| | Hong wrote, Pray, Bill, who will liberate women from domestic servitude? When women are encouraged to pursue "careers commensurate with their talents and abilities", who will be nursing babies, changing diapers, cooking meals, and washing dishes? Or perhaps you think all these domestic chores can somehow be done by themselves? Or that as soon as a baby is born, he can somehow raise himself to become an independent human adult? If a woman chooses a career that is incompatible with motherhood, then if she is rational, she won't have any children that need raising. Of course, she can choose to become a mother and a raise a family, if she wishes, which is a career in itself if done properly, and then when her children reach an age when they can be relatively self-sufficient, choose a career outside the home. My own mother did that, and this was back in the '40's, long before women's lib.
Nothing in what I wrote suggests that there is anything wrong with a woman's assuming the role of motherhood, if that is what she desires. The point I was making is that women shouldn't be confined to that role by the assumption that that's all they are fit to do, a view that is common in the Middle East, and used to be common in this country. And I see from your profile that you don't have any child. Gosh, maybe I need to run out and have one, just so I can speak authoritatively on this subject! Hong, are you serious?? What does that have to with the price of tea in China?
- Bill
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