Because We Can

During a press conference for her new movie, Jennifer Aniston announced,

“Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child,”

Hate to break it to her...but women have realized this for some time now...hence the plethora of children currently being raised by single moms in western society.

Now, it may come as a surprise, but I don't intend to spend the majority of this post decrying feminism's destructive attack upon fathers and the nuclear family....destructive as it's been. Nor am I going to spend very much time detailing the appalling manner in which Ms. Aniston has relegated the bearing and nurturing of children to the status of some mundane and inconsequential endeavor ("just to have that child"). Stepping aside from this and Ms. Aniston's despicable, yet entirely too predictable, 'father's are unnecessary' rhetoric, I would like to specifically address her emphasis on what women 'can' do.

Today, women have limitless options of what they 'can' do...which feminists aggressively wield as symbols of female strength and empowerment.

We got it...women can do anything they want.

We can dress in next to nothing and parade ourselves through the streets if we want, we can sleep with as many men as we can fit into a day if we want, we can abort our children or choose to keep them and sue for child support if we want, we can walk out on our marriages if we want, we can have children and condemn them to a life without ever knowing a father if we want...all free from censure because woe unto anyone who dares question, judge or condemn us for our actions.

What a disturbing and shallow thing our empowered, modern day women have become....so consumed with proving what they can do that they've lost all sense of what they should do.

Growing up, even as a small child, I understood that just because we can do something doesn't mean that we should and that to act to the detriment of others was wrong. It's time that women, instead of triumphing over our ability to do anything we want because we can, regardless of its affect upon others, society our even our own souls....start focusing on whether or not we should. It's time to start asking the morally relevant questions....in fact, it's long past time.

The very best possible scenario is for children to be born to parents who want and love them and to be raised with both a mother and a father in the home. A woman should never plan to have children without a father who is actively involved in his/her life because children need a father.

According to the logic of Aniston and her ilk, if a woman wants a baby she is simply entitled to have one. What is intrinsically wrong with this thinking is that it's egocentric and rooted in selfishness....and parenthood, when done correctly, is the single most selfless endeavor a human being can undertake. There is no room for puerile, narcissistic whim when it comes to the caring for and bringing forth of life.

I'm weary of hearing about what women want and what they can do when we should be focusing on what's right, what is best for the whole and for the betterment of society. What does it matter what I want or what I can do if it comes at the detriment of others? Why should an innocent child be forced to pay for the entitlement of women? Why should anyone? Why should marriage and families be destroyed and society subsequently fail all so women are able to prove that they can do what they want?