CONSERVATIVE WOMEN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY

Conservative women have their place it is just that some of them do not know where that place is. This causes social conflict, with not only conservative men but also with other conservative women. I find it interesting to explore this thought.

It appears to me that conservative ideology centers around what some refer as “moral order” meaning everything has to follow biological order. The use of the world ‘moral’ adds confusion. Moral means something is right or wrong, good or evil, without an appreciation in what context they are making that judgment. As a stark example, I enjoy watching nature programs like Animal Planet. A common theme deals with what and how animals eat. Can you see a snake eating a rabbit without wondering what the rabbit considers morally right verses what the snake judges to be right. For a biologist like me; it is biologically correct or “in order” that a snake eats a rabbit. The idea of applying human standards of “morality” to this situation to does not make sense. What it does do is point out that moral order is a product of reasoned judgment.

A modern woman’s place in society is becoming more and more in conflict with her biology; it no longer reasonable. They are becoming free of biological behavioral constraints. As is obvious from considerations of evolutionary psychology there is a behavioral difference between males and females, which is why feminist who demand equality in all things are wrong; there are definable gender differences in our behavior and the way we think about our behavior as there is in most species of animals. Geneticists refer to differences found across many species as being well conserved or innate. This does not imply, for example, that males are always stronger, just that there is a “usually” a difference between genders in respect to social order. Nevertheless, in the human species, the male is stronger. In the conservative mindset, this carries over to “moral order” in many things but is especially obvious in family structure. The husband is the hunter and the wife is the gatherer, the wife is the one who takes care of the children while the husband is the one who maintains order. If a wife or child misbehaves, it is not only biologically wrong not to punish that wife and child but also “morally wrong”. The head of the household has to maintain moral order. The conservative male expects the conservative wife to accept this. However, more and more, conservative wives are not accepting “this”—as their “lot in life”; they are demanding their “freedom”. I am directing this blog post at the conservative women who do not accept their lot in life as conservative wives by asking the question, “Why are you still voting conservative?” I know several successful families and business run by single or abandoned women who are strong conservatives. Why are you voting against your own success?

When these things do happen, what is it that makes them acceptable to a conservative male? The answer to that it is part of the slave-slave owner mentality. Two slave owners brag about the abilities of their slaves. It is only acceptable to have a slave that works hard or is smart because he “owns” that slave; therefore, the slave’s ability is his ability. A wife that successfully manages a household with children is acceptable as long as there is the husband “in charge”. A single mother is an abomination—a fatherless household is morally wrong. A poor family accepting food stamps to live is bad enough but a single mother accepting food stamps is abominable—she must have a husband because it is the “moral order”.

Ask yourself the questions of abortion and birth control; who in the family decides to use birth control? Why is the only marriage that is morally right between one man and one woman? Is it OK for a woman to work outside the home? Is it OK for a woman to earn more than her husband? Is it OK a woman earns less, for doing the same job, as a man? What is a conservative attitude toward a macho woman or an effeminate man? Why is homosexuality so wrong? These things and many more all have two thing in common; one, they violate the strongly held conservative “moral order” and two; they are Republican political party positions.

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