Kindness and the Golden Rule goes a long way in a marriage.
Need to Know
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
But but but, I was told it was only through Feminism™ that women could ever begin to think about being equals and partners with their husbands…
Josh:
Feminism is telling men: “No man should be saddled with children,”
I do know couples who spend the night in bed enjoying each other’s company.
God bless them.
Saint Paul said: “Husbands love your wives. Wives be submissive to your husbands.’
Feminism grabbed the second part and said: “Hell No.” missing all the joy of married life and friendship.
Feminism is worse than stupid. Feminism is destructive and hateful.
Very bold costume for 1913! Looks more like ’23.
Mary,
I think feminism gives the message that no WOMAN should be “saddled” with children. Women need seek pleasure, power, and money. Not motherhood.
..It’s never clear precisely how society will persist this way.
..It’s never clear that they feel society ought to persist.
I would tend to agree that the clothing suggests this was composed after the war.
The type face does not look like 1913 or 1923.
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A sense of humor is essential, and trust.
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord…..”
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…”
The first part gets so much press, but this second part really really needs meditation….
John F.:
Actually Feminists blamed women for using men to satisfy a woman’s desire for children.
Many of my friends with five and six children were abandoned by their husbands. “Everybody hates pregnant women”
Procreation was turned into a crime.
David WS:
Husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, these are all offices that men and women consent to become through their own free will with complete and fully informed consent.
Some marriages are annulled when fully informed consent is missing.
St. Paul did not say women be submissive to men.
St. Paul addressed the marriage covenant, women becoming wives and men becoming husbands through their own free will choice. To abandon one’s promises is to abandon one’s integrity. Integrity defines who a person is, or is not. Shakespeare said it better: “To be or not to be.”
“Actually Feminists blamed women for using men to satisfy a woman’s desire for children. Many of my friends with five and six children were abandoned by their husbands.”
“St. Paul did not say women be submissive to men.”
….and I thought English Lit annoying, extracting shades of meaning from text….
I have understood that one of few worthy feminist ideas sought to bring women financial independence. Thus, when the men …abdicated…from fatherhood, the women and children would not be immediately financially burned. A better solution would be for women to be a great deal more…selective …about choosing their husbands. Rather than a woman–and her children–becoming dependent on the State or an increased wage from the woman’s employer, ..the woman would be best advised to ensure that the man she intends marrying has the capacity to support his family, also the knowledge of the expectation.
Women also would best insist on marriage before intimacy.
…. During college, I distinctly recall many presumptuous attitudes from women about what ought be required of men if they did not take this step first.
In short, every couple most truthfully needs marriage preparation, both in and out of the Church. Sad that feminists did not pursue that approach.
I dare say we can nitpick about whether St Paul declared that the average woman ought be submissive to the average man. I will merely comment that society on average has tended to work most fruitfully and cordially when gentlemen have expected to lead. Women requiring that men be either neutral or submissive …often provokes arrogance from the former, resentment in the latter.