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Bettie

(19,909 posts)
9. Here's the thing
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 06:03 PM
Sep 2025

most women have, from childhood, seen dysfunctional marriages.

They have seen that what usually happens is that when children come in, Dad is Mr. Happy Fun time and Mom is the one who does all the day to day stuff.

They've seen ugly divorces and domestic violence, and many women have been sexually assaulted as well.

Why would that make women want to marry? Why would it make them want to have children?

Some women want kids. Some don't.

People who don't want kids shouldn't have them, its not fair to them or the kids.

People who do want kids should do that, but with the awareness that being a parent is brutally hard sometimes, especially in our society where there isn't a real safety net if things go wrong.

I know a LOT of right wing families.

Almost all of them have dads who come to sportsball practice and talk about "babysitting" sometimes. They make jokes about "my wife's kid(s)". Their lives are not impacted a lot by kids, meanwhile, their wives usually work a full-time job, take care of 100% of the household chores, and deal with all of the kid things as well as the sexual expectations of their husbands.

Gee Maga men, wonder why women aren't all that interested in you.

I've been married to my DH for 36 (almost 37) years. We have three boys, 23, 22, and 17 (today!). When the oldest was in first grade, the teacher was talking about household chores and they asked questions:

Who does the cooking? Mom

Who does the cleaning? Mom

Who takes care of the kids? Mom

Well, my kid's answers were: Both parents for the first three.

Then they asked: Who does the dusting? Everyone said mom, except my beloved child who said "What's dusting?".

Long winded way of saying WHY would anyone want to marry a right wing man who thinks he's a king?

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