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Ughhh, my creative mind is losing time. I need to read or something. Iv'e wrote quite a bit of poetry in my journal and Ive been listening to music (which tends to inspire me some) but this work thing is REALLY not propelling me in the direction I would like to take. That can't be helped im sure but all the same it concerns me.
I've been spear-heading some issues I've been afraid to think about.
"It is the essence of femininity to give." Elizabeth Elliot
It really saddens me to see women become selfish, they chase after "their" dreams and then her husband and her children are the ones who suffer. They lose sight of what that quote means. Women were made to care for the people they love the most. Tell me how it is degenerative of the mind to teach your children at home, how is it restricting to love your husband more than yourself to to desire that he succeeds in what he does and to do everything in your power to see that happen?!
On another note,
Read this.
Concept-called-home
Death to materialism
Good grief, what are we coming to?
posted by Erica @ 1:25 PM
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2 Comments:
Obviously, there is nothing wrong with raising children and being their for your husband if you choose to have one. My question is... what does it mean to be a woman? Is it getting married, having children, cooking dinners, cleaning floors, and loving your husband? Is that being a woman? What if a woman desires to not get married; to not have children... is she any less of a woman? Hell, is a man any less of a man if he decides to stay at home and take care of his children, while his wife works and maintains a career? I know plenty of women who have done all of what you've described (minus intensive home-schooling) and have also had careers.
If you want to go by what Elliot says, that "the essence of femininity [is] to give," then what exactly should be given? I think women can contribute to the world in a variety of ways, not the least of which is being mothers, but is doing just that and only that living up to the full potential of their femininity.
There's a reason why women have broken out of their roles as happy homemakers since the nineteen fifties. It's because it didn't work, and it was quietly dysfunctional to families. You need to stop seeing feminism and progressive society as an arrow splitting up the "traditional" home and see it simply as a re-evaluation of women in the world. Feminism isn't about killing gender roles. It's not about wrecking families. It's about realizing that women are capable of anything they want to do, not just what men want them to do. This is what feminism did - it helped women realize their strength, and it gave everyone, men and women, the eyes to see Western binary for what it was and that people don't have to simply fit in the box that society has created for them.
Timothy Leary once said that, "women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." I think that's absolutely true, because feminism isn't about women celebrating becoming "men" in a sense. Feminism a celebration of women, being what they are... women.
I don't think your listening to me....I never said it makes a woman any less of a woman to choose a career over family. Lots of women in the new testament did just that! You should read "let me be a woman" by E.Elliot (or anything by her for that matter) she is a very gifted writer.
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