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freshwest

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2. I differ with the idea that taking care of men's job prospects is the factor. UE didn't cause this:
Mon May 11, 2015, 02:34 AM
May 2015
hanging out with friends

drinking and playing video games...

running run up money on her credit card....


Because those are not mandatory activities, whether he could find work or not. And he would not have been able to indulge himself in them if she was not working.

Or whether or not he liked or felt a sense of fulfillment or security at the jobs he was able to get. Those are baseline things women and minorities have dealt with forever.

But women still have to take jobs to support their child. Any job, no matter how humiliating or how badly it pays. Because of that child.
This piece sounds like a white male entitlement scenario.

The GOP plan to enable that is not to provide her independence, but to provide him opportunity while she is uneducated, unprotected and kept at home as his servant.

If he did have a job, and she did or did not have one, there is still no protection that he will not leave her and child without means.

That was one of the early premises of feminism that has been borne out by women who had to go to work instead of depending on a man, because you cannot count on another person for a living.

Thus the EEOC and other agencies and programs to allow women to be independent whether they have a spouse or not. Nothing is for sure and a mother must take care of her child first, if possible.


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