The island of the dominators
Well at least we know he considered women subordinate and hence inferior.
And we want Taylor Swift on team America. We want you to leave the island of the wokeys. And we would welcome you with open arms. One of the reasons why so many people on the right have been just skeptical or at least a little bit negative on Taylor Swift is, up until this point, that’s not a great role model for young women, to wait all the way until you’re 35 and just put your career first.
Why? Why isn’t it? Do all women have to have children, whether they want to or not? Do all women have to have children long before they are 35? Do all women have to put their career second?
All kidding and sarcasm aside, this is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative. Engage in reality more and get outside of the abstract clouds. Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.
Why? Why should she submit to her husband? Why can’t submission just be off the table entirely? Why can’t couples be equals instead of one boss and one submitter? Why can’t neither of them be “in charge”? Why can’t coupling up be completely separate from the boss/servant relationship? Why isn’t it better for adults to treat each other as equals instead of jockeying for boss over underling?
You’ll get no arguments from me, Ophelia. My marriage is an equal partnership, as were those of my parents and my husband’s parents (so we both had good role models).
What Mr Misogyny doesn’t seem to realise is that women can and should be treated as equals regardless of marital status, motherhood status, career status, or any other metrics. Doing so does not reduce the happiness of a male spouse.
Seriously. His words make him sound deranged.
Second tigger – my marriage is on equal footing.
But…one of the problems with equality in marriage, at least for people like Charlie Kirk, is that a woman will have freedom to leave. A submissive woman, especially one who turns any money she has over to her husband, has many fewer choices. I’ve known a lot of women who stayed with a husband they didn’t love, in some cases one who abused them, because they had no money, no job training, no experience. They had few choices, and most of the ones they had were…less than attractive.
My husband and I stay together because we want to stay together. He knows I could leave at any time; I know he could. That makes our bond stronger, because the fact that we are still together means something.
This is not what Charlie Kirk wanted. He wanted to tie women into relationships that are more slavery than relationship, that are impossible for them to leave. That’s the secret to low divorce rates; make it where there are no choices.
My beloved wife and I have been together for 47 years, and married for 45 of them. She comes from a devout Presbyterian family and, in keeping with that is herself likewise a devout Presbyterian. She keeps a Bible (KJV) on her bedside table and reads from it every night after getting into bed. And this has been her practice all the way through.
I, in contrast, have been an empiricist and a freethinker since my late teens. But we get along just fine. Whenever we go together to church, I always find food for thought in the service, though commonly not as the parson probably intends.
For a joke, I downloaded and printed off the stuff on the link below, stuck it up on the door of the kitchen cupboard, and invited her to “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest,” as St Paul would recommend.
Her response? “That’s a load of bullshit.!!!” (She has never been averse to the sort of plain speaking that would shock the local parson to the very core of his being.)
My reponse: “Whaaaat? Are you saying that the Bible is bullshit.?” Her reply: “Those bits of it are.!”
I am glad that we do not live in Mediaeval times. For that, she could have been hauled before the Inquisition on a charge of heresy. Or something. In its own way, selective belief is a form of freethought, IMHO. ;-)
https://www.openbible.info/topics/wife_submit_to_your_husband