"Wives belong at home with the kids"

WHEN someone says, “Wives belong at home with the children,” many people, especially ideological feminists and liberal journalists, go ballistic over the sexism they see directed at women. 

What they don’t realize — because they’ve trained themselves to ignore men’s side to the gender coin and are hence blind to anti-male sexism — is that “Wives belong at home with the children” means the husband belongs away from the home and away from the children. It means he must leave the home and the people he loves and go to a workplace where he is often surrounded by, as CBSNews.com columnist Steve Tobak puts it, “sniper employees ready to shoot you in the back the minute you turn around,” usually to look good by making you look bad. He must do this to raise an income so that she can stay at home to raise the children. (And so that she can enjoy the children’s love and adorableness even as she sacrifices to tend to their needs; he sacrifices, too, but I’ve never heard a man describe his boss or his cut-throat-competitive co-workers as lovable and adorable).

“Wives belong at home with the children” means keeping him in his “place” every bit as much as it means keeping her in her “place.”

And it masks the truth that women believe this as much as men do. Sadly, even many of the feminists who denounce “Wives belong at home with the children” believe that husbands belong at work away from the children. 

The statement’s sexism, which feminists and the mainstream media see as applying only to women, is in fact two-way and equally hurtful — or helpful, depending on your ideology — to both sexes.

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For other examples of how men are overlooked in feminists’ and the media’s effort to portray women as victims, please go to:

“The Doctrinaire Institute For Women’s Policy Research“

“Taking Apart the Walmart Sex-Bias Class-Action 

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