Anti-Feminism

I've been reading various message boards for maybe 7 years now and i swear there is very little that surprises me. There are people that are just stupid. There are people that are (or present themselves) as rich and snotty or piss poor with a chip on their shoulder and act like the world owes them. Then there are those with radical thinking that really feel that the world should follow their lead....

I can't believe that in this day and age a women (and educated one) actually believes that a woman's place is in the home and her single solitary role is nurturing the children and being subservient to her spouse. Sometimes I think the women's movement did screw us over because costs of living and quality of life really depend on having 2 incomes--for most families anyway---but at least we still have a choice.

I don't get it really. The need of some women to remain constantly barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. To never move out of the infant/toddler stage. With me, on one hand I really feel that 4 is our number of children and i probably would have always regretted not trying but at the same time it is soooo much easier now with the older 3. We don't need to pack or plan for a trip, just grab an extra diaper and depending on where we are going, the stroller and we're off. I couldn't imagine spending year after year of married life with a bulging belly.

It really reminds me of the book A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf. Basically a woman not having time or a physical space to herself is a detriment to her writting. That all she needs is solitude to work on herself and her talents.
We went to Black Creek Pioneer Villiage a few weeks ago and in one of the homes there was a room strictly for men, the cigar room, where men were banished to get them out of the woman's hair. So, of course, I ask the guy where was the woman's room and he looked at me kinda stupidly and said the whole house was the woman's room. Really not a great trade off in my opinion since her space is shared with the entire household...yet still her responsibility to take care of and keep clean.

Sometimes I wish i had a place of my own. To do my crafts, to read, to just sit and watch the paint crack without little hands in everything. There really feels like there is nothing that is solely mine and realistically I have zero time to myself....

Anyway back to the regular scheduled rant. I can't believe that any woman would want to bring women back to the dark ages when they were solely dependant on her husband. I can't imagine living that way now. I mean, i spent $375 on kids' clothes a couple days ago. I'd hate to hold out my hand and ask like a child. That's fine for people that don't mind it, but i could never be dependant...ever!