Posted by
Katy Grimes on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:29:31 AM
Men and women used to have very specific roles in their own households as well as society. And while women did not have the right to vote, women had very specific jobs and expectations.
Knowing the differences in men and women, regardless of vociferous the 20th century women's rights groups and the rise of women who wish they were men, women had a very important place in families and society - even "working" women did.
In the Victorian era, women were very important to the successful running of families. Their jobs included planning menus, the entire social calendar of the family, the decorating and running of the house, the social season agenda, the mixing and successful marital arrangements. It sounds trivial when described this way today, but are we so different?
Today's wives and mothers are really responsible for all of the usual tasks and more; women must hold a job outside the home as well. It's no wonder women are acting out like toddlers today. Women are stressed out and confused with their roles. It is no longer acceptable to just be a wife and mother, or so many women project. Women today are expected by other women to juggle "careers," have children, be world-renowned chefs, superb housekeepers and decorators, keepers of the social calendar as well as subtle guidance counselors and matchmakers to their children.
Ridiculous. Why is it that women needed what men have and more? Thanks to the feminists, women are so stressed out that the offspring are suffering, as is the future of society. Today's kids are as confused as their mothers. Men do not know which way is up - are they men or are they women with their waxings, men's pedicures, hair colorings and Botox injections for puffy eyes. The roles have been reversed in some couples, with women "wearing the pants," and men questioning their manhood.
What will it take to bring society back to the natural roles of women and men. I am the first to admit that I would have fought for the right for women to vote and have a voice. Women obviously needed a voice, and in good families, they had one. But with certain families, women were to be seen and not heard. Today, women are not equal to men, we are ruling everything but not because we have earned the right. Women are ruling everything because men are afraid, legally. When the pendulum swings so far to one direction, it must swing back naturally.
I am waiting for the day when the pendulum is balanced; when men have their rightful and natural place as the masculine head of the family. Men naturally want to protect women and children, and fight for us. Women naturally want to protect and nurture husbands and children. Women care about ambience and decorations, food, music, art, literature and the like. Our men want desperately to shelter us from evil. What's wrong with appreciating the differences between the sexes instead of turning women into men and men into women?