Empowered Women; Hindsight

When women liberated themselves in the 1970's they went for economic equality and they went for mens' jobs. They were successful in the west and in Europe for the most part of achieving these objectives.

The cost was broken families and multiply divided resources, energies and lives; fathers who couldn't find work or pay child support, kids raised by single parents confused and sad and missing dad's fishing trips and warnings of danger in life, trashed traditional role models, and a lot of unhappiness. Ensuing liberated generations also cranked out the first big time psycho killers of our society, Jack the Ripper, Hitler not-with-standing. Men ended up doing traditional women's work and lost respect in the eyes of their children and there is the legacy of kids raving on coke, ecstacy and dope and abusing their teachers and old people. Disrespect is a sign of our liberated times and generalizing of this attitude puts lots of kids behind bars or on the streets on substance abuse. Kids were confused about role models. Moms became dads and dads became moms and many confused kids were lured by gays into alternate life styles.

What women ended up with is the tough, lonely, expensive job of raising kids by themselves, mostly boring dirty crummy jobs which men used to quietly endure, and boyfriends who don't give a hoot about someone else's kids. 95% of jobs are boring, tedious and menial. To keep her house, I saw one woman turn her home into a grow-op and turn her 13 year old son into a dope dealer. Welcome to liberation!

Just forgot one thing. Love is the greatest power. Women always had it but many forgot. They didn't need to destroy so many lives to find it or maybe they did. Cultural evolution is often painful. As the center of the home, as the nucleus of love, a woman wielded enormous power. The most successful people in society today, come from traditional families where there is a father and mother at home who love each other and want and love their children and provide clear role models.

In all of nature, there is no better model for raising offspring than a solid family with both parents and clear roles for offspring to model. The enormous tonnage of goose poop in our parks proves my point. Yes, exceptions do appear but they are just that, exceptions.

There were good things to emerge from liberation. It became easier to leave abusive situations. Some women got more money. Freedom feels good for a few days til the bills come and you have to hire baby-sitters. Men got to hedge their bets that some poorly-cared-for kids would survive by spreading their genes around the country.

Many women threw out the baby with the bathwater.It just went too far and a lot of women forgot about the power of love. That love is inside all of us. The most empowering thing in the world, is to give that love away to your children and spouse and leave a legacy of happy functional loving offspring.