Posted by
Lazlo on Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:53:24 AM
Fury on the Runway
Haven't seen the film, probably won't. But..
For the feminists that think that the role of Mother, and homekeeper amount to oppression and a general waste of intelligence; do these things:
1. Buy a time machine (they're cheap nowadays), and go back to oh, say 1850.
2. Get out of the 'civilized' world of New Yawk and St Looie and get yourself out on the prairie.
3. Spend ONE DAY living the life of an average pioneer woman. This means making edible food out raw materials, making fire, washing clothes without pushing buttons, doctoring humans and animals, sewing, managing play dates with local Tribes, educating little humans, and all the other stuff you can imagine, while the whiskery lout is out digging wells, plowing, building stuff, chasing sullen farm animals around and getting dirty.
Then try it all in 1950 (some buttons included, some animals removed), then come back and tell me that it was not the most demanding, backbreaking, mind numbingly Hard day you ever spent.
Then you will surely attest that without the sheer intelligence, strength, fortitude, and willpower of the little wife on the prairie that we poor men would not only have never left Europe, but that we would never made it out of the Ergaster stage, and a life of scratching oneself in caves would still be the norm.