I think most people who are annoyed at veterans are people who were too cowardly to have served themselves and need to denegrade them in order to feel good about themselves.
Even in the case where the woman (or the man, doesn’t matter, but it’s usually the woman) agrees to give up her career and earning potential to stay home to raise the kids and take care of the home - or if one partner supports the other while they’re getting an advanced degree/training for a high-earning job and then that partner dumps the one who sacrificed in favor of a younger/hotter/etc. version?
Absolutely. If this is important to you then it is something that should be discussed and agreed upon ahead of time, like a reverse pre-nup. Being married is not involuntary servitude; if you agree to give up your career to take care of the house, then you better be aware of the potential long-term implications if things go south. Nobody “owes” you anything.
I’m either “just” a stay-at-home mom or I’m farming my children out to someone else to raise. In my opinion, a lot of this way of thinking is a result of feminism, so in some ways I feel like feminism (or the way people think of it) did women a great disservice.
What’s funny - and not in a good way - is that most of the people who think this way and judge other women for working or not are women. I’m the last one of my circle of friends who is a mother and works full time and I can’t tell you how many of my female friends and female members of my family have commented that they “just don’t see how you do it - after all, someone else is raising your children for you!”
I believe that the Ural-Altaic language family is a thing. Although I know the evidence for same does not hold up, I proceed as though it were real for my own private linguistics laboratory. I even hybridized it with Dravidian—taking the fun to another level.
I’m pro-choice, but I believe that late-term abortions should be generally be done only for medical reasons (the health of the mother, if something is wrong with the fetus, etc)
And while I’m for trans-gender rights, the idea of putting very young children on hormones and puberty-blockers is very troubling to me.
The problem is that the feminist movement failed to stay in control of their own message. The feminist ethos never denigrates homemakers (of either gender), and, in fact, one of the tenets of feminism is that the value that a homemaker adds to a household should not be minimized.
There have always been working women, and the feminists have fought to improve their situation, status and due compensation. The anti-feminists grabbed onto their support for women in the workplace and have successfully pushed the narrative down hard onto the heads of homemakers. Yes, there are feminists who look down on women who stay home, but I believe that they are in the minority.
Indeed. Also I don’t think 12 year olds are old enough to know if they’re transgender yet. You barely know which way is up while going through puberty. It’s all very well in retrospect to say “I always knew” but that doesn’t mean you actually knew when you were that age, to the point where you start transitioning before you’re 18.
Reduce or eliminate sentences for nonviolent and victimless crimes. People shouldn’t be in jail for drug use, prostitution, gambling, etc.
Increase sentences for violent criminals. When I read stories in the local paper about someone who is the victim of a stranger on stranger violent crime, the one thing that I almost always see regarding the perpetrators is they have a lengthy rap sheet, frequently serving only several months to a few years at the most for things like assault or breaking and entering. These sorts of crimes should be punished more harshly.
My beliefs on the hardcore Trump supporters.
I believe that the Trump supporters who are the most rabid (the lock her up people, the ones who support a Muslim ban, the ones that want to make America a theocracy, etc.) are no different at heart than the people in the Middle East that support ISIS. I believe that someone like this guy, A Man Went On A Racist Tirade Because A Guy Talked To His Puerto Rican Mom In Spanish had he been born in Syria, would probably be an ISIS supporter.