When will mothers stand up and change the world?

To all of you mothers out there.

There are so many things that are wrong with our society.
Women and children are starving, homeless, undereducated, unappreciated and abused.
We spend money on war instead of education, health care, poverty or peace.

The reason:
It’s a man’s world.
So mothers should take responsibilty for the ways of this world.
You raised these men, every one of them.
You did not instill in them morality.
You did not teach them to be just or kind or compassionate.
You taught them how to treat women and children.
You taught them how to talk to us and about us.
You taught them what a woman is, what a family looks like and how to love.
And your daughters learned from you to accept abuse of themselves and their children.
And they die everyday by the hands of the men they love.

These men are your sons.

(I am, btw, both a son and a father...! ;-)

to ejaculate responsibly!

overrides what the mother teaches.

and fucking up all our hard work as soon as our kids confront it?

Changing the world isn't a mother's job. The world is what it is. Creating and raising a reasonable human being to enter it is her job and most mothers do an exemplary job of that.

Personally, I think that's sufficient labor to put on the shoulders of any woman and most of the world's mothers do it while also doing the mule work of the world plus all her husband's emotional shitwork.

One of the most destructive fictions in the world is that the hand that rocks the cradle will somehow rule the world. That's only true until the kid is old enough to leave the cradle and enter kid culture.

If you want to change the world, tell men to change it. They broke it, it's their damn job to fix it.

Now y'all have to excuse me, the baby's crying, the two year old tried to stuff the cat into the toilet and they're both unhappy, I have to start making a costume for the six year old's Easter play and I have to be at work in another hour.

That's what mothers are doing, people, and it's enough.

Tell the truth, Sister Warpy! :D Tell it!

I don't need another job, thanks. I'm just barely surviving as it is. Sheesh!

Mothers are doing what they have done through all of humanity ....all of civilization's history! This is seen as "women's work".

Blame the mother.

Tell me, just when do these MEN who were also involved in the creation of these kids, stand up and take responsibility of THEIR actions?

Just when do the MEN who run the countries, who run the businesses, who control most of the world stand up and take RESPONSIBILITY for their actions?

THAT never happens. But hey, the scapegoat is always going to be the mother.

is going to do nothing to improve anything. But it will piss off a lot of mothers of male children. (And probably a lot of the wonderful men of DU, as well.)

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I heard stories from the street kids of being taken from admittedly abusive homes and put into homes where the foster "parents" were taking in kids just for the money and otherwise treated them badly. (Some had wonderful foster homes, but it was really random.)

Then, on top of it, they were kicked out on their own at the age of 18. Now personally, if I had a foster child who reached age 18, I'd hope that I'd let them stay on until they finished school, but evidently, a lot of foster parents don't want the kids after the money stops.

and also the daughter of a fucked up WWII veteran. I believe it has taken generations of emotional scars, whether they be due to poverty, or war, to create all this misery. What goes in is what comes out. From the cradle to the jail.

Why do young men buy into this macho, military, patriotic propaganda? The military turns these men into murderers during times of war. They become something they don't recognize and the guilt and shame doesn't go away. And what really affects them is what is done to women and children. In modern war, it is women, children, and elderly who are 70 to 80% of the casualties. The violence to the women is horrendous...and it is encouraged by the military. It has ALWAYS been encouraged in war.

I feel so sorry for poor people who see the military as the only way out of poverty...of course GWB has made it that way.

I can't wait for the day when the rich boys start a war and no one shows up to fight it.

Violence is glorified in our culture...did you see the Oscars last night? 'No Country for Old Men' won everything...total violence. Imagine what the country does to women? Our culture is experiencing an overload of machoism and testosterone....and teaching young women that they are good for nothing but sex really pisses me off. We have the MSM to blame for that!

we are a nation of veterans, a nation of wars. We live in a phony society of propaganda and imagery, where form is valued so much more than function. To me it is a 'no-brainer' as to how we got this way. Mass psychosis.

be the one who sees it, and those that suffer from it are in COMPLETE DENIAL....or to cope have accepted religion as an all encompassing answer to their misfortunes.

http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/46294/
According to the Pentagon, there were 2,374 reported cases of sexual assault against women in uniform over the past year. But as the saga of military police officer Suzanne Swift shows, numbers alone don't tell the whole story.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/57/17327
Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 30 January 2006

In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq.

Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.

The latrine for female soldiers at Camp Victory wasn't located near their barracks, so they had to go outside if they needed to use the bathroom. "There were no lights near any of their facilities, so women were doubly easy targets in the dark of the night," Karpinski told retired US Army Col. David Hackworth in a September 2004 interview. It was there that male soldiers assaulted and raped women soldiers. So the women took matters into their own hands. They didn't drink in the late afternoon so they wouldn't have to urinate at night. They didn't get raped. But some died of dehydration in the desert heat, Karpinski said.

How many children have you raised? Did they turn out to be perfectly modeled in the manner you made them, or did they become human beings?

oh and by the way, did you ever think a father might have a small part in raising childre, or is everything my fault since I've got the uterus? Or will you tell me how men never raise children, despite all evidence to the contrary?

Their peers and their teachers have a lot of sway and influence, more than I had realized (and I was a high school teacher before kids--I just didn't think it happened that early). My daughter has learned from her friends at school that being popular is more important than being smart, and my son has learned that toy guns are great fun and that he wants to be a cop. They didn't learn that here at home, that's for sure.

I'm fighting popular culture here. I censor what they watch at home, we talk about what I do let through, we talk about how our faith needs to be lived and how to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I do my best with my health problems and all--and then they go to school and learn all about shows I won't let them watch (even have had teachers show them those shows in class!), music that I don't allow at home, and games that encourage sexist behavior.

So, unless we all band together (which even Dems can't do, let alone all mothers), bad things are going to continue to happen.

opportunity listening. loved it.

The post is about RESPONSIBILITY.

you might see how you couch your OP in terms that women have heard from the beginning of time; about how everything is our fault (not the fathers' and certianly not the fault of the people themselves). I don't need this shit from you in this forum.

Glad to know the love is spread all around...

Goes a long way.

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ALL adults, not just parents and certainly not just mothers need to stand up and change the world.

nice one.

Which I think is just pathetic. Men don't give a shit what women think of them (unless they are trying to get laid). Women need to get some self esteem,and a backbone and stand up for what's right, not just roll over because men might not find them attractive. The way many women demean Hillary (or any other strong woman) is a prime example. A man of quality is not intimidated by a woman of equality.

You mothers? LOL

Okay, I'm open to suggestions.

What do you propose mothers specifically do that fathers don't have to do at all because it's a man's world?

we bathe them, we dress them. When a man does anything for his children, he expects to be praised to the skies for "helping out." It's OUR JOB and every mother I know has complained of feeling like a single parent from time to time.

Don't kid yourselves that your contribution is equal, it isn't. It might or might not be an essential one. That's up to you, not us. We could use the help, though.

However, once those kids are out in the world, in school, in sports, on the playground, don't blame us when the larger world takes over. We did what we could. At the end of the day, if the kid is warm, fed, clean and clothed and in bed, we did our job.

and work to educate/fix the larger world - the OP fails to mention it. Gutter politics is played 24/7 on women, and women's strengths and fortitude are attacked non-stop.

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kind caring human being and so is DH.

You forget that we are only half the input. Instead of blaming us mothers of boys, please recognize that other people are also educating our sons. How about asking them to change what they do?

Because, as usual, it's easier to blame women. Shame on you.

Oldest line in the book.

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Women have enough to do to deal with that - trying to survive and raise kids amidst it. MEN need to fix what they destroyed - and continue to destroy. MEN run the world, not women.

Children have TWO parents - usually - don't absolve men of their fatherhood duties. It's not all up to women, nor should it be.

We live in a society that without proper support, we easily slip down the cracks and learn to hate ourselves for being who we are. I think both institutional learning facilities and the media have a lot to do with this.