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What does "traditional family values" mean? (Original Post) Rocknrule Jun 2014 OP
Racism and Theocracy FiveGoodMen Jun 2014 #1
The old right-wing model of the family shenmue Jun 2014 #2
Patriarchal social order, where by women must submit. betterdemsonly Jun 2014 #3
Yep etherealtruth Jun 2014 #4
Hate and bigotry n/t arcane1 Jun 2014 #5
Watch a few episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best" for examples. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #6
I always thought "Pleasantville" except even more exaggerated Rocknrule Jun 2014 #8
They better get some vegetables in there one of these days Warren DeMontague Jun 2014 #10
Which means there ain't no such thing and there never has been. Squinch Jun 2014 #12
Exactly. It's a myth of a Golden Age cherished by the right wing. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #13
White, gun toting, Christian ( the right version) with subservient women folk Exposethefrauds Jun 2014 #7
Beating your neighbor with a club and then sharing raw antelope meat with your kids? Warren DeMontague Jun 2014 #9
Seriously... Archae Jun 2014 #11
Racism, homophobia, mysoginy, child abuse...the list goes on TrogL Jun 2014 #14
"Leave it to Beaver"..n/t SoCalDem Jun 2014 #15
Bigots. Lex Jun 2014 #16
It means "you are to live exactly as I want you to" jmowreader Jun 2014 #17
It means if you don't have any family KatyaR Jun 2014 #18
It's reich-wing speak Le Taz Hot Jun 2014 #19
Even if two people really wanted to be a "traditional family", it would be next to impossible. Yavin4 Jun 2014 #20
My parents did it. SevenSixtyTwo Jun 2014 #21

shenmue

(38,501 posts)
2. The old right-wing model of the family
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:02 PM
Jun 2014

Wife can only stay home. Man runs the place, wife and kids subordinate to him. That kind of thing.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
6. Watch a few episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best" for examples.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:05 PM
Jun 2014


Or, just think of cotton candy sweetened with saccharine.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
10. They better get some vegetables in there one of these days
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:12 PM
Jun 2014

otherwise I envision constipation in their future.

 

Exposethefrauds

(531 posts)
7. White, gun toting, Christian ( the right version) with subservient women folk
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:07 PM
Jun 2014

Basically god gun gays and non whites and of course the gay do not exist except in the closet as second class citizens

Think America post WWII and pre 74 civil rights act

The Leave it to Beaver America of TV that never really existed except on TV

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
9. Beating your neighbor with a club and then sharing raw antelope meat with your kids?
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:11 PM
Jun 2014

Nurturing your Trilobite eggs on the Cambrian ocean floor?

Meiosis in a bacterial mat?

How traditional we looking to get, here?

Archae

(46,260 posts)
11. Seriously...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:15 PM
Jun 2014

There are no "traditional" family values.

Family values and rules vary from one family to the next, one family has kids that can't stay married, while others are in stable relationships for decades.

KatyaR

(3,445 posts)
18. It means if you don't have any family
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 05:04 PM
Jun 2014

and have never been married and have no children, you have no value to society.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
19. It's reich-wing speak
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 05:09 PM
Jun 2014

for don't let those gay people get married. Nothing to do with ethnic minorities and everything to do with homophobia.

Yavin4

(35,354 posts)
20. Even if two people really wanted to be a "traditional family", it would be next to impossible.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 05:13 PM
Jun 2014

These right wingers don't believe in raising the min. wage so that a family could live on one income.

 

SevenSixtyTwo

(255 posts)
21. My parents did it.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 07:15 PM
Jun 2014

We were poor as dirt and my parents raised my sister and I in a tiny little cracker box house in Tampa. We didn't have much but we had family. My first wife ran off with a drug dealer and left me with our kids. Current wife and her son joined us to be a traditional family in our own little cracker box house. We like it that way.

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