This vid includes the anti-feminist YouTuber, Pearl. Her condemnation of feminism destroying marriage, destroying the bedrock of society is spot on.
Her opponents make it personal, asking if she could live up to the commitment of marriage. Pearl laughed and said it is about choice. Once you make the decision, it's not about your happiness but the children. Profound.
Not profound. Her view doesn't include OLDER couples who can no longer HAVE children. While she mentioned SOME of the vows, she left others out...like the vow to "love, honor and cherish". She seems to put MORE weight on the "...till death do us part" rather than give equal weight to ALL of the vows. Interesting that NONE of the vows mentions anything about 'happiness' or 'children'. Hmmmm...
Then she goes on to challenge feminist who want equality, telling them to go be equal. Take an equal responsibility for the jobs that are needed to make our society run like oil rigging, plumbing, carpentry, building, engineering, construction, etc. Her position is until feminists take an equal responsibility for society, they should not vote. Allowing women to vote splits the family, she says. Wow!
May I remind you that during WW1 women DID enter the workforce to take the jobs that men couldn't do because they were overseas? Women WERE in oil rigging, mining, plumbing, carpentry, building, farming, engineering, construction, etc. And no, they weren't only acting in menial jobs in those industries, like being a clerk and sorting mail. WW1 ended in November 1918. It would take TWO MORE YEARS before women were allowed to vote NATIONWIDE. So, Pearl ought to do a little more research in history before making such a blatant statement that says that until women "take an equal responsibility for society, they should not vote." The women involved with war efforts of WW1 DID take that "equal responsibility" then, and they STILL weren't ALLOWED TO VOTE.
And in WW2, nearly 6 MILLION women--married and single--joined the workforce back. Several hundred women served in combat roles, in addition to flying planes, both military and commercial. They served as truck drivers, electricians, hauled hay to grain elevators and plowed the fields. They BUILT ships, aircraft, hand weapons and the very bombs and munitions used in them. They built vehicles and served as SPIES for the Office of Strategic Services. They operated stamp presses in machine shops, drill presses, lathes, punch machines, riveting guns and welding irons. They worked as mechanics and radio operators, etc. Several HUNDRED women also worked on the Manhattan Project. That's right, the project that built the atom bomb.
All those jobs were traditionally male jobs. The women in those jobs were being paid about 56% of what their male counterparts received. And once the war was over, most of the women in those positions were FIRED, not because of any wrongdoing but in order to 'make way' for the men returning from overseas. It was expected that the women would return to their 'duties' as a wife and homemaker after the war.
(I'm willing to BET those women weren't
told that when they were hired.)
But why did they HAVE to? These women obviously PROVED that not only could they do a 'man's job', but that they could do the job AND take care of the kids, the house, etc.
Fast forward to today.....
Women ARE in the fields mentioned. They're not in them in droves, but feminism paved the way for women to enter those fields IF THEY CHOOSE...just like MEN have the freedom to choose if they want to be Stay-At-Home-Dads. Do you frown on SAHD's because many are no longer CHOOSING to be on oil riggs, carpenters, plumbers, etc?
Funny that Pearl mentioned "in sickness and in health." Does that mean that a woman should take care of a man when HE is sick. What about when SHE is sick?
Many men BAIL on their wives when it comes to their wife's sickness. I'm good friends with a man today whose wife is terminal. Does it make him LESS 'masculine' if he takes care of his wife at home? If he takes care of the day-to-day activities, such as laundry, cooking, shopping, paying the bills, making beds, doing dishes, cleaning whatever messes she makes?