re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I cannot disagree that it is better for kids to grow up in a stable family and social setting. But if the price of that is keeping women barefoot, pregnant and dependent on their husbands good graces, then I do not agree with that “solution”

As somehow whose life was made unstable by the presence of an abusive father (and husband)—and who was surrounded by a community that either refused to see his behavior, or argued to ignore it because “you’ve got to keep the family together”—I have rather strong feelings about the right wing’s tendency to elide “stable family” to mean “family with a husband and a wife.”

Because when the chips are down, the anti-feminists that insist upon the presence of a father also have elaborate excuses for his bad behavior, and how everyone else should accommodate it. Which is exactly where Murray, by way Gilder, is going with claims about the need for women to civilize men. Bad behavior by a guy isn’t his fault, some woman didn’t “civilize” him right.