Mitt Romney's Advice for Recent Female Grads: "Have a Quiver Full of Kids"

[HarveyDarkey]

Don't expect wealth and power, Romney warned the women of the Southern Virginia University's graduating class. Just get married and make lots of babies!



May 3, 2013 |


This week, Mitt Romney delivered an interesting commencement speech to the (very Mormon populated) Southern Virginia University's graduating class. Sharing his secrets for "abundant living," Romney urged the new grads to go out, get married, and procreate like crazy.

'Get married,' he said, and “Have a quiver full of kids if you can.”

Also, hurry. Staying single until your thirties could be a big mistake. A quiver full of kids aren't born over night.

“Some people could marry but choose to take more time, they say, for themselves. Others plan to wait until they’re well into their 30s or 40s until they think about getting married,” he said, “They’re going to miss so much of living, I’m afraid.”

Girls, forget about establishing a career before you get married or have children. Why spend your body's prime child-bearing years working, when you could be breast-feeding on a much smaller salary?

http://www.alternet.org/mitt-romneys-advice-recent-female-grads-have-quiver-full-kids?akid=10396.233459.fnvmIr&rd=1&src=newsletter834730&t=2

[Hekate]

1. Pardon me, but I think I'm going to go throw up now

And Mitt? It isn't morning sickness, it's you.

[silverweb]

2. +1000

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[calimary]

4. Yeah, no shit. +1,000,000

Guess we see how his priorities haven't broadened much. Woman, spread thy legs.

And I love - uh - what should we call it, his concept of collectivism? Quiver full of kids. I suppose that's a corollary to binders full of women? We're all grouped in containers as far as he can see.

[jmowreader]

11. It's from Psalm 127

"Lo, children are the heritage of the lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward. Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them."

Can we call Christianity a religious cult yet? All the signs are right in front of us.

[calimary]

15. They do speak in code, don't they!

[siligut]

19. Mitt's club membership Mormonism, is a cult

And modern Christianity is inching toward qualifying, but they need to increase information restriction, the pain for disobeying and hours spent in devotion first.

As to the sample from bible scripture, the Book of Mormon did derive inspiration from the bible, but the jest is not the same. Mitt is a Christian in the same sense that a satanist is a Christian.

Christians are actually part of our hope in the fight against Mitt and his ilk.

[Control-Z]

5. I haven't been to the link yet.

But I'm thinking this has to be satire? Could he have possibly really said these things?

" Why spend your body's prime child-bearing years working, when you could be breast-feeding on a much smaller salary?"

[Hekate]

8. The entire article at link is not very long. What you quote was the sarcastic comment of...

... the author. Mitt deserves the sarcasm, btw.

[HarveyDarkey]

9. That's just editorial hyperbole by the author of the article.

There's a video of the speech at the link.

[HiPointDem]

3. so mitt's down with the quiverfull movement? good to know he stands with the ultra far right.

[Boomerproud]

6. And don't forget girls, marry a man with money

You don't want to be barefoot AND pregnant do you?

[sibelian]

7. Their minds are plagued with idiotic phantasms.

I now firmly believe that logical thinking should be taught from the age of 7 up.

[Initech]

10. Why doesn't he just go to a Renaissance fair and pay 10 pencance for a turkey leg?

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. here is the actual speech.. As much as I disdain Mitt Romney - I think this author is being caustic

[ellisonz]

21. To be fair, Mitt is saying that men should marry women and have a "quiver full" of children.

It's an enjoyable watch if one is prone to schadenfreude

[LittleBlue]

13. Scary quiverfull math

I watched 19 and Counting, showing a quiverfull family (the Duggars) where the mother has 19 children. Now let's do some scary napkin math.

I will assume that not every Duggar girl will possess the incredible fertility of their mother. That is very unusual even in times when birth control wasn't available. So let's say that every girl is capable of producing 11 children on average. That seems about right assuming every girl will maximize her breeding potential. They take no breaks inbetween pregnancies and use no birth control.

1 Duggar daughter
11 children
11 grandchildren per child x 11 children = 121 grandchildren
11 great grandchildren per grandchild = 121 x 11 = 1331 great grandchildren
Don't go any farther out, it gets really scary past this point. Into the tens and then hundreds of thousands.

So from one Duggar daughter will spring forth 1463 people who could all (minus 1 perhaps) theoretically vote during each other's lifetime. Compare that to the average woman who will have 2 or 3. Let's say 2.5 cubed, which is 15.63. So only around 20 versus 1.4k.

Mathematically this looks like an effective strategy. Even assuming 20% of the Duggar children leave the quiverfull movement, that's still over 800 descendants.

[jeff47]

18. Generally, they aren't able to support breeding that many kids

"Quiverfull" style movements tend to break down in a generation or two generations, as they are no longer able to support that massive number of people.

[SummerSnow]

14. So all women should be like his wife. GTFO

[smirkymonkey]

16. He is revolting.

Any woman who takes his advice is an idiot.

[LeftInTX]

17. Only Mitt would use the term "quiver full"

Makes me think of those old fashioned quiver pens.

[ellisonz]

20. I've never heard of this college.

Mitt must feel very abundant - Barack Obama gets The Ohio State University and Mitt Romney gets a Mormon school that isn't even BYU.