I am a Housewife!

Gosh, ladies, I'm sorry I haven't written since the week before Christmas! Things have been so hectic. I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and New Years.

To get back on track I want to post an entry that has been weighing heavily on my heart - the disdain of housewives. What I do (and what many of you may do) is constantly under scrutiny and contempt. We're accused of not having a "real job". We're accused of not being "productive members of society". One word feminists like to use to describe us is "parasite". Sad, huh? About fifty years ago what we do was considered the norm. Young women worked in offices or as nurses until they married and had children. Most families were single-income where the husband worked and the wife stayed home. Here are some quotes I found while searching online.

The first comes from the UK Yahoo Answers board:
"If you choose not to be a member of society - ie. you don't pay taxes or have a job, out of choice, should you therefore also lose your entitlement to tax payers benefits such as the NHS and education?

No cooking cleaning chilcare of your own children is not a "job" - it is a lifestyle choice that other people manage to do as well as working fo rthe community and paying taxes.

Housewives always seem to feel the need to point out all the "important" work they do - yet fail to realise that other people do that anyway - as well as holding down a proper job. Why not just admit that you don't want to work and are content to let other people support you?

Now parasites - yes, I like that word. All housewives are parasites - living off my taxes. They have no right to use any services that we pay for unless they give something back to the society on the otehr side of their doorstep. Charity work? Voluntary work? Oh no, painting toe nails and wearing sparlkly fip flops for the school run is so much more important!!"

From The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan:
"Housewives are mindless and thing-hungry...not people."

Gloria Steinem:
"[Housewives] are dependent creatures who are still children...parasites."

The first one was simply a working mother's diatribe against stay-at-home mothers and how they don't contribute to society, therefore, should not reap the benefits of society. I can excuse the bitter rantings of the discontent. Steinem and Friedan, however, are (in Friedan's case, "were", as she passed in 2006), very well educated and influential women. An interesting thing to note is that Friedan was very active in Marxist circles (and had friends who were investigated by the F.B.I.) as was Steinem. Karl Marx in "The Communist Manifesto" made a huge to-do about how a communist society cannot work if women are living under their husband's leadership, authority and financial gain. Marx also believed women had the potential to be the most effective political agitators. In other words - a woman at home was useless to the communist agenda.

Do not let feminists fool you. Most women who slap the "feminist" label on themselves talk about job equity, glass ceilings, freedom from sexual harassment, reproductive freedom, choices and the right to vote. They are not, however, quite as in-tune with what their second-wave radical feminist icons strove for - a communistic society - as they should be. Their brand of feminism has nothing to do with equality, and everything to do with using women as political pawns. If you brow-beat women enough into thinking they are worthless for having (or even wanting!) marriage and a family as your top goal and priority they are more easily persuaded to busy themselves with radical political activism.

Women who do have children are convinced staying home with them stifles them. Women should not be identified by their children and their children should not be their top priority. This falls into the "it takes a village to raise a child" mentality, which was an African proverb that has been perverted by those who seek a Marxist society. Children being raised, not by their parents, but by the public school system are even more impressionable, thus making it easier to indoctrinate them into harboring disdain for traditional family and gender roles.

Let us praise God daily for our unique femininity. We're the ones who bring life into the world from our womb. We're the nurturers, the educators, the helpers. Let us not be dismayed by how modern society views our role. We are exceptionally important to society when we are raising godly children for His purpose.