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Stay at home? Women are too smart to be told what to do

July 18th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Sandra Parsons

PUBLISHED:

17:36 EST, 17 July 2012

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17:36 EST, 17 July 2012

So there you have it. Women’s intelligence — according to the latest IQ research — is now greater than men’s.

What on earth are we to do with all this extra brain power, I wonder? Solve the Middle East crisis? Invent a cure for cancer? Run the country?

Writing in yesterday’s Mail, the historian (and formidably clever former Oxford don) A. N. Wilson had an alternative suggestion.

Interesting reading: New research suggests women's intelligence is greater than men's

Interesting reading: New research suggests women’s intelligence is greater than men’s

Despite our superior brains, he argued that women weren’t as successful as men because they usually had to juggle a job with looking after a family. Therefore, he predicted (with, I suspect, tongue slightly in cheek) that women were so bright that in the future they would opt for doing one thing very well — and concentrate on being good mothers.

I’m indebted to him for this suggestion. So much for progress. So much for the vote. So much for women being able to go to university, drive a car, buy our own homes and have our own bank accounts.

No, he believes we women are best occupied doing exactly what we’ve been doing for most of the past thousand years — staying at home. Never mind that by doing so we would remain dependent for ever on men for our food, clothes and the very roof over our head.

Time for change: A. N. Wilson pointed out that the suffragette movement was started by wealthy women who could afford servants

As for feminism . . . well, Wilson thinks it’s an indulgence of the rich. It was while researching his book on the Victorians that it dawned on him that the feminist movement had been started by ‘wealthy Victorian women, all of whom had servants’.

Women who didn’t have domestic help, he argued, were rather less keen on the idea of equality as it required them to shoulder ever more responsibilities at home and at work.

No, The real reason feminism got underway in late Victorian times is because education and the printed word had made mass communication possible for the first time.

And why did only wealthy women take up the cause? Because the vast majority of their sex were so busy having children that they were too ill and exhausted to demand equality.

For most of that century, women had few legal rights. There was no contraception, and a woman’s body was owned by her husband. That’s why so many women had a baby a year; and it’s why their bodies were wrecked by the time they were 30.

These mothers had no choice — and it’s choice that liberates women.

But as feminists from Mary Wollstonecraft to Emmeline Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf and Gloria Steinem have always known, women only really have a choice when they have their own money and equal rights.

So when men like A. N. Wilson argue that an intelligent woman should opt to stay at home with her children rather than go out to work, what they are really saying is: an intelligent woman should marry a rich man — or, at least, a man who earns enough money to keep his family and pay off the mortgage single-handedly.

That’s not equality, still less a way to encourage or inspire our daughters.

How long would it be, I wonder, before we’d be debating how much money would be saved if girls were educated only until the age of 14? After all, as the Taliban could tell you, there’s little point in educating women too highly when all they need is basic maths for housekeeping and an aptitude for cooking and sewing.

As we all know, that doesn’t make for a happy society. So perhaps the best possible use we women can make of our superior intelligence today is to reflect that what really makes for a strong marriage, contented children and a stable society is mothers who feel happy and fulfilled, however they choose to balance their lives.

For some, that may mean smashing the corporate glass ceiling. For others, it may mean running a home where the sheets are steam-ironed with lavender water and the skirting boards dusted weekly. For most of us, it means simply muddling our way somewhere through the middle.

But you know what, Mr Wilson? We’re clever enough (and liberated enough) to decide for ourselves.

Never trust a man who nags you not to have dessert. For proof of that, take Marie Helvin, who says her first husband, photographer David Bailey, clamped down on her if ever she ate something slightly fattening, warning: ‘Watch out, meaty matey.’ She adds that she didn’t mind ‘as he was looking out for me’. Of course he was, Marie — while also being unfaithful to you throughout much of your ten-year marriage.

Beach body: Elle Macpherson

Elle’s made beach holidays hell…

Model Elle Macpherson, who at 48 still looks beyond sensational, says she is ‘comfortable with ageing and where I’m at’.

But she adds that when she puts on her glasses and sees her face — which has lost elasticity, apparently — she starts ‘to freak out a bit’. Frankly, that’s good to hear, Elle.

Because every time your fellow middle-aged mothers see pictures of your bikini-perfect body, we compare it with our own and find we also ‘freak out a bit’.

In fact, some of us who are about to go on holiday are even having a quiet little weep.

Andrea Leadsom is the fearsomely clever Conservative MP who was the only person who managed to rattle Bob Diamond when he appeared before the Treasury select committee.

She’s also the only member of that committee to have admitted their questions weren’t good enough.

With a reshuffle coming up in September, I’d say hers is a name to remember.

Marks Spencer has parted company with its £944,000-a-year head of general merchandise, Kate Bostock, after clothing sales slumped and has hired Belinda Earl, formerly of Debenhams and Jaeger.

Critics fear that because she will be part-time, working only two or three days a week, she will fail to get a grip.

I’d say three days a week is plenty. Five minutes is all anyone needs to identify the problem — a sea of garish colours, all in slightly the wrong fit.

What they should be selling is exquisitely cut trousers, perfect white shirts and cashmere cardigans and jumpers in navy, sky blue, camel and black (not turquoise and bright pink).

You can’t find classics like these anywhere else on the High Street.

How hard can it be to get it right?

Comfort soles: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood

Sex, drugs and, er, comfy shoes

Asked to sum up the secret of the Rolling Stones’ enduring success, Keith Richards replied, after a moment’s thought, that the band were ‘fascinating and raunchy’ and added: ‘Let’s keep it that way.’

In the past, he and Mick Jagger have always possessed both characteristics, but a photo of the band celebrating their 50th anniversary last week was worrying.

Their shoes would not have disgraced the small ads in Saga magazine: Mick and Keith’s trainers screamed not rock ’n’ roll, but easy fit and comfort soles, while Ronnie Wood appeared to be wearing slippers. This is, in its way, fascinating — but raunchy it ain’t.

I’ve no doubt Henry Dimbleby, who runs the Leon chain of restaurants, is genuine in his desire to improve school dinners.

What I do doubt is that he’s as passionate about it as the human dynamo who put school food on the front pages: Jamie Oliver.

So why has Education Secretary Michael Gove asked Dimbleby to produce yet another new report into school meals? And why has he allowed academies to opt out of the nutritional standards imposed on other schools as a result of Jamie’s campaigning?

Perhaps there are good reasons for his appointment that have nothing to do with the fact Dimbleby, an Old Etonian, and his family spent Easter holidaying with the Gove family in a Moroccan villa.
But it’s difficult to imagine what they might be.

Our MPs left Westminster yesterday for their 47-day break, and many will return to London only briefly — for their freebie Olympic seats. And they wonder why they’re unpopular.

Not so dishy lover

An obscure piece of 16th-century choral music has shot to No 1 in the classical music chart — ousting Pavarotti — because it features in the erotic novel Fifty Shades Of Grey.

Handsome, cultured Christian Grey finds that Thomas Tallis’s haunting Renaissance choral work Spem In Alium somehow enhances his spanking.

I’d never heard of this work. Having listened to it today, I have to say that far from sending me into an erotic frenzy, I found it soporific.

But if you’re still tempted to pop the CD and the novel into your trolley, it’s worth pausing to consider author E. L. James’s views on her hero. ‘Living with someone like that would be hell on earth,’ she told fans in America.

‘At the end of the day, we want someone who’s going to do the bloody dishes.’ Quite.

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Smart women? Have you never watched the average woman trying to work out how to use a cashpoint machine?

– Martin, Earth, 18/7/2012 08:34

I thought he was saying that women in this generation have been told they can do it all when in reality most of them are knackered trying to juggle a job, enough time with their children and keeping relationships together. He says women don’t have the killer instinct in business, most women I know would behave like a tigress to protect their children, perhaps for a majority that’s why. Why women with young babies feel a terrible pull when thy have no choice but to go back to work. In a society that has taken away the help in tax allowances to leave it between a couple to decide the childcare. When you can’t do all of those things properly or it’s making you and your family miserable then sometimes something has got to give. Again you typify a S.A.H.M as someone who splashes lavender over steam ironed sheets, dusting the tops of skirting! For those who choose the hard job to educate and nurture children at home and still get knackered as in any physical job, it’s patronising.

– Mrs. B, GB, 18/7/2012 08:26

So if women want their own income and are so intelligent why split up the family unit so children grow up without fathers rather than INVENTING a workable system in which women could be paid while raising children and then work at other times if so desired so that everybody wins? Media and advertising fueled narcissistic hedonism is the most likely reason, that and the fact that women don’t appear to do inventing.

– leew, lancashire, 18/7/2012 08:10

It amases me that a feminist thinks that she is so clever whilst also proving that she doesn’t understand the issues concerned!
A woman is a woman! she has a womb, she is designed to have children. It is her CHOICE weather to have children or not. It is not down to an over opinionated, blinkered and poorly educated feminist to dictate that all women should “rebel against their male rulers”.
Feminism is the cause of social breakdown, family instability and the rise in teenage pregnancy and STI’s. Its about time those who advocated such ideals were firmly told to keep their doctorine to themselves.

– DAFT, Balmoral, 18/7/2012 08:04

You sure N.Wilson is a man ??

– Ged B, Bristol Uk., 18/7/2012 07:08

absolute rubbish , the academic social engineers in the education dept and the teachers unions have been feminising education for decades, girls don’t do well in exams ? mark course work higher, girls don’t do well in sciences? invent other courses, we need science graduates? dumb down the sciences to help the girls, the dropout and failure rate of females at university is due to the step to requiring knowledge rather than memory even with the same system at university since the depth of teaching is greater if not much better, just how many photographers , journalists, media designers and at critics does the country need?

– expo 11, norwich, 18/7/2012 04:47

Feminism is the strange notion that the sexes can be made more equal by concentrating entirely on the viewpoint and life experiences of one sex whilst pretending, entirely irrationally, that the other side of the human race always had it made and that woman is the perpetual victim. Thinking about it, feminism fits in entirely with the mentality of the UK female. One thing my life has taught me is that stupidity isn’t distributed according to IQ or gender and that people believe in the rightousness of something when they stand to gain from it. Feminists should read this post very carefully and think about why feminism is a problem for our society. They won’t though, because this post is a logical critiqe of their religion. We all know that is a pointless waste of breath. Belief systems, the ‘isms, are impervious to logic and common sense. It’s a well trodden flaw in human nature and why we follow loonies over cliffs.

– wibble, No taxation without representation!, 18/7/2012 04:44

Feminism is the strange notion that the sexes can be made more equal by concentrating entirely on the viewpoint and life experiences of one sex whilst pretending, entirely irrationally, that the other side of the human race always had it made and that woman is the perpetual victim. Thinking about it, feminism fits in entirely with the mentality of the UK female. One thing my life has taught me is that stupidity isn’t distributed according to IQ or gender and that people believe in the rightousness of something when they stand to gain from it. Feminists should read this post very carefully and think about why feminism is a problem for our society. They won’t though, because this post is a logical critiqe of their religion. We all know that is a pointless waste of breath. Belief systems, the ‘isms, are impervious to logic and common sense. It’s a well trodden flaw in human nature and why we follow loonies over cliffs.

– wibble, No taxation without representation!, 18/7/2012 04:43

Feminists defy their own wishes for equality with every sentence they utter. Men dont get help. For as long as the phrase “good on her” or “you go girl” exists, no one will take you seriously. If you want to do it, do it. Don’t spout.

– Shawn, Newbury, 18/7/2012 04:04

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