No offense Yeoman, you haven't fallen into a time warp, you just heard the opinions of a few people who have perhaps been around this rock longer than you have and still believe that there are different roles in this life for men and for women, that's not to say that women should be held back from doing anything that they want to in their lives, some of us remember when men supported their families by working outside the home and providing the materialistic needs, women worked inside the home insuring the structure and well being of her family while seeing to the character and education of her children, actually it all worked very well for a lot of eras past,
Today the world has changed, some of the changes have been good, technology has brought new and wonderful advances in medicine, engineering, transportation, it's afforded more time for education and recreation, all great stuff, but we've also experienced changes that haven't been all that good, we see a universal loss of respect from and towards people, we see ever more broken families, children who no longer enjoy childhood, who can't cope with the pressures of life and responsibility, there's much more rage and violence in our world today, too much division, too little belief in faith based truths.
Many of us "old timers" believe that some of these negative changes have been caused over the years by mothers moving out of the home and into the work place, mothers who believe that they are in competition with men and demand to be treated like men instead of being honored as women, mothers and care givers, "back in our day" there was an order to life, everyone, men, women, and children had a role in that order, today we as parents just quit bringing up our kids, we gave up our responsibility and gave it over to strangers, teachers in the schools, life learned on the TV screen and in the streets, but not where life should be learned, in the home, around the kitchen table, on family picnics, and in church on Sunday mornings and in Sunday school.
Someone who hasn't experienced that time in our history and only knows what they remember growing up with all the modern appliances, modern automobiles, computers and cell phones have no conception of what I'm talking about or why I and others like me feel saddened by those social and cultural changes that are happening around us that contribute to most of the unhappiness, discord, division, and anger in out society today, the mixing and blurring the gender roles today is a big part of what we see as a problem, one that will only grow and get worse as people fail to see the unintended consequences of a unisex materialistic world.
