By Anonymous age 69
From time to time someone on The Spearhead will comment that conservative men are manginas, or have some similar defect, because they have daughters. And, worry only about their daughters to the exclusion of defending men’s basic rights.
I guarantee you I am pretty conservative. Some years ago, my best friend really laughed when I told him I thought Attila the Hun looked like a left winger from where I sit, and was shocked to see he was viewed as the epitome of a right winger.
My daughter, the one I got to raise, got no slack at all. Why? Because I cared about her and wanted her to be a functional adult, able to marry and be a mother and a wife, as her biology would dictate.
Fathers who give their daughters a P-pass are harming them, and good fathers know this almost instinctively. Don’t confuse bad fathers who happen to identify themselves as conservatives, with good fathers. They are terrible fathers. They couldn’t do a worse job if they hated their daughters. In fact, of my generation of conservative fathers, all the men I knew took the same approach to their daughters that I did. I guess those days are gone?
When she started at the community college, I assume she was facing the Womyn of the college. She came home one day, and asked me, “Dad, why don’t you think women can be in the miiltary?”
I told her, “Imagine with me that we turn out the lights, in the big park down the street, give you and your brother both loaded M-16′s, and shove you into the park. How long do you think you would last?”
She thought a minute and said, “Probably not very long.”
I said, “You are probably absolutely right. Now understand you are a grown woman, as big and strong as you will ever be, and your brother is a little eleven year old boy with a sunken chest. Do you have any idea what he is going to be like when he is 18?”
She thought a minute, gave me a big smile, and said, “Thanks, dad. I wanted to understand.”
I didn’t want to be cruel, so I didn’t point out that if had given her a loaded M-16, and him no more than a combat knife, she wouldn’t have lasted much longer. But, there is a chance she understood that anyway.
I never heard one feminist word from her mouth, ever. Not one.
She is a Christian, a real one. Some time later, I gave her a book, “ME? OBEY HIM?” It is a book written by a Baptist pastor’s wife, with his permission, to teach Christian women why it is for their own good to submit to their husbands. She married in 1997, and has told me, as verified by her husband, they have never had so much as a verbal quarrel in these 15 years. When they have a decision to make, if they do not agree, she says, in a clear voice, “You are the husband. We will do it your way, since you are responsible for us.” Her professional training was as a scientist, She has observed, and almost always when they disagree on something, he was right and she was wrong. And, the very rare time he was wrong, the cost was trivial. She told me “In exchange for this, I get peace in my house!”
Most women do not want peace in their houses. They want to fight, fight, fight, and then get a divorce because the husband is a nasty bastard, always quarreling with her about trivial things. [/sarcasm]
Anyway, that is how a good father raises his daughters, not to be nasty entitlement princesses who are good for nothing and are unable to marry and stay married.
Update: Her brother gained a lot of weight in med school, but is back to 160 pounds, and in UAE runs 7 miles in 125 degree heat. He was upset when he visited McAllen in October, and at 95 degrees couldn’t work up a sweat. With martial arts, he is even tougher than I predicted. Yet, flabby dearies imagine if it weren’t for evil discrimination, they could be”sojer boys”, too.
