Don't Feed the Trolls ( I mean Feminists)

My friend at the Common Room has a report about THIS articles from Good Morning America.

The Common Room: Another Shot Fired In The Mommy Wars

Some are feeding right into her hand. Didn't we learn on the playground that when someone said something insulting or ugly to us (when we knew we were not wrong) that we just walked away. This is one woman's opinion. It is not a new opinion either. It does not do any good to get defensive.

Though I don't know this for a fact, this author seems to be coming from a secular position and I see this job of being mother and wife as a calling from God. No amount of education (and I have that) or money (don't have that) would make me go back to my old career. God called me to teach children who were learning disabled and now he has called me to be at home with my children and to care for my home.

Do my kids drive me crazy, some days. Do I hate laundry...YES. Do the dishes need to be run? yes. Are they yelling at each other as I write this...yes. But if I didn't have my Savior to pray to each day and to give our day to I would probably not be a great mom. (and I am a great mom according to the people whose opinions matter.)

She is entitled to her opinion just like the little boy on the playground who called me fat was entitled to his opinion. Was he right? Well, that is another story. Controversy makes the news. Ruffling feathers makes the news. Bad news makes the news. My day to day life does not make the news. I have rarely made the news but what goes on in my home on a daily basis is a caller higher than any paid job can fulfill. I am called to love the Lord, my God with all my heart, my mind and my soul. I am called to love my neighbor as myself. I am called to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God. I am called to teach my sons how to do the same.

Comments

[Katie]

Hee hee. I just love you, Amy. ;o) I wrote four different posts on this topic today and deleted all of them! (I finally gave up and posted a hymn.) The first thing I thought of when I saw this woman's opinion all over the place was, "Lady, mind your own business!" The second thing that came to mind was that not only are we not on her team, we are not even playing the same game! She is trolling for money and power; we are attempting to follow and praise the Creator of the Universe and enjoy Him forever. Two distinctly different things. She isn't even on our planet.

[Miss Roxie]

"Do I hate laundry...YES. Do the dishes need to be run? yes. Are they yelling at each other as I write this...yes."

Please tell the dishes and the laundry to stop yelling at each other! It's not nice! :)

I have heard about this woman and her views, too, from the blogs and from the air waves. It's opinion. It's brainwashing. And it's get boring to us because we know have fulfilling this life is, and she and her ilk do not.

Laundry on!

[beth]

Very well said!

I hope that the cookies turned out, and that you had a great visit with your Dad and brother.

blessings~

[elisabeth]

This woman's entire fallacious argument is prefaced on utterly absurd assumptions. She assumes that all marriages, families, and women are the same.

She seems to me to be a pathetic spokesman for "complicated, educated women." She claims that she couldn't be fulfilled doing whatever it is you mother people do. I have always held to the belief that intelligent people don't get bored, that complicated, educated women find ways to fulfill themselves regardless of their employment, position, or environment.

Surely she could create a masterpiece, participate in her child's development, read a great work of literature, write a great work of literature. Hell, she could even have taken the time to realized her book was simply a new twist on the junior high slam book.

In the grand scheme of things, she is but the windbag creating a tempest in a teapot. I'm most puzzled by her reason for caring what other women are doing.