hereorthere, Do you think women are JUST wives and mothers? Are men JUST husbands and fathers? I don’t know about you, but in addition to me being a wife and mother, I am also a daughter, grandaughter, aunt, neice, friend, engineer, shul committee member, knitter, reader, bargain shopper, have a thirst for learning random subjects, love hiking and traveling, happy person with many other traits and thoughts and opinions. And I make a really great cheesecake 🙂
Did I ever say my husband “obeys” me? He is also a unique individual with thoughts and feelings and we are married. I don’t know about you, but my idea of marriage is blended two peoples lives to build a cohesive unit, often requiring compromise from both sides. We love, support, help, care for each other. We don’t demand, obligate, force or coerce each other to do what the other one wants. [to clarify, all these things within the halachic framework – we follow our rav for halachic shailas]
I don’t believe women are better than men. I don’t believe men are better than women. I think we were created differently and those differences enhance our coexistance rather than detract if we let it. But yes, I must be a feminist because I think that women working the same job as men should get equal pay (insert eye roll here).
I’m not sure what I am saying that is against halacha or hashkafa. Wouldn’t you call a society where women are the breadwinners and have much more secular education a feminist society?
MDD, can you cite the Rama? I would like to learn it inside. I always thought that women are NOT obligated to get married because doing so would obligate them to have children, and that women are NOT obligated to have children because it puts them in a makom sakana. Anyway, I would love to look it up.
Oh and hereorthere, yes, ritalin is overused because schools cannot often handle overactive kids disrupting the classroom. They are understaffed. But your thoughts on it “pushing the liberal womens agenda” shows how little you really know about feminism.
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