A lot is
being said on both sides of the aisle about a “War on Women.” Both sides claim
the other is unfair to women, and many claim that working conditions remain
unfair for them. While there is significant evidence to support all these
views, the larger issue is being overlooked. This isn’t really a war on women:
it is a war on the Homemaker, the original position of the woman in society.
A homemaker,
as the name suggests, cares for, manages, and organizes the home, as well as
raise the children of the family. This role has throughout history been the job
of women, but few understand just how much power this job had and how important
it was. While men took other jobs like farming or banking, women were given
total control of the home. This meant that they had to educate children, manage
finances, bake, organize, maintain property, instill character, clean,
entertain, set the best example possible for children and do many, many more
things. This was and is a full time job that few today recognize as such, and
which requires a broad base of knowledge and skills unlike any other
profession.
But does
this job have any power? Quite a lot, actually, though it is a lot deeper a
power than many understand. The strength of all societies relies on the inner
strength of their people. If citizens do not have moral virtue, go uneducated,
and possess no character to speak of, a society will devolve into anarchy or
governments will be forced to effectively enslave their people. The basis for
the intelligence and moral fiber of men and women lies in what they learn at
home. Institutions and nannies have tried and failed to instill these lessons
in people and children, and other family systems like the single parent
household fail to be as effective too. In short, without the homemaker society
would slowly collapse from moral, mental and emotional decay.
In the
Middle Ages this role was revered as it should have been, this reverence for
women and their position being expressed in the idea of chivalry, and for a
long time this idea stuck and women were greatly respected. Then, sometime in
the 1800’s, men turned against the homemakers and devalued them, instituting
rules in government to limit their freedoms and settle all disputes in the
favor of men. When women grew aware of this they were naturally furious, and
organized against it. This eventually developed into the feminist movement, but
a key mistake was made: the feminists accepted the devaluation of the homemaker
and instead wanted to do men’s jobs. Now nobody wanted to be a homemaker any
more.
The result
of all this has been that neither the man nor the woman are expected to take
care of children unless they have to. The job is empty, and nobody is willing to
take it. Homes are now houses, cleaned by maids not moms. Raising children is
now done by schools, nannies, the government and other organizations, but none
of them do a good job of it. But worst of all, with no person loving, guiding,
educating or inspiring children today, kids suffer in a thousand different
ways, as has been shown by many different scientific studies. And still, people
look at the world around us and wonder why things are so bad. What we are
experiencing isn’t an ongoing war on women; women are fighting on both sides.
We are experiencing the effects of losing
the war on the homemaker: a war which we can still win if we try.
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