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I have recently found a website that is like a compilation of insanity. Let me try to explain it, this website looks like what you'd get if you took every single stereotypical traditionalist view and tried to parody it. When I first found it I read just one article, chuckled, then decided to check another one. I wound up reading dozens of articles and feeling myself fall deeper and deeper into the rabbithole. It was madness beyond what I can describe, but I post it here to get some sense of catharsis.

The Thinking Housewife

Just to help you out I have a list of links where she speaks of transsexuals, tattoos, desegregated education (gender and racial), pizza, women's communes in Kenya, Bachmann and Palin (not what you think), slutwalks, and much much more.

Yes each of those phrases leads to a magnificent post. I've heard her described as fractally wrong, she's wrong overall, but however much you zoom in she remains equally wrong.

EDIT: I flat out forgot one of her most amazing posts! Why we must discriminate which explains why it is imperative that we once more begin voluntarily discriminating against women in the workforce! See, there's so much magnificent crazy that I can't include it all!

Why is this in P&T? The ramblings of crazy people do not qualify unless they are speaking on matters theological or philosophical. I find neither of those in these examples my friend.

That said, the writer is observing a problem(s) that is real in modern society. However they go about it assbackwards in solving by ignoring data and instead clinging to their preconceived ideas. For example, black students on average do score lower then white students. It has been established however that black parents are less involved (again on average) in their childern's education and that the children themselves place less value on it (this is heartbreaking considering the early community leaders emphasize on education, Booker T Washington worked his ass off to set up Tuskegee whatever else his faults, George Washington Carver plowed his own damn land to earn money to go to Tuskegee, etc). Instead of observing this and realizing the history that leads them to devalue education, the writer assumes that blacks are in general to stupid and slow to keep up. This happens again in the articles regarding whether or not to keep women in the labor force and so on.

I'll be blunt, divorce is a problem, but the rate of divorce is dropping, has been dropping slowly and steadily since 1996. This frankly is a good thing, continuing to be blunt according to the studies made available to me, the children of single parent families (over 90% being single mothers mainly due to the law on who gets the kid) are vastly more prone to crime, doing poorly in school, sickness, mental illness, poor socialization, suicide and having children in wedlock. In fact some studies suggest that some young males target the daughters of single mothers has easy. If I run into one of these guys the question will be do I lead off with my left hand or my right? Nevermind. A major part of the problem is frankly single parents lack the time and resources that a duo parent family has, they have to work to feed everyone but every hour working is one where the child has no parent available. And of course, almost all single parents are poorer then two parent families.

Some of her commenters get starry eyed talking about the eastern practices of arranged marriage. That's not a solution. You know why those work so well? Because the guy is allowed to sleep around with no social consequences and if the women leaves her husband her family disowns her and she ends up on the street. I won't even discuss the level of violence that occurs.

In short the writer is seeing some real problems but the solutions are choked with her(?) preconceptions and utter lack of study of the problem. Meanwhile in the real world, it ain't that simple.

frigidmagi wrote:Why is this in P&T? The ramblings of crazy people do not qualify unless they are speaking on matters theological or philosophical. I find neither of those in these examples my friend.

Because I couldn't figure out where else to put it. Feel free to move it somewhere more suitable.

I'd vote for moving it to "Fantasy & Comics."