STEVE T. WRITES:

You’ve been posting on father-hunger among children. I’d like to share my story. I live in a fairly well-to-do suburb in the Northeast, in a town characterized by intact families with working fathers, stay-at-home mothers, multiple children, church attendance, and conservatism. (Moving to here from the heart of the city of Boston, where we were regarded as freaks, was a revelation.) 

Our town has a public swim club, where for a fairly modest seasonal fee, families can spend the summer swimming every day, with the men usually joining the fun after work. One summer, I happened to be unemployed, so I sent my wife out on a temp job while I took our children to the pool. (more…)

  GAIL AGGEN WRITES: May you always walk with God, may you rejoice with the companion of your youth until you are old and full of years, may your children rise up and call you blessed, may you dance at your grandchildren's weddings, may your barns be ever full to overflowing, may you die a happy and a well-prepared death in your warm bed when you are a little old raisin of a woman, and in the meantime, may your computer and your keyboard, as did the clothes and shoes of those who fled the Pharaoh of Egypt, not wear out until your journey's end, even though you put them to vigorous use daily in defense of the truth.

EZEKIEL BULVER, as mentioned by a commenter in the previous thread, is the imaginary inventor of a logical fallacy. Bulver is the creation of C.S. Lewis, who said he would write a biography of the great inventor but never did.

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RITA WRITES:

I pray for Mrs. Wood every day (my yahoo calendar reminds me!) because I know she tells the truth and I know she catches a lot of flack for it. I know she is right because up until rather recently I was a feminist and it wasn’t working for me. It’s a bitter lonely way to live. Since you have cursed Mrs. Wood, I am going to respond by blessing her.

Laura, I hope that your marriage stays intact, your husband continues to be your partner, lover and best friend and your children and husband rise up and call you blessed (Proverbs 31:28) later on in life. I pray that in your old age you will be surrounded by loving family, husband, children, grandchildren, sisters, brothers and so on, and have time to reflect on all God has done through as you so graciously shared His truth with others. Your price is far above rubies (Proverbs 31:10). You open your mouth in wisdom and in your tongue is the law of kindness.(Proverbs 31:26)

I pray that God would bless you and your family and enlarge your border, that his hand would be with you and that he would keep your from harm. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)

May you be like a green olive tree in the house of God and may you trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.(Psalm 52:8)

A.C., I pray these blessings on you as well, if you wish to receive them.

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THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU, a professor of English literature, writes in response to the previous post, which is a curse upon the author of this site:

The writer A.C.’s contribution (as one could call it) to The Thinking Housewife interests me as a specimen of contemporary liberal rhetoric – I am particularly struck by the perverse use of the verb to hope in the first, controlling sentence, of the item, ramped up in its perversity by her coupling it with the verb to do, which she uses modally for emphasis. (“Hope” appears again without the modal verb in the second sentence and becomes “to wish” in the second paragraph.) Talk about “the audacity of hope”! A.C. is, of course, trying to be ironic; but irony is a tricky device that requires mastery of understatement, a quality conspicuously missing in the actual construction. I would guess that A.C. is incapable of irony, an intuition that I base on the naked brutality of what amount to invidious curses, offered without embarrassment in a public forum, or let us say a public discussion. What those who cannot bring forth irony invariably conjure when they think they are being ironic is: sarcasm – a Greek term meaning “to beat a victim” or “to flog a corpse.” (The element sarc, in sarcasm, refers to the body, as such.) In modern English usage, sarcasm refers to a low, scapegoating type of verbal behavior in which the speaker feels free to indulge in abuse on the assumption that, for whatever reason, the abused party will not respond in kind.  (more…)

A.C. WRITES:

I do hope that your marriage falls apart, your husband becomes violent, and your children hate you later on in life. I hope that in your old age you are left alone to reflect on all the close-minded and hateful things you have publicly displayed. You are a truly repulsive human being, and a pathetic excuse at that.

I wish nothing but suffering and hardship on you so that you may one day see how the people live that you talk down upon on a daily basis.

Crawl back into your gutter, you pathetic, hapless soul. 

[Note to reader: This is not a parody. As Rosemary said in the movie Rosemary’s Baby at that moment when she awakened in the Satanic lair, “This is really happening.”] 

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Brittany writes:

I have two questions. Do you think God sees men and women as equals? And why do people emphasize female chastity over male chastity? For example in India the ideal woman is a virgin but a man doesn’t have to be a virgin.

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KRISTOR WRITES:

The many recent threads at your increasingly invaluable site on the subject of the intense longing children feel for their fathers has prompted me to reflect upon the great importance of uncles.

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PAULA S. WRITES:

I am absolutely astonished by how blatantly rude and judgmental all of your posts are. I am a wife and mother and I must say your posts are horrifying, you talk of all the lunatics and dismay in this world, but you are one of them!! Your posts are sick, knocking single moms, military moms and other women who do not share the EXACT beliefs as you!! I am a Christian, and I just can not see how anyone who has any claim to be god-like can spread the animosity and hatred of others that you spread! It sickens me to know that my daughter has to grow up in a world with people like you in it, your hatred runs deep in your blood. Maybe its because you are so unsatisfied with your own life, maybe its jealous. Who knows!! I will pray for you and hope that God can show you some guidance in your life and show you how to accept people for who they are. (more…)

IN THE post on the stupidity of smart people, Fitzgerald writes:

Being an intellectual is a curse and a blessing at the same time. I’m not like most people and as such I have little in common with “normal” people who are able to more successfully navigate the world we all inhabit. I often ponder what it would be like to be of a more average intellect, mind you I wouldn’t classify myself as super-smart but I’m quite above the average. But I’m not really willing to give it up either. So I soldier on and work at being more normal and less of a savant. It’s a struggle and it requires lots of mental and psychological gymnastics to meet people were they are and on their terms, something that’s not required of more normal people for the most part.

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IN A PREVIOUS post, readers described the craving of modern children for fathers, a literal hunger that is evident in the eyes.

Dorothy writes:

I live in a big city and I have used public transportation for almost everywhere I go on a daily basis for thirty years and still do. I have seen the starved-for-a-father look on the faces of children on the buses. I notice they can get so attached to a male bus driver. I did not understand this for quite some time. I wondered why these children did not “imprint” on regular male riders. (more…)

SOME VERY SMART people can be stunningly stupid. This is an essential thing to understand whether you yourself are stupid or smart. Intelligence does not guarantee common sense or protection from brain-diminishing ideological forces. (more…)

HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS have found another field of potential conquest: the senior prom. And, they have found a small number of high school students who are willing pawns. But, as a commenter mentions below, perhaps the entire prom tradition should be retired. It’s become a night of excessive excess. 

The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi recently sued a school for not allowing same-sex couples to attend its prom. Now that the school has canceled the event, the ACLU, on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, is suing to have it reinstated. All so a confused girl can take another confused girl to the dance. 

This is yet another example of how liberals openly exploit the young. One of the obvious results of this will be to taint the innocent dancing girls often do with each other when there are not enough boys who will take to the floor. Now there will be sexual connotations to girls dancing with girls. Of course, that’s the least of the damage. The real disaster is the encouragement of lesbianism.

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Izzy Lyman writes:

Doing the work men won’t do? I don’t think so.

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Joanne writes:

I am disgusted and appalled at the slanderous filth you and your readers have posted about Alaina Sheer. You do not know her, you have no right to judge her situation! If you are indeed a “Christian” you would be aware that only God can judge people. (more…)

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