When people are in college, they often are so sure that there is one right way to live life. When people have graduated and are out in the real world, they realize that there is no one right way, no ONE definition to any term (such as feminism), no one rule by which they should live.
If True Love Revolution is espousing that no one should have sex before marriage, that is sheer bloody arrogance. There is NO WAY that college students can know enough about the real world to make a pronouncement or even a recommendation like that for all people. So a person who is 40 years old and has never been married... is that person never supposed to have had sex?
Having had the whole experience of love and marriage and kids, I would come down even harder on TLR than you have, Lena. Their position statement on feminism is a subtle throwback to the dark ages. It says nothing about the possibility of stay-at-home dads; only glorifies stay-at-home moms (and doesn't mention the fact that they are unpaid for the most difficult job in the world). And what is this nonsense about a "special bond" between mothers and children, witnessed in animals and other humans? I will be VERY honest here: we mothers love our kids, yes, but that is no different from how fathers love their kids; there is nothing special about the MOTHER-child link. Among animals, mothers take care of their kids because they have to, because the father has usually wandered away. There is no "proof" for what TLR espouses. And the fact that this is all being prattered by kids who have no clue of marriage and parenthood makes it all the more reprehensible.
For their sakes, I can't wait till these TLR students graduate and live in the real world for a while.
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When people are in college, they often are so sure that there is one right way to live life. When people have graduated and are out in the real world, they realize that there is no one right way, no ONE definition to any term (such as feminism), no one rule by which they should live.
If True Love Revolution is espousing that no one should have sex before marriage, that is sheer bloody arrogance. There is NO WAY that college students can know enough about the real world to make a pronouncement or even a recommendation like that for all people. So a person who is 40 years old and has never been married... is that person never supposed to have had sex?
Having had the whole experience of love and marriage and kids, I would come down even harder on TLR than you have, Lena. Their position statement on feminism is a subtle throwback to the dark ages. It says nothing about the possibility of stay-at-home dads; only glorifies stay-at-home moms (and doesn't mention the fact that they are unpaid for the most difficult job in the world). And what is this nonsense about a "special bond" between mothers and children, witnessed in animals and other humans? I will be VERY honest here: we mothers love our kids, yes, but that is no different from how fathers love their kids; there is nothing special about the MOTHER-child link. Among animals, mothers take care of their kids because they have to, because the father has usually wandered away. There is no "proof" for what TLR espouses. And the fact that this is all being prattered by kids who have no clue of marriage and parenthood makes it all the more reprehensible.
For their sakes, I can't wait till these TLR students graduate and live in the real world for a while.