever, served whole grain breads and cereals. In other words, they gave their beloved families enough fat and cholesterol to guarantee heart disease and cancer.
Then there is the matter of Wahlquist's either/or reasoning. I have always worked outside of the home, and I have always found it relatively easy to prepare healthy meals. Could I possibly be the only woman (or man) in America who has mastered this skill?
Of course, the author is an adolescent, and when she goes to college, she may discover new ways to think about feminism. Or not.
From LAF's mission statement:
This site is dedicated to the proposition that men and women are not identical creatures. Are we equal in human worth? Yes. Equal before the throne of grace? Absolutely. Equal in dignity? Indeed. But when it all boils down to it, if you insist that "equal" means exactly the same, you will have to fly in the face of biology, historical fact, biblical Truth and just plain common sense.
Of course men and women are different. In some ways, very different. But feminism is about equal rights, not equal hormones, anatomy, neurology, or psychology. LAF opposes social, economic, and political equality for women. However, they do not want to make women into empty-headed ornaments. This is what I suppose we can call post-modern anti-feminism: an acknowledgment that women are not useless and stupid, but that they have a place, and they need to stay in it (except in certain emergencies, as defined by LAF).
posted by Diane at 4:04 PM
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2 Comments:
See, that idea that "equal" in "equal rights" as meaning "exactly the same," that's a way of defining the word that I pretty much only hear from Wingers.
Wonder why that is.
*Cough* Straw man fallacy *cough*
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delagar, at
2:46 PM
Whatever--if women actually took over policing food consumption in their homes, they would be called nags.
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Amanda Marcotte, at
8:01 PM
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