Fox Guest Encourages Female Host To Quit, Get Married, Have Babies

[mollywobbles867]

Fox News ran a segment entitled “You Do Need A Husband!” on Sunday. Their guest, founder of the site ‘Women for Men’ Suzanne Venker, was on to argue that women are trying too hard to reduce their reliance on men. Her appearance followed up on her article “Why women still need husbands,” published Friday on Fox’s website.

In the piece, Venker

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[darth_eldritch]

Fuck all of this. Being dependent on a man, on anyone, is the last thing I want.

[romp]

At a practical level, it's dangerous! Always has been. I don't know how parents ever set their daughters up that way.

[darth_eldritch]

It is dangerous.

My mother all but tried to force me into a mold where I would be dependent on a man. No moral support for me to grow up into an independent woman. Probably because that's the only thing she knew, but then again she's a raging ultra right winger who refuses to see the world any other way than her own.

It's been a hell of a fight to be independent, and it's still a struggle.

[roseofjuly]

This. My mom was a SAHM until I was 16, when she went to school to fulfill a lifelong dream of being a nurse. Not only did she explicitly tell me - during both phases of her life - to never be a stay-at-home mom and never leave the workforce completely if I could help it, I also witnessed the marked difference between SAHM mom and working mom. SAHM Mom always had to ask for money from my dad (who made sure to mete it out in the most autocratic and degrading way possible), didn't have her own car (and therefore had to rely on Dad to get everywhere), and was essentially trapped. She also, by her own admission, felt quite worthless and sort of...beneath my dad, even though she did have part-time and odd jobs at several times during my childhood

[romp]

Go working mom! I think it's ideal if a parent can stay with a child for a few years but there's no "right" parent to stay home and it's not for everyone (just like having children). Before that though, *everyone* has to have a skill.

Does your mother SAY not to be dependent or did you just watch and learn? It occurs to me now that my father told me things in reaction to bad relationships other women in the family had. He told me to leave if a man hit me and not to go back (he said he'd get my things which I now know he did for his mother when she remarried) and he said my sister's relationship was in trouble when her guy gave her an allowance (of mostly her money). He was an entitled child in terms of expecting my mother to care for him but he did come through for me. :)