If she just wants to be a wife and mother that's fine and dandy, but she doesn't get to make that decision for anyone other than herself. Few people disgust me more than those who claim their religion entitles them to a say in other people's personal choices.
Put her on the ticket with Katie Briggs in 2028. They can run the Gold Leaf House from their own kitchens. Oh, it will be grand! Fresh scones for Shitler each morning in his cozy asylum. Succulent, fresh fried dogs and cats for Couchfucker Magee, now incarcerated on Alligator Alcatraz for, once again, having his sordid way with furniture. A blood bank set aside, just for Steven Miller. Yes, yes, yes, that’s the ticket!
I like just love like sugar coated FRUIT LOOPS like. She’s like the one like for me like.
I could like just eat her like alive like. She’s like the best FRUIT like LOOP I’ve ever cum across like. Yum yum like.
If like she is like selling T-shirts like emblazoned with 'YUM YUM LIKE', then I like am going to like get one like. And like on the back emblazoned like with 'F'N YUMMY, SHE'S LIKE FOR ME'.
"I love my Father in Heaven and strive to do His will."
To Mylie Bigot...
Want to follow what your holy book says? Read 1 Timothy 2:12. Oh, and if you intend to serve in public office, that means strict adherence to the Constitution, which you say you support. There are no gods in the Constitution.
She is a devout Mormon, so likely she has gotten her worldview from readingThe Book of Ether. It is an incoherent and seemingly interminable tract in the Book of Mormon.
I went through a period in my teens where I was trying to understand just what people saw in religions... I read the Bible, The Koran, The book of Mormon, and as much of the Bhagvad Ghita as I could stand.
I did something very similar at that age, and came to the firm conclusion that all of it was utter poppycock. People who think atheists just somehow don't know about their religion and will instantly convert once it's been patronisingly explained to them/shoved down their throats are some of the biggest deluded morons on the planet.
After all, there's a reason the church fought tooth and nail to stop laypeople from being able to even read the thing. Unless it's selectively spoonfed to you by an authority figure, you might just figure out what horrible, cruel nonsense it is. I managed to get my hands on the writings of the Virginia Tech shooter, which had gotten his teachers so concerned, and just reading it I KNEW there was something very very wrong with the mind behind it. I felt soiled and disturbed. Reading the bible gives me the exact same feeling.
"I don't want a 9 to 5" Who does? Not that I actually have one, first it's actually 8 to 5 in general in these parts (though I get 9:30-5:30 working a slightly shifted schedule). Second, I'm on call every third week which means I can have to work at any time for a week.
Seriously, though, if she wins and pushes through the laws that she wants regarding women's rights, she will swiftly find herself in Serena Joy's position: property of a man in power with no power of her own. With the added resentment of one who has tasted that power and has been forced to give it up because of her own demands. Not only are the leopards going to eat her face, she is willingly serving it to them and asking what seasonings she should use.
Beat me to it. Frozen leg of lamb wielded by a young Barbara Bel Geddes. Then she roasted the weapon and fed it to the detectives who came to her house. Ooooooooooh, I loved that episode.
I remember one episode of a TV show where nobody understood where the bullet killing the victim had gone. One entry point, no exit and no bullet. They got their answer with a second autopsy when they found animal meat stuck to the brain.
In one of Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms books, a police detective is on the phone with his boss. Trying to explain that the victim has six exit wounds and no entrance wounds.
.
.
Serge took his "student' to an MRI facility and had him swallow six bullets, and then turned on the machine.
The NYT recently ran a story about Lauren Southern, an antifeminist who decided to be a Tradwife. Things did not go well for her. She left an abusive relationship and returned to Canada as a single mom.
Mylie Biggs doesn’t understand that having options or choice is important. Without feminism she wouldn’t be allowed to go on podcasts, speak her shitty opinions, or run for office.
3. Mylie Briggs said that women should not run for office.
4. Mylie Briggs is running for office.
THEREFORE: the inescapable conclusion is Mylie Briggs is a man. All of you should feel ashamed for misgendering him. He is just trying to do his best, and you people are cruelly misgendering him! For shame!
As a lapsed Mormon, a female, and a resident of Arizona, I am profoundly embarrassed by the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of this little girl and her traitorous father.
Oooooookay, then. We got a woman who thinks women shouldn't run for office RUNNING FOR OFFICE. This same woman takes one look at the women currently in office and GASPS that they are mostly Democrats. DEMOCRATS??? EEEEK!!! Repeal the 19th Amendment! And OF COURSE she's going to get elected because her district is redder than Rudolph's nose.
How ditzy can you get? Answer: pretty damned ditzy. 🤦♂️
It opens for me but all these image sites have issues for different browsers. It's Malibu Stacy from the Simpsons saying "Don't ask me, I'm just a girl."
You want her to have an aneurysm ? France, 1936. Women had no voting rights, nor the right to be elected. Yet, 4 women were in the government, one of them named Irène Joliot-Curie. Yes, this Curie family.
Nope, no aneurysm, I don't think. I think that, once she gets into office, she's due for a considerable wake-up call, which might give rise to one hell of a headache, as in: "What the HELL did I get myself into???"
Be careful of what you wish for, Mylie. You MIGHT get it!
Didn't mean to. Thing is, it was likely an aneurysm / stroke that ultimately killed my father. I hated the sumbitch, but for what I've seen, aneurysms are NASTY, and I'm not certain I'd wish one on anybody, not even HIM.
History is becoming more fascinating to me by the day. I only wish I’d gotten started earlier in life…maybe I could have warned some people about what was coming…cuz this xtian bullshit is nothing new. Shitler has just pumped it full of steroids…most probably provided by, you know who, RFK Jr.
There are few historical facts I retain from the Catholic Elementary School days. Funny that when in 2nd grade, just a wee lad amongst the ruler swinging penguins, I recall that Barry Goldwater was running for POTUS. Must have been his name that made us kids interested at all, for it to take our minds away from talk of baseball cards and the best way to flip them.
Not sure I agree. There are plenty of Republican women in Trump's administration that are more than happy to screw things up. This isn't about sex so much as it is about sound judgment, based in reality and NOT on ideology.
OH GOD!! (HE/HIM FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON)! PLEASE FORCE THE MORMON CHURCH TO DROP THEIR MASSIVE FORTUNE OF ILL-GOTTEN GAINS ON ENDING HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA!
If you actually exist, I mean. Fucking Arizona. Lived there for awhile in the 70s/80s. We had to actually vote to impeach Mormon Racist Gov Ev Meacham for saying things like "it's ok to use the word pickaniny (sp) when speaking of black children." Doonesbury had a field day with this guy.
At the time, Phoenix was chock full of rednecks and Mormons. And holy crap, the HEAT!! Got the hell outta there as soon as I could. Unfortunately I still have MAGAt relatives there, including my sister. We currently rarely speak. End of rant!
“I just want to be a wife. I just want to be a mom. Like, that's what I wanna do. And I think a lot of other women are waking up to that, too. They're like, “I don't want a 9 to 5. I want to be a wife! I want to be a mom!” Like, all the feminism leaving their bodies once they have to, you know, do a 9 to 5… And, like, I totally agree with that.”
Just wait, Mylie. I spent my childhood dreaming of being a stay at home mommy. I wanted to stay home, play with my kids and make art in my spare time. Until I could get that, I graduated high school, joined the military, got an education, did these things because I knew I needed a financial cushion, and some knowledge about the art I wanted to make, to be able to do that comfortably. I wasn’t pulling in the millionaires to fund my cushy lifestyle, so I needed to do some kind of preparation. Anyway, I found a good husband who supports me as much as I support him, we discussed what we might do when we had children, we worked toward the life we agreed on. We had a kid and I was still finishing school, but once I was done I stayed home, and had another kid. I was lonely, I was bored, I couldn’t do much art because we didn’t have the money, it was unsafe to do around the kids and there wasn’t enough time nor did I have enough energy when the kids were sleeping. It wasn’t what I thought it would be. I was going stir crazy, I made friends but was super lonely. Our finances couldn’t really support it, even though we tried to plan ahead for it. I was miserable and my kids felt it. I then found work. Started off part time, worked when the kids were in school and home when they got home. Then got up to full time once they were more independent.
Now I’m behind the curve for retirement, even if social security doesn’t get gutted completely, I wouldn’t be able to live off it if anything happens to my husband. My MIL faced that when my FIL passed away. This is my experience.
Other sahms have had worse outcomes. The trad wives of yesterday are now online telling us about their husbands leaving them, divorcing them now they’re older, or he’s found a prettier model, and they have nothing but insurmountable debt and responsibilities. They didn’t have husbands that supported them aside from making sure there was money for groceries. They are now uneducated, without job skills and experience, and without any money at all. But they’re still expected to live with the children (often many children, more than one or two) and maintain their lifestyle. And Mylie, the more conservative or republican you are the likelihood that this is your future increases.
And let’s not forget that feminism doesn’t even remotely say you can’t be a mom, or stay at home, or not work. If that is truly what you want, feminism supports this. It may remind you that it is fraught with danger, but it supports you choosing this life. Feminism also supports all the other things that women have fought for to cushion your suffering when it all goes to shit at your first wrinkle or sag. Of course feminism also supports women who choose to work and become politicians and providers and everything else women are excelling past men at.
DM's older sister wasn't good at school, she was happy as a housewife and yet, she decided to get her license to be a nanny because while happy, she still felt some emptiness. It was not for money, her husband had more then decent wages.
If she just wants to be a wife and mother that's fine and dandy, but she doesn't get to make that decision for anyone other than herself. Few people disgust me more than those who claim their religion entitles them to a say in other people's personal choices.
Her first name says it all: My lie is that Mylie supports women.
Put her on the ticket with Katie Briggs in 2028. They can run the Gold Leaf House from their own kitchens. Oh, it will be grand! Fresh scones for Shitler each morning in his cozy asylum. Succulent, fresh fried dogs and cats for Couchfucker Magee, now incarcerated on Alligator Alcatraz for, once again, having his sordid way with furniture. A blood bank set aside, just for Steven Miller. Yes, yes, yes, that’s the ticket!
Don't sugar coat it. ;)
I like just love like sugar coated FRUIT LOOPS like. She’s like the one like for me like.
I could like just eat her like alive like. She’s like the best FRUIT like LOOP I’ve ever cum across like. Yum yum like.
If like she is like selling T-shirts like emblazoned with 'YUM YUM LIKE', then I like am going to like get one like. And like on the back emblazoned like with 'F'N YUMMY, SHE'S LIKE FOR ME'.
Especially forced-birthers, I mean she assumes every woman has kids. Guess what Mylie you bitch? Many of us don't have kids, of our own choice.
Really, I’m like a draft dodger. I did everything within my power not to have children.
Me too!
Mine was the furry kind. She needed clothes but at least I didn't have to deal with diapers and bottles.
What do you mean ? Of course every cis woman wants 40 kids.
Lol. great channeling!
"I love my Father in Heaven and strive to do His will."
To Mylie Bigot...
Want to follow what your holy book says? Read 1 Timothy 2:12. Oh, and if you intend to serve in public office, that means strict adherence to the Constitution, which you say you support. There are no gods in the Constitution.
She is a devout Mormon, so likely she has gotten her worldview from readingThe Book of Ether. It is an incoherent and seemingly interminable tract in the Book of Mormon.
Well, I once tried to read the Book of Mormon, it was better than ether to put me to sleep.
I went through a period in my teens where I was trying to understand just what people saw in religions... I read the Bible, The Koran, The book of Mormon, and as much of the Bhagvad Ghita as I could stand.
We studied the Bible and the Quran in English class as literature. That was interesting.
I took 'Literature of the Bible' as my senior English class in College.
I did something very similar at that age, and came to the firm conclusion that all of it was utter poppycock. People who think atheists just somehow don't know about their religion and will instantly convert once it's been patronisingly explained to them/shoved down their throats are some of the biggest deluded morons on the planet.
One of my favorite aphorisms is "believing the bible makes you a christian. Understanding the bible makes you an atheist".
After all, there's a reason the church fought tooth and nail to stop laypeople from being able to even read the thing. Unless it's selectively spoonfed to you by an authority figure, you might just figure out what horrible, cruel nonsense it is. I managed to get my hands on the writings of the Virginia Tech shooter, which had gotten his teachers so concerned, and just reading it I KNEW there was something very very wrong with the mind behind it. I felt soiled and disturbed. Reading the bible gives me the exact same feeling.
I did the same theology is just so logic-defying.
I read Bertrand Russell’s ‘Why I Am Not a Christian’ when I was 18. It was one of those clarifying moments in my life.
I read the entire bible cover to cover when I was 9. I found it very contradictory, and poorly narrated. Above all it just did not make sense.
I thought Michelson and Morley proved Ether does not exist.
Anyway the non existent Ether had a grandfather called Moron. I guess that explains a lot.
But the Golden Plates of New York, Stephen. The Golden Plates!
Joseph Smith was just as big a fraud (and hypocrite) as tRump. David Fitzgerald's take in 'The Mormons' is an engaging and entertaining read.
He made up the con while he was in jail from what I recall. He just wanted to bone young girls.
In jail for committing fraud.
"They're like, “I don't want a 9 to 5."
But an unpaid 24/7 is ok. christian bretzel logic at it's finest...
“if she wins"
Let's just hope her district is misogynistic enough.
"Not that saying idiotic things has ever hurt her father"
He is a man. marine lapeine learned very early to not be as outrageous in public as her father for this very reason.
And is it me or even for a woman who was probably homeschooled with bad christian textbooks, her vocabulary seems very limited ?
"Let's just hope her district is misogynistic enough."
Has it really come to the point of needing misogyny to fight misogyny? I hate this fucking timeline.
It's how we don't end with marine lapeine as president.
Talk to the TVA about the "Sacred" Timeline.
Those Mormon men like their multiple wives stupid. Can't have them staging a revolution at home.
Like…for sure…like yeah
"Gag me with a spoon!"
"I don't want a 9 to 5" Who does? Not that I actually have one, first it's actually 8 to 5 in general in these parts (though I get 9:30-5:30 working a slightly shifted schedule). Second, I'm on call every third week which means I can have to work at any time for a week.
‘Like’ what do you mean? 🤣
Mylie Biggs is, like, a moron.
"Like?" In the dictionary, under "moron," it should say, "See Biggs, Mylie."
Salt of the Earth.
https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg?si=9mKTfTO7hk91swNU
“People of the Land.” 😂😂😂
"You know ... morons!"
And salt is formed by combining an acid and a base.
Saltpeter of the Earth is more like it!
There should only be one m in Mormon.
That's right, they are now Ormons.
"Honestly, I don't know if I would vote for any female. I don't know if a female should be in office."
Then withdraw from the race and go birth some younguns.
And make her man a sammich whie she's at it.
Her man will be very upset when she says, "Not tonight, dear. I'm too tired from the campaign."
And go to campaign he following day with a turtleneck and sunglasses.
The sweater to cover the hickeys?
Let's go with this version.
"He already told her once."
Then get in the kitchen and make me a sammich!
Only his idea of a “sammitch” involves the wife, him, and a hooker…
I will ask you the same as I asked Boreal. With or without fingers ?
Besides, I have a date with one of your sister wives.
Great minds in sync again…🤪
Happens a lot here. :D
Get your arse back in the kitchen and make me a sammich!
https://images.app.goo.gl/ccjaft7UDJieujNk9
The thing is, she is the sub in her marriage.
"𝑌𝑒𝑎ℎ, 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙… 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛."
So, why are you running?
“𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒.”
So, serve. Fetch me a sammich.
Seriously, though, if she wins and pushes through the laws that she wants regarding women's rights, she will swiftly find herself in Serena Joy's position: property of a man in power with no power of her own. With the added resentment of one who has tasted that power and has been forced to give it up because of her own demands. Not only are the leopards going to eat her face, she is willingly serving it to them and asking what seasonings she should use.
Do you want it fresh or frozen ? 😁
Frozen sandwich as a blunt force object. CSI never tried that one.
Alfred Hitchcock, Lamb to the Slaughter. Not a sandwich though...
Beat me to it. Frozen leg of lamb wielded by a young Barbara Bel Geddes. Then she roasted the weapon and fed it to the detectives who came to her house. Ooooooooooh, I loved that episode.
I remember one episode of a TV show where nobody understood where the bullet killing the victim had gone. One entry point, no exit and no bullet. They got their answer with a second autopsy when they found animal meat stuck to the brain.
I thought it was made out of ice.
The one I remember was made of frozen meat*. But, I wouldn't be surprised if another screenwriter made-up an ice bullet in another show.
* Or I remember wrong, I am not sure if it was in CSI, NCIS or Bones. It was probably not Law and order.
I seem to recall Mythbusters doing something along those lines when investigating the murder of JFK? Maybe?
No,it was fiction.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768478/?ref_=ttep_ep_4
In one of Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms books, a police detective is on the phone with his boss. Trying to explain that the victim has six exit wounds and no entrance wounds.
.
.
Serge took his "student' to an MRI facility and had him swallow six bullets, and then turned on the machine.
Ouch!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534659
The NYT recently ran a story about Lauren Southern, an antifeminist who decided to be a Tradwife. Things did not go well for her. She left an abusive relationship and returned to Canada as a single mom.
Wait until they cut off her finger
😂😂😂
She’s a Republicon man’s dream, eh’ Joe?
I don't think she is smart enough to understand the leopard paradigm.
She gives off big “my abortion is justified, you all are just sluts” energy.
Yes, she reeks of "I'm special."
"Rules for thee, not for me."
My abortion is necessary, your abortion sought for the exact same reasons and circumstances is not.
What a brainwashed idiot.
Mylie Biggs doesn’t understand that having options or choice is important. Without feminism she wouldn’t be allowed to go on podcasts, speak her shitty opinions, or run for office.
Fuck around and find out.
They always have women hold the line and be the soft face of their fascism. Cowards.
Well, let's look at want we know.
1. Mylie Briggs is a Christian.
2. Christians do not lie.
3. Mylie Briggs said that women should not run for office.
4. Mylie Briggs is running for office.
THEREFORE: the inescapable conclusion is Mylie Briggs is a man. All of you should feel ashamed for misgendering him. He is just trying to do his best, and you people are cruelly misgendering him! For shame!
Undoubtedly, their real name is Myles, like our son. Not sure how I feel about that.
Someone should inform his dad so we can watch Andy’s head explode
Does she have permission from her husband/father/eldest male relative?
I don't know, but I guess that if she has, she has promised to give them anything they want. Including 2*3.
As a lapsed Mormon, a female, and a resident of Arizona, I am profoundly embarrassed by the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of this little girl and her traitorous father.
You shouldn't be. You got out and are in good company here :)
Oooooookay, then. We got a woman who thinks women shouldn't run for office RUNNING FOR OFFICE. This same woman takes one look at the women currently in office and GASPS that they are mostly Democrats. DEMOCRATS??? EEEEK!!! Repeal the 19th Amendment! And OF COURSE she's going to get elected because her district is redder than Rudolph's nose.
How ditzy can you get? Answer: pretty damned ditzy. 🤦♂️
All that thinking is tough for her as a christian woman.
https://ibb.co/pvM8K1zf
She was taught WHAT to think, not HOW to think.
That sums it up nicely.
“502 bad Gateway”
It opens for me but all these image sites have issues for different browsers. It's Malibu Stacy from the Simpsons saying "Don't ask me, I'm just a girl."
Sometimes they load for me, other times no. This time it did. 🤷🏼♀️
I can see it. 😁
You want her to have an aneurysm ? France, 1936. Women had no voting rights, nor the right to be elected. Yet, 4 women were in the government, one of them named Irène Joliot-Curie. Yes, this Curie family.
Nope, no aneurysm, I don't think. I think that, once she gets into office, she's due for a considerable wake-up call, which might give rise to one hell of a headache, as in: "What the HELL did I get myself into???"
Be careful of what you wish for, Mylie. You MIGHT get it!
Why are you spoiling my fun ? 😝
Didn't mean to. Thing is, it was likely an aneurysm / stroke that ultimately killed my father. I hated the sumbitch, but for what I've seen, aneurysms are NASTY, and I'm not certain I'd wish one on anybody, not even HIM.
Sometimes I'm just weird, I guess. 🤷♂️
Sorry, I wouldn't have said that had I know.
No worries, my friend.
History is becoming more fascinating to me by the day. I only wish I’d gotten started earlier in life…maybe I could have warned some people about what was coming…cuz this xtian bullshit is nothing new. Shitler has just pumped it full of steroids…most probably provided by, you know who, RFK Jr.
As you well know, Barry Goldwater saw this coming at least 50 years ago. What a shame Republicans couldn't be bothered to listen to him.
They wanted power so badly that they didn't care.
There are few historical facts I retain from the Catholic Elementary School days. Funny that when in 2nd grade, just a wee lad amongst the ruler swinging penguins, I recall that Barry Goldwater was running for POTUS. Must have been his name that made us kids interested at all, for it to take our minds away from talk of baseball cards and the best way to flip them.
If only women ruled the world. Maybe our biosphere wouldn’t be en fuego.
Not sure I agree. There are plenty of Republican women in Trump's administration that are more than happy to screw things up. This isn't about sex so much as it is about sound judgment, based in reality and NOT on ideology.
I’m confident in my take…and besides, I did say “maybe.”
Sadly, some of the worst of us seek power as republicans see: Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin Boobert, Marge howler monkey from Georgia, Nancy Mace...
Check out Andra Watkins take on this.
https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/how-white-christian-nationalist-men
Marge howler monkey! LMAO!
I have a meme of she and Boobert heckling President Biden, and a pic next to it of two howler monkeys. The resemblance is uncanny.
I’ll bet! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I went looking and found this: https://imgur.com/gallery/baboons-tIDulx3
Is this the one? Had me laughing so hard I almost wet myself.
Redder than a baboon's ass. Which her father definitely is.
Someone failed to get her MRS degree. Maybe she should have gone to BYU where that is a graduation requirement.
I upvoted because I am sure there is a joke in your comment but I don't get it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRS_degree
Like beef tallow woman ?
I’ll be willing to bet my house that Mylie follows her.
She's in rare company then.
OH GOD!! (HE/HIM FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON)! PLEASE FORCE THE MORMON CHURCH TO DROP THEIR MASSIVE FORTUNE OF ILL-GOTTEN GAINS ON ENDING HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA!
If you actually exist, I mean. Fucking Arizona. Lived there for awhile in the 70s/80s. We had to actually vote to impeach Mormon Racist Gov Ev Meacham for saying things like "it's ok to use the word pickaniny (sp) when speaking of black children." Doonesbury had a field day with this guy.
At the time, Phoenix was chock full of rednecks and Mormons. And holy crap, the HEAT!! Got the hell outta there as soon as I could. Unfortunately I still have MAGAt relatives there, including my sister. We currently rarely speak. End of rant!
Please, rant to your heart content.
Thx I'm certainly NOT the friendliest atheist, unlike our dear substack creator. ;-)
Hemant admitted that he's not really friendly and that Friendly Atheist is "just marketing." :)
Gotcha. I missed that somehow. One of our favorite aphorisms was "It's not the heat; it's the stupidity."
I am not an Atheist but I am friendly to those who earned it :)
Same. I vary in my opinion from day to day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA_UWvus8QY&t=192s
“I just want to be a wife. I just want to be a mom. Like, that's what I wanna do. And I think a lot of other women are waking up to that, too. They're like, “I don't want a 9 to 5. I want to be a wife! I want to be a mom!” Like, all the feminism leaving their bodies once they have to, you know, do a 9 to 5… And, like, I totally agree with that.”
Just wait, Mylie. I spent my childhood dreaming of being a stay at home mommy. I wanted to stay home, play with my kids and make art in my spare time. Until I could get that, I graduated high school, joined the military, got an education, did these things because I knew I needed a financial cushion, and some knowledge about the art I wanted to make, to be able to do that comfortably. I wasn’t pulling in the millionaires to fund my cushy lifestyle, so I needed to do some kind of preparation. Anyway, I found a good husband who supports me as much as I support him, we discussed what we might do when we had children, we worked toward the life we agreed on. We had a kid and I was still finishing school, but once I was done I stayed home, and had another kid. I was lonely, I was bored, I couldn’t do much art because we didn’t have the money, it was unsafe to do around the kids and there wasn’t enough time nor did I have enough energy when the kids were sleeping. It wasn’t what I thought it would be. I was going stir crazy, I made friends but was super lonely. Our finances couldn’t really support it, even though we tried to plan ahead for it. I was miserable and my kids felt it. I then found work. Started off part time, worked when the kids were in school and home when they got home. Then got up to full time once they were more independent.
Now I’m behind the curve for retirement, even if social security doesn’t get gutted completely, I wouldn’t be able to live off it if anything happens to my husband. My MIL faced that when my FIL passed away. This is my experience.
Other sahms have had worse outcomes. The trad wives of yesterday are now online telling us about their husbands leaving them, divorcing them now they’re older, or he’s found a prettier model, and they have nothing but insurmountable debt and responsibilities. They didn’t have husbands that supported them aside from making sure there was money for groceries. They are now uneducated, without job skills and experience, and without any money at all. But they’re still expected to live with the children (often many children, more than one or two) and maintain their lifestyle. And Mylie, the more conservative or republican you are the likelihood that this is your future increases.
And let’s not forget that feminism doesn’t even remotely say you can’t be a mom, or stay at home, or not work. If that is truly what you want, feminism supports this. It may remind you that it is fraught with danger, but it supports you choosing this life. Feminism also supports all the other things that women have fought for to cushion your suffering when it all goes to shit at your first wrinkle or sag. Of course feminism also supports women who choose to work and become politicians and providers and everything else women are excelling past men at.
The opposite of feminism is sexism. SAHM should be a 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦, not a 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦.
DM's older sister wasn't good at school, she was happy as a housewife and yet, she decided to get her license to be a nanny because while happy, she still felt some emptiness. It was not for money, her husband had more then decent wages.