True Woman

I occasionally happen across things on the web that I find rather refreshing; sometimes, even shockingly so. The following, I actually I picked up on feministing.com. Surprisingly, I've found that website to be very useful in garnering information. Of course, I work on a system of opposites.....generally everything they hate I love and vice versa. Take for instance, the 'True Woman Conference' and 'True Woman Manifesto'.

The 'True Woman' is an impressively large number of Christian women who have banded together in support of Biblical womanhood and in opposition of contemporary womanhood and feminism. Granted, their manifesto and views are not one size fits all, as they are extremely religious, but they place great emphasis on how wonderful and fulfilling it is to be a loving wife.

Their manifesto, found here, http://www.truewoman.com/assets/files/TW_Manifesto.pdf, was introduced in early October to a group of more than 6,000 women and they are currently seeking 100,000 signatures.

At their website, http://www.truewoman.com/, one can find various articles and information describing their beliefs and goals....any one of which would be sufficient to give your average feminist a coronary.

Here's a good one.....

http://www.truewoman.com/?id=361

15 Ways to Please your Husband

By Barbara Rainey

Romans 15:2-3 tells us, "Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. For even Christ did not please Himself . . ."

Who is your closest neighbor?

Your husband.

How can you edify (build, improve) your mate and thereby enhance his self-worth? By discovering—and doing—what pleases him.

If you are creative, pleasing your mate may be a natural part of your personality. But a less creative person may need some coaching in becoming a partner pleaser. And all of us need an occasional cue card to remind us to
reach out.

Here are a few ideas:

1. Write him a letter and send it to his office, or put a love note in his lunchbox or briefcase.
2. Prepare his favorite meal.
3. Arrange an evening out for just the two of you.
4. Wear his favorite dress with your hair done the way he likes it.
5. Purchase something small and frivolous for him that he won't buy himself.
6. Give him a nicely framed picture of yourself, or of you and the children, for his office.
7. Surprise him with an all-expense-paid trip to do something he likes, such as golf, fishing, or hunting trip.
8. Put the children to bed early and prepare a candlelight dinner.
9. Do something that especially pleased him when you were dating.
10. Read Scriptures and pray with him regularly.
11. Take walks together.
12. Keep your junk out of the garage.
13. Greet your husband warmly after work.
14. Wear his favorite negligee or buy a new nightgown to add sizzle to your evening attire.
15. Clean out the car for him.

Sometimes the smallest gestures can make the biggest difference in your marriage.

Pick out something you haven't tried before; don't give complacency a foothold in your marriage relationship.

Amazing.

What are these women thinking? Pleasing their husbands? Don't they know that feminism has fought long and hard for them to have the right to mock, malign, take for granted and generally mistreat their husbands?

Some other great articles to be found on their site, which are just too long to post here, include, '30 Day Husband Appreciation Challenge' (and yes, it is exactly what it says it is, a thirty day guide on how to show your husband on a daily basis how much you appreciate him and all he does). There are also articles on liberating yourself from feminism, on virtue and on femininity.......truly, a feminist's nightmare.

Now, I'm sure that feminism's outlook on these women and their movement is that they are brainwashed or in possession of poor self-esteems, masochism or a deep-rooted hatred of self.

Why, we must ask, is it never o.k. for a woman to care for a man? Men are supposed to care for women; to woo and romance them. Society says that a man's life should revolve around catering to the woman in his life, but should a woman to strive to please the man in her life.....that is oppression.

Kindness, benevolence, charity, selflessness, compassion....these are the attributes that cause a woman to want to please her husband. They are not actions of the oppressed but those of a kind, generous and loving heart.

Feminism would have us believe that by being a good person, particularly by being a good wife, women effectively shackle and enslave themselves. Feminism's goal is to divide men and women, to maintain an aura of distrust, bitterness and competiveness.

I, for one, find it very refreshing to see women who have rejected feminism speaking out and proclaiming that not only is it o.k. to be a good wife, to love and care for our husbands, but that it is a joy and a blessing to do so.

Infanticide of Male Babies in Papua New Guinea.....Men's Fault

I imagine most of us are aware of the shocking and horrific actions of the women of Papua New Guinea, who have decided that their only option to fight the tide of tribal warfare is to slaughter all male babies at birth, which has apparently been taking place for the last ten years.

The following is an excerpt from a news story which can be read in it's entirety here,


Male Infanticide in Papua New Guinea

The Papua New Guinea jungle has given up one of its darkest secrets - the systematic slaughter of every male baby born in two villages to prevent future tribal clashes.

By virtually wiping out the 'male stock', tribal women hope they can avoid deadly bow-and-arrow wars between the villages in the future.

'Babies grow into men and men turn into warriors,' said Rona Luke, a village wife who is attending a special 'peace and reconciliation' meeting in the mountain village of Goroka.

Slaughter: The Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands where it has been claimed women in two villages killed all their male children for a decade to prevent tribal warfare

'It's because of the terrible fights that have brought death and destruction to our villages for the past 20 years that all the womenfolk have agreed to have all new-born male babies killed,' said Mrs Luke.

'The women have had enough of men engaging in tribal conflicts and bringing misery to them.'

The sensational claims recall the Biblical story of the Old Testament pharaoh who ordered all midwives to kill Israelite baby boys because he wanted to ensure there were never enough young men to fight in an army against the Egyptians.

Mrs Luke said that the village women agreed that if they stopped producing males, allowing only female babies to survive, their tribe's stock of boys would go down and there would be no men in future to fight.

A resident of Agibu village, Mrs Luke said she did not know how many male babies were killed by being smothered, but it had happened to all males over a 10 year period - and she suggested it was still happening.

Needless to say, my reaction to this has been one of complete and utter horror. It's a normal response; a response that I would expect each and every one of us to have......unfortunately, that is just not the case.

Here are some comments from women who have responded to this repellent act of evil.

From the link I posted above,

*In any conflict, it's always the women and children who suffer through no doing of their own. And when everything has been ruined, and the men killed, they have to pick up the pieces and restore everything. They must have really had enough to kill their own children like that


*To feel that a group of humans had to go to these lengths is unimaginable

*It's so sad that the women from both villages had to come to this terrible arrangement. I hope peace comes to them before any more lives are lost.

*The men have a great time, it seems, being men and fighting other men most of the time. I'd bet they are as happy as Larry and feel great.
Sounds like Red Bull heaven.
As usual, the poor wives and female relatives bear the burden and aftermath of boys being boys

And, from the website, 'The Women on the Web'

*These women are losing their sons either way. In war, they raise them for many years only to see thelm slaughtered. While I don’t approve of infanticide, I can see how their desperation would make it seem as if they must shock their society with their decision to stop the suffering at birth. How else can they get the attention of their leaders and the men who insist on warfare as a way of life?

*How sad to get to a point as a society that you believe that the only way to stop the warring factions is to deprive them of the warriors. Perhaps they might want to swap the Chinese for the girls.

*Women are not perfect as we all know but war is a by product of men and their pride, testosterone, etc. I have long said if you want peace in the middle east men must be taught their place which would be to sit down, follow 3 steps behind their women and keep their big traps shut.

Two things stand out quite clearly from the comments of these women....A) It is, unsurprisingly, all the fault of men that the women of Papua New Guinea have been engaging in male infanticide for the last ten years and B) the REAL victims here are not the untold numbers of innocent baby boys who have been slaughtered, but the poor women who have apparently been forced to take such extreme measures.

I'm sickened beyond words that there are actually people who would attempt to justify such evil. There are times when I read things so horrible that I actually find myself wishing that I could somehow excise myself from humanity.....this would be one of those occassions.

The Fallacy of the Oppression of Women

This may feel like I'm repeating myself.....but after spending several hours doing additional reading on genocide in Darfur, Ruanda, Sudan.....and then spending a bit of time browsing feminist websites and hearing all about the woeful plight of western women at the hands of the terrible 'patriarchy'.....I just need to vent.

It never ceases to amaze me the way feminists continue with their assertions of the oppression of women in western society. Western women are not oppressed; they are the exact opposite of oppressed. I'm sure some will take issue with this, but I submit that women are not specifically oppressed anywhere.

Now, no need to start throwing out horror stories and statistics from Islamic and third world countries, I do not suggest that there are not places in the world where women live difficult lives and are subjected to horrors that us, sheltered and pampered western women, could never dream of.....My point is that anywhere in this world where women are subjected to significant evils and cruelties, men are subjected to horrors that are AT LEAST of equal magnitude.

I know I've expressed this before, but every time we hear of the atrocities women have suffered in the midst of civil wars and conflicts; being raped, going hungry, having their children ripped from their arms, their homes and villages burned.......there's a reason these stories are always told by women and it's because they're generally the only ones left alive. Typically the only survivors to bear witness to the atrocities are women because all the men have been tortured and killed and lie rotting in a mass grave somewhere.

Any place on Earth where life is cruel, it is generally at least as cruel to men as it is to women. Men are always the ones to fight and the ones to die. I applaud anyone's efforts on the behalf of oppressed people, but I'm disgusted that the only emphasis I generally hear placed upon this suffering is on behalf of women.

The oppression of women, as something that is separate and stands out from the general human condition of that specific place or time, is a myth.....but here's what really gets me......There's veritable genocide taking place in the far away reaches of our world. Villages are being burned, all the men and boys rounded up and murdered, women raped and children dying from malnutrition.....but I'm supposed to care because a woman got called 'honey' or because road signs say 'Men At Work'?

It's an interesting observation.....generally, once the feminist arguments of oppression in western society have been disproven, feminists will turn to their base argument about the oppression of women in OTHER parts of the world. Obviously I've voiced my feelings about the oppression that allegedly only affects women, but I still have to ask.......what is your typical feminist doing for these women who really are suffering? Most feminists I know are busy worrying about glass ceilings and abortion rights and complaining about how 50 some odd years ago women were expected to (gasp) be good wives and mothers, taking care of their homes and children while their husbands went off to work.

Perhaps feminists should consider taking their collective abilities and efforts and focusing them on places where people actually ARE suffering, and, just maybe, upon doing so, they should consider placing equal emphasis upon the suffering of ALL people. I know....one can dream.

The Truth About the 'Wage Gap'

Thanks to AKKUS on Antimisandry.com for this......

Be sure to read this article in it's entirety, it's well worth it......I'll just be posting a portion here.

Without further ado.....the truth behind the wage gap,

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo160.html

Men go into technology and hard sciences more than women.
Men are more likely to take hazardous jobs than women, and such jobs pay more than cushier and safer jobs.
Men are more willing to expose themselves to inclement weather at work, and are compensated for it ("compensating differences" in the language of economics).
Men tend to take more stressful jobs that are not "nine-to-five."
Many women prefer personal fulfillment at work (child care professional, for example) to higher pay.
Men are bigger risk takers than women, in general. Higher risk leads to higher reward.
The worst working hours pay more, and men are more likely to work these hours than women.
Dangerous jobs (coal mining) pay more and are more male dominated.
Men tend to "update" their work qualifications more than women do.
Men are more likely to work longer hours, and the pay gap widens for every hour past 40 per week.
Women are more likely to have "gaps" in their careers, primarily because of child rearing and child care. Less experience means lower pay.
Women are nine times more likely than men to drop out of work for "family reasons." Less seniority leads to lower pay.
Men work more weeks per year than women.
Men have half the absenteeism rate of women.
Men are more willing to commute long distances to work.
Men are more willing to relocate to undesirable locations for higher-paying jobs.
Men are more willing to take jobs that require extensive travel.
In the corporate world men are more likely to choose higher-paying fields such as finance and sales, whereas women are more prevalent in lower-paying fields such as human resources and public relations.
When men and women have the same job title, male responsibilities tend to be greater.
Men are more likely to work by commission; women are more likely to seek job security. The former has more earning potential.
Women place greater value on flexibility, a humane work environment, and having time for children and family than men do.