“Barefoot and pregnant” simply refers to a woman who is walking around at home, happily preparing for the baby in the most comfortable manner. Keeping your wife barefoot and pregnant means you’re doing what’s expected of a traditional husband, which is allowing her to stay home and be relatively carefree while carrying a baby to term.
That it became an attack on men is merely evidence that feminists are a spiteful, envious lot. How many of the early lesbian feminists of the 60s and 70s could say they had pregnant wives who were contentedly walking around without shoes? How many could say so today?
It’s all just sour grapes, as it always has been. A barefoot and pregnant wife is almost always happier than a trussed up working wife, so when keeping her “barefoot and pregnant” men are doing their wives a favor.
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@anothga
"But what about those women who don't want to be "barefoot and pregnant"? What about those women who want to have a career? Do they not matter?"
Do those kind of women exist in fundieland? I know they exist in the real world.
As a Floridian, I tend to be barefoot and not pregnant. It pleases me not to be pregnant, and I wear shoes when it pleases me. And now, WTF, buckle off to Fluffalo.
Pregnancy, in my opinion, is the worst thing ever.
I asked my mother once about her pregnancies with my brother and I, respectively.
Her response was something along the lines of, "It was horrendous. The heartburn was the worst I have ever experienced and my bladder remains ruined after giving birth to two abnormally large children as well. But I suppose you two aren't terrible..."
Well, that's just great. He actually WANTS to keep women cooped up at home and pregnant all the time.
WTF Price is such a sad sack.
And if Price were to find a woman who accepted this kind of arrangement, he'd be making posts about his lazy, pampered wife who stays home all day "doing nothing" while he has to go out and work.
This isn't about men or women Price. You're just a bitter, petty little individual.
Uh, no. That phrase, including the "barefoot" part, refers not to comfort but to keeping the woman captive, in a vulnerable position from which she can not escape.
Or you could give her slippers and a back rub after a day of working. I know this is hard to comprehend but some women LIKE to work. And some simply hate being cooped up in the house. The "keeping them barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the stove" comment (the last part of which you conveniently omitted) refers to the fact that they don't have a choice in the matter. If a woman wants to be a housewife, fine. If she'd rather work or feels like it's her duty, then let her work.
Hillary Clinton. has been pregnant.
In the past .
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Just over two years to go. Prepare to shit your entire digestive tract out, after that DIY warehouse-load of bricks, W.T.F. Price. >:D
@Mikgof: Citation needed. Looking around the internet, there are well-attested written examples of the phrase "barefoot and pregnant," but the elaborated version seems to always be "American saying" or "something I once heard." Also, there's less than a hundred total Google results for your version in quotes, with and without the word "and," in contrast to over 1 million for "barefoot and pregnant." Sounds like a folk etymology/urban legend to me.
"How many of the early lesbian feminists of the 60s and 70s could say they had pregnant wives who were contentedly walking around without shoes?"
Not a lot, I suspect. I'm pretty sure a lesbian wouldn't have been able to marry a woman in the first place back then.
It's obvious that you can't get pregnant. Otherwise, you'd understand that it's anything but confortable and carefree. And barefoot?, try walking without shoes for a week. As for the lesbianas lot..........did you hear about artificial insemmnation?
Because everyone knows a woman is nothing more than a baby making machine and it's the husband's job to keep that machine filled with semen. Plus, think of the money saved by not buying shoes. Good thinking, WF.
Dammit, Price. Not all feminists are Valerie Solanas.
And while it is comfy to not have to wear shoes, and it's fun to cook (Even if I doubt it'd be too comfortable carrying a baby), if you're forcing them to do that, you're um... No other way to say it. You're an asshole.
I don't really mind if a woman wants to be barefoot and pregnant, as long as she's weighed all the options and is certain it's for her. Of course, WTF here is against that last part.
I don't get why everyone here's against being simply barefoot--I go barefoot (very rarely with socks) almost everywhere indoors outside of public buildings. I'd imagine being pregnant would make it more difficult, but I'm a guy, what do I know?
when keeping her “barefoot and pregnant” men are doing their wives a favor.
Your stupidity stinks, so when I punch assholes like you in the nose, I'm doing you a favor.
First of all, I know two lesbian couples with kids whose highest priority is kids. Second, hooray for them! Third, men are only doing those wives a favor if they care about the pregnancies and kids too. I think there are two branches of idiots in this country who don't acknowledge the importance and responsibilities of children. They're both equally stupid. One is feminists who deny motherhood. How stupid can you be? Women are largely mothers, and any feminism that ignores motherhood is the height of fantasy. The other is the men that ignore motherhood. Children are important in society. Even if you choose not to have them, they are really important and asking the people who have them to "do that on their own time" is crazy suicide.
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@Mikgof: Citation needed. Looking around the internet, there are well-attested written examples of the phrase "barefoot and pregnant," but the elaborated version seems to always be "American saying" or "something I once heard." Also, there's less than a hundred total Google results for your version in quotes, with and without the word "and," in contrast to over 1 million for "barefoot and pregnant." Sounds like a folk etymology/urban legend to me.
KEEPING your wife barefoot and pregnant, means that she can't escape; she can't run as she has no shoes, and she's always pregnant, so she's too busy with all the kids to have time to plan an escape. If your wife really is happy, you don't need ways to stop her from leaving you.
Lesbians aren't sterile, stupid; they can force themselves to have sex with a man, in order to become pregnant. A gay couple and a lesbian couple could share a child this way. Today, the lesbian couple can get donor sperm and an IVF treatment in many countries. The gay couple need a surrogate womb too, of course.
In Sweden, pregnant women have the right to paid leave, ten days before the supposed "due" date. She can keep herself, whether barefoot or shod, in other words.
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No, that's not what it means. And that's not even remotely how it was for women. Women had to work, back in the day, outside in the fields or fixing the house or going to the market or tending to the animals etc. Didn't matter if they were knocked up or had kids already. Even in the glorified 50s women weren't "carefree," they fucking did work. And being pregnant is damn hard on a woman's body, especially later on. It's no magical fantasy cake walk.
Obviously plenty of women do want to work. Women with children who would rather have jobs than be a housewife. And plenty of women don't want children at all. Shithead misogynists simply can't understand that it's all about choice. If you can choose what you want to do you will be happier for it.
I'd tell my wife that, but I won't. I don't like hospital food.
Seriously, though, this moron Price consistently shows himself to be the most sexist of sexist pigs - with apologies to real pigs. I get the feeling he will die a virgin.
Jen: Feminists do not ignore the fact that most women are or become mothers. Feminists simply want women to have all the same choices that men have when it comes to education, career, and family. Feminists object to women being slated as mothers. Feminists want mothers to be respected. A higher burden is placed on women when it comes to children and family and they are expected to make more sacrifices. Men are not held to the same expectations. Society has a greater concern for children, in general. A woman with a child is valued over a homeless adult with a mental illness, for instance, and there are multiple welfare programs specifically for children. Government assistance does still need to be improved for mothers and families, of course, but it needs to be improved for everyone. The human race isn't going to die out anytime soon regardless of whether or not women gain equality.
Look, WTF Price, some women like being barefoot and pregnant. There's nothing wrong with that. However, not all of them do. Learn that, will ya?
You do realize that a lack of shoes has typically been associated with poverty in western culture, right? A man who kept his wife barefoot and pregnant was considered a lout, a loser. It was his peers' way of acknowledging that this was a fool who could knock his wife up just fine but couldn't afford shoes for her, let alone their ever-increasing brood. It has never been seen as a positive state of affairs.
All that said, good troll.
My own (fundie) wife loves being a mother, but hated being pregnant. She went severly depressed, especially between months 5 & 7. When she finally gave birth, I could read terror in her eyes - and she's not easy to impress.
Now she is happy with our wonderful daughter(me too), but is not motivated at all to have a second child(plus, at age 41, it's dangerous anyways). I remind the reader that she is a fundie, reading the Bible daily, following the church on internet on sunday mornings, asking her husband to go to the church in the afternoon(and husband is nuce/stupid enough to accept), who believes in creationism, and so on.
Yet, while she'd like another child, she is not motivated for another pregnancy. The price to pay is too high. She's probably not the only one.
Addendum.
Most women I know who have been on maternity leave, say they longed to get back to work, to the peace and order in the office, and to have grown-ups to talk to.
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