What is a "feminist'?

[Headcoveredlady]

Originally posted by Alexandra Spears:
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I would like to add though that I personally believe that the feminists of old lead the path to what we see today.

I meant I agree with their stance on abortion. I sometimes wonder, though, what their intentions were. I also think somewhere along the line some feminazi took their ball and ran with it.

That being said, I'm not sure about married women voting. Shouldn't the entire family be in agreement?

Boy, I wonder if THAT will open up a can of worms...! [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]Yes, I agree.

 

[Thankful]

Why would anyone assume that if a married woman votes, the family would not be in agreement?

 

[timothy 1769]

Originally posted by Alexandra Spears:
That being said, I'm not sure about married women voting.

Boy, I wonder if THAT will open up a can of worms...!

good point. isn't voting an expression of power and authority?

1Timothy 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

sounds like the typical family situation these days, unfortunately.

 

[Alexandra Spears]

I'm going by experience. My husband would vote Democrat or independent. I lean to the right--so I'd go Republican.

Why is this? Well...we work at a place that requires you to be in a union, and typically Democrats support unions.

Me, I'm a bit leery of unions...it seems like they demand a bit too much. I'm happy with what I earn. In fact, my leave is a paid leave.

On the other hand, the company we work for will screw people over given half a chance.

I'm saying that who to vote for can cause a rift between a married couple. All I'm saying. And I'm saying it as a married woman.

 

[Headcoveredlady]

Great point Alexandra!

And thanks for the verses Timothy.

I personally stay out of politics, but I see Alexandra's point.

 

[Thankful]

I believe this is off the original subject of this thread and I hope that a moderator will close it.

People have died for the right for people to vote in this country.

 

[Headcoveredlady]

No offense Thankful, but didn't feminism in America begin with women demanding their right to vote?

 

[Thankful]

Originally posted by Headcoveredlady:
No offense Thankful, but didn't feminism in America begin with women demanding their right to vote?

Personnally, I don't know. But my question was What is a feminist? Not what caused feminism.

Some have said that it was started when women started wearing pants. Women started wearing pants in World War II because it was more practical to do the war jobs that were necessary.
They also started cutting their hair at that time also because it was more practical when working in the factories.

We owe a great deal, in fact, the freedom that we have today to even discuss things like this to the men and women of the World War II Era.

 

[Thankful]

Furthermore, if voting or a political viewpoint causes problems in a marriage, then in my opinion, the problems in the marriage go much deeper than a difference of opinion.

Don't suggest that married women should not vote because it MAY cause some people problems in their marriages.

 

[Alexandra Spears]

Originally posted by Thankful:
Furthermore, if voting or a political viewpoint causes problems in a marriage, then in my opinion, the problems in the marriage go much deeper than a difference of opinion.

Don't suggest that married women should not vote because it MAY cause some people problems in their marriages.

I was just tossing it out for an idea. I never said married women couldn't vote. My husband and I don't have that many problems in our marriage anyhow.

 

[Headcoveredlady]

Originally posted by Thankful:
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Some have said that it was started when women
We owe a great deal, in fact, the freedom that we have today to even discuss things like this to the men and women of the World War II Era.

I am very, very thankful for their hard work and for the freedom that I enjoy today.

I just thought of something else. What is it about women voting that has contributed to women submitting to their husbands, loving their children and being keepers at home?

 

[timothy 1769]

Originally posted by Thankful:
Want to try for barefoot and pregnant.

should women stay at home, barefoot and pregnant? i don't know about barefoot, but...

Titus 2:5
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1Timothy 2:15
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

 

[Alexandra Spears]

I guess what I'm trying to get at is, no problem with a single woman voting.

But a husband and wife are supposed to be one. I guess if one wants to vote one way and the other the other way...not too many elections are won by one vote!

I think a lot of it is, my husband tends to vote for whom the union endorses, and I vote pro-life, because that's important to me.

Then I want to take a "fatalistic" view and say whomever God wants in will get in.

Husband and wife should work together on this. Politics can cause rifts in families. My mother and I don't see eye to eye because she votes Democrat. But, she says, at least she raised me to think for myself and not just blindly follow her. Yes I respect my mother.

 

[timothy 1769]

Originally posted by Alexandra Spears:
I'm going by experience. My husband would vote Democrat or independent. I lean to the right--so I'd go Republican.

do you two ever feel tempted to stay at home, since in many races your votes just cancel each other out?

 

[Headcoveredlady]

Originally posted by timothy 1969:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Thankful:
Want to try for barefoot and pregnant.

should women stay at home, barefoot and pregnant? i don't know about barefoot, but...

Titus 2:5
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1Timothy 2:15
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. </font>[/QUOTE]I love being barefoot. I hate to wear shoes inside.

 

[timothy 1769]

so what does the "barefoot" in "barefoot and pregnant" mean anyway? that she stays inside? that her husband is too cheap to buy shoes? what?

btw, my entire family wears just socks on our feet inside the house....

 

[Alexandra Spears]

Originally posted by timothy 1969:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Alexandra Spears:
I'm going by experience. My husband would vote Democrat or independent. I lean to the right--so I'd go Republican.

do you two ever feel tempted to stay at home, since in many races your votes just cancel each other out?

</font>[/QUOTE]LOL! Good point!

 

[ColoradoFB]

Let me throw a log on the fire!

Susan B. Anthony, suffragette and likely atheist, said the following:

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

"To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom..."

"I was born a heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."

 

[Ed Edwards]

Originally posted by timothy 1769:
so what does the "barefoot" in "barefoot and pregnant" mean anyway? that she stays inside? that her husband is too cheap to buy shoes? what?

"Barefoot" in
"barefoot and pregnant" has no seperate
meaning. "Barefoot and pregnant" means
(well, around the Texas area) abusive
control of the wife by the husband.

I've been a Christian for 51 years and
have studyed the Bible extensively.
Never yet have i found a verse that
even hints that husbands are to LORD
it over their wifes. But this lording
it over the wife is EXACTLY what
"barefoot and pregnant" means.

 

[Thankful]

Originally posted by timothy 1969:


1Timothy 2:15
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Since it appears that you and others take the King James Bible literally, what does this verse mean?