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By Zack Beauchamp on Dec 7, 2012 at 10:21 am
Fox News has published another sexist op-ed by Suzanne Venker, the author who became infamous for attacking a fictional “War on Men.” In the follow up piece, Venker argues that women are naturally men’s inferiors.
The author believes the crudest of crude gender stereotypes are built into male and female brains, arguing that women “like to gather and nest and take care of people” while men “are hunters: they like to build things and kill things.” As a consequence, she maintains a man’s place is in the office; “his” woman should simply “surrender” to his rule:
Women shouldn’t let their success in the workplace become the biggest thing in their lives. If the ultimate goal is lasting love – and let’s face it: for most people it is – women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. …
Surrendering to your femininity means many things. It means letting your man be the man despite the fact that you’ve proven you’re his equal. It means recognizing the fact that you may very well want to stay home with your babies – and that that’s normal. Surrendering to your femininity means if you do work outside the home, you don’t use your work to play tit for tat in your marriage. It means tapping into that part of yourself that’s genuinely vulnerable and really does need a man – even though the culture says you don’t.
In other words, put down your sword. It’s okay if your guy’s in charge. It’s okay if you don’t drive the car. In fact, it’s rather liberating.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/07/1299611/fox-news-op-ed-says-womens-nature-is-to-be-dominated-by-men/?mobile=nc
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barbtries
(31,311 posts)wtf.
randome
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)needed to tell her how to form this opinion and help her write this.
I think the bible told me so.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)1 Timothy 2:12
I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
kaspar411
(30 posts)Democratopia
(552 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)you learned that too?
Democratopia
(552 posts)1StrongBlackMan
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leftstreet
(40,730 posts)Whenever I hear a man say he 'goes along with' his wife to 'keep her happy' I suspect he actually does it to avoid taking any responsibility, thereby extending his happy adolescence right up to his final nursing home days, where someone will, again, put food in front of him, do his laundry, and schedule his dr's appts
Democratopia
(552 posts)previous poster - when I say "yes dear" I am normally compromising my own wishes.
I once asked my wife to give just one example of when she didn't have her own way, and she could not. Saying yes to cleaning her parents' home most weekends, changing their bed, fixing things for them, taking their trash out, cleaning their floors - mostly my work. Saying yes to the car we bought, how she wants to spend our money. You name it, I let my wife have her own way and it is nothing to do with being immature. Yes I am immature in many ways, but I am also a fair-minded and responsible, caring person. I have cared for my wife after she had surgeries this year. I would rather not have to do these things, but whatever I might be bad at, I am not going to be a bad husband.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)she should be home scrubbing the toilet. 
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)to other labors in man's adventure.
Even though they are too emotional sometimes as the writer from fox has proven.
I bet they might be emotional about this post.
See?
Emotional.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)she proves her point well
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)What she actually said was,
leftstreet
(40,730 posts)Go back to 1950 weird person
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)HG Wells was a male.
Women will follow us in the concept in time travel.. but only if they bring enough shoes.
cyglet
(529 posts)by going for sensitive, kind men?
For shame.
Amaril
(1,267 posts)I'm a woman -- been one for nearly 50 years now -- and I can honestly say that I have never felt the urge to be subservient to a man (or to have one be subservient to me for that matter). I've also never felt the urge to "gather" anything, and while I did experience the urge to "nest" (wild, tireless cleaning tear) when pregnant with my children & near delivery, I also like to "hunt" (not animals, mind you, but I have an investigator's mind - a trait I would ascribe to being more akin to "hunting" than "gathering"
and build things (I've built several furniture pieces with my own two hands).
You know, I really detest women who think they have a right or even the authority to speak for other women. I'd really like to know who she thinks died and made her the expert on what ALL women want or need in their lives.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)ex when he was too drunk to drive, wouldn't give me the keys and drove down US 22 driving west in the east bound lane. She'd find that liberating all right...it would liberate her sphincter muscle.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)your pearls would have been safe and the kitchen would have been cleaned.
I guess you can't make your own decisions which proves her point.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)You are not making any sense.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)All women holds jewels made from the irritants of bivalves.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I think reading anything you post must be monumental waste of time....bye.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Last week they were saying men are merely beasts, led by their hormones and urges and they can't help themselves.
Why would a woman submit to a beast with no self control?
Wouldn't we call her an enabler, a co-dependent, an unstable female?
I am so confuuuuuuused. I think I won't worry my pretty little head about it
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)kestrel91316
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MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Some men "need" to be dominated by women.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)
I don't know what's gotten into me since I joined DU!
Mah mayun is gonna keeyull me!
Shhhhhhh!!!!!
I won't say nuthin!
eShirl
(20,268 posts)
MadrasT
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liberalmuse
(18,881 posts)I think it is disingenuous to men to suggest that in order for them to feel important, and retain their masculinity, they need women to downplay their own strengths. On the other hand, women are made to feel guilty (you know, called, "feminazi's" for desiring independence and not behaving like someone else's entirely fabricated definition of "feminine".
jwirr
(39,215 posts)knew I was missing something.
Archae
(47,245 posts)I think that says a lot.
get the red out
(14,031 posts)Simply idiotic drivel. BOTH people in a relationship need to compromise on things for it to work out. I don't even understand the idea of "sacrificing feminity", what she really means is sacrificing one's individuality and letting someone basically own you. That has not one thing to do with being feminine, whatever that is. People are individuals for God's sake. And I've yet to meet a feminist minded person who was against someone being a full time parent; either mother or father. The TRUTH of modern society is that people don't usually have that option economically.
If she wants to go back to hunter-gatherer times I guarantee she'll break a nail because women worked HARD, everyone worked hard in order for human groups to survive. It is believed that women most likely discovered farming as a way to ensure food supplies. That was a pretty important thing for the human race IMO.
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