David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. 
There are some fabulous women word warriors on the internet. They are usually courageous public speakers as well. I don’t know that it’s ultimately the woman’s place to do physical combat, or even to compete with men for leadership in the war of words. But, regardless, women are in the fray, and they can be ferocious.
Xena, the classic warrior woman.
Ann Coulter has to be at the top of the list, but, she’s careful enough so that she’s still alive, after seven New York Times best sellers. Michelle Malkin brings an “ethnic” (Filipino) touch to female conservatism. There’s Laura Ingraham, Monica Crowley, and Tammy Bruce. And we add Cao and Kirkland (America’sWarChick.com) to the list of the relentless. All-American gals there.
And then there are the Jewish women. Given the stakes, I’d say these women are the bravest. They’re more likely to be physically attacked (though Ann Coulter is the one who gets the pies thrown at her on stage). The Jewish female conservative finds herself doing hand-to-hand combat with Jihadists, and the hordes of murderous Muslims. This is not fun, nor plesant, nor entertaining.
Pamela Geller is the commander of this group, and in the trenches as well, along with Debbie Schlussel (“Deadly Deb”), and the latest street fighter, The Mad Jewess (–whom we suspect uses brass knuckles in close contact). These three bloggers are such fast movers it is difficult to keep pace with their campaigns. It is a remarkable array of explosives they present–several times a day. One has to look at their blogs requently. And not to forget Ilana Mercer, with the more intellectual flavor to savor. She is a truly a world commentator (having been there).
Fighting women are certainly not a new thing in the world. Women have been warriors from ancient times, and even commanders of ships. (A must read on this kind is Jan Druett’s She Captains, Simon & Schuster, 2000.) My personal favorite, among many, is, of course, Joan of Arc. Too, there were American Indian woman who did what they had to do, like the Apache, Lozen (Victorio’s sister). There have been numerous Indian women in modern times who have fought relentlessly for various and worthy Indian causes. (The bravest kind are like the Sioux woman, Betty Ann Gross, who fight alone.)
We could even consider Annie Oakley, and Bell Starr among the women who approached the man’s world without fear or hesitation.
Interestingly, we don’t find liberal woman known for heroism, generally speaking. There have been numerous activists over the decades of modernity who have accomplished great changes in society. But, certainly, in terms of women in modern politics, there is not the same status of heroism and bravery for liberal women. It is simply not required of them.
The Palin effect: political attack hair.
Conservative women like Sarah Palin, for example, and now Jan Brewer (Governor of Arizona–who apparently modified her hair style after enjoying the support of Palin), are considered the vortext of liberal hate. We could include Michele Bachmann in that center as well. A conservative woman, married, with children, in the political war against liberalism, represents the antithesis of everything liberal. Therefore, she is the focus of supreme loathing and piquant animosity.
For the warrior woman to be conservative simply destroys the liberal take on feminism. The conservative warrior woman robs the liberal feminists of their claim to strength, aggression, and all the other masculine traits they have sought to take from men. Leftist women fervently espouse female homosexuality because of the imitative masculine behavior so often associated with Lesbianism. The stereotype of the woman warrior is a Lesbian, or at least a bi-sexual. The once intensely popular show Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001) demonstrated all that ever so gradually, artfully, and finally.
The feminist liberals have tried to claim for themselves the credit or association of every thing a woman does that is physical, or in any way associated with a man’s behavior. The feminist liberals even tried to claim softball as a lesbian specialty, and were proud that the stereotype apparently subsumed the identity of Elena Kagan, Supreme Court nominee of suspected bi-sexual Barry Soetoro.
Personally, I just see woman as people who like doing different kinds of things. Some women are extremely athletic. Others are soft as warm, wet noodles. Being physically aggressive is generally associated with masculinity, but, that’s only a cultural gender tradition. There are women who are physically aggressive who are simply not homosexuals, and not transvestites or confused about who they are. And, yes, there are homosexual women who love to act and look like a man. There are a variety of behaviors within each category.
We know that, in modern times, as early as 1977, the Israeli Defense Forces determined that it would be better not to have women in actual combat. Women just aren’t wired the same as men, and this creates unnecessary hazards on the battlefield. BadEagle.com has addressed this issue before, in “Women Warriors” (2002):
Why didn’t anyone listen to the Israeli Defense Forces back in 1977? A senior female officer said, “From the very nature of the army, you can’t have quality of the sexes in it. A woman’s just not built for fighting, physically or mentally.” Psychologist Tamar Breznitz-Svidovsky reported that nearly 90% of Israeli women surveyed did not want to see women in combat. “Women scare too easily” and “Women are too weak” were the most common reasons. These quotes, and many others, were presented by Lesley Hazleton in Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the Myths (Simon & Schuster, 1977).
Fighting Israeli women of the 1948 era earned the reputation of being unfeminine, as well as insignificant soldiers, according to Carol Clapsaddle (“Flight From Femminism,” in Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, 18 Summer 1973). They couldn’t do much about their limited soldiering, but the unfeminine image was rigorously attacked in the 1970s with the advent of “beauty” contests in Israel.
This issue seems always the same. The woman wants equal privileges as the man, including that of acting like a man. Most women, however, like being feminine, because that gives them power over men–which otherwise they could not wield. This is understood. (And, I suspect, it’s a lot easier, in most cases.)
Ah, but too much attention to the women is not good, not for the men. I think of the words of Yosi ben Yohanan of Jerusalem (pre-Mishnah father, BCE):
“Do not talk much with a woman.” They said this of a man’s own wife: how much more of his fellow’s wife! Hence the Sages have said, “He that talks much with women brings evil upon himself, and neglects the study of the Law…”
See, Jacob Neusner, The Rabbinic Traditions About the Pharisees Before 70 (Brill, 1971), Vol. 1, p.16.
Well, no wonder I suffer so! What’s a modern man to do? In the end, we can’t blame the woman. At Judgment Day, the fault lies with the man, and his abuse of the woman, regardless of her tempting powers. Check it out: Revelation 21:8 and 22:22:15. “Whoremonger” means dealer, one who deals women. I presume that means anyone who makes a nickel off the woman, from her hairstyle to her toe nails. But, who really knows?
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1 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Very good post. Why is it when I think of the word, “whoremonger” the image of Bill Clinton comes to mind? Where were the feminists after he was caught cavorting with Monica Lewinsky? They defended his dabauchery with their deafening silence!
Also, women like Pamela Geller and fellow Jew Debbie Schlussel have two issues at stake in their fight to expose the evil that is Islam. First, of course, is that as Jews they are already marked for death by these idiot Islamists. Second, they are Americans with a great love for their country. I watched Pamela yesterday on Atlas Shrugs addressing the Tennessee Tea Party. That girl is awesome! She reminds me of a modern day Queen Esther, rising up to save her people, both the Jews and the Americans. Furthermore, I am hoping that our gal from the North Sarah Palin wins in 2012. The liberals say she isn’t qualified to lead our nation yet Obama is? Makes me think most of the establishment is on drugs.
2 Illana // Jun 6, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Yes, pretty much good article : I was expecting special examples from the representation of Women in Islam in contradictions with the terrorist women in the Hamas who are supposed to sacrifice their lives like men in their “Djiad”…
3 David Yeagley // Jun 6, 2010 at 6:05 pm
PamK. Is Palin running in 2012? I hadn’t heard.
Illana: I did think of people like Wafa Sultan, and Nonie Darwish! I just got pressed for time and accidentally forgot to include them. They are indeed very, very brave women.
Have you hear of Rosine Ghawji? A French national who immigrated to the US, married a Pakistani MD, who turned out to be a terrorist. She fought like a tiger to keep her children. She risked everything she was, and had, for American freedom–in the face of great disrespect by a female judge in Tennessee. Rosine is a patriot, in the most romantic, 19th century sense!
4 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I am not sure she has made any official statement about running yet, but I hope she will! Although I once vowed never to work for any political campaign again, (especially after losing out on a job working in my county library because I refused to change my political affliation) I would seriously consider working to help Mrs. Palin become our next president. I recently read, “Going Rogue’ and I think she would be a great president. Like Ronald Reagan, she believes in America and the American people.
5 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 6:59 pm
“especially after losing out on a job working in my county library because I refused to change my political affliation”
Your politics cost you your job as a librarian? Now that’s really un-American! What is wrong with this country?! Shocking!
6 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 7:06 pm
It is especially offensive that a librarian lose her job, because the library is supposed to be a bastion of freedom of speech and opinion.
Also, if I were starting out in life, I would probably gravitate towards this line of work. Books are a near passion with me — I’m one of the world’s greatest bibliophiles!
7 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 7:16 pm
One tacit reason why a nation might not want women on the battlefield is that, if there’s a scarcity of women of child bearing age, the nation will surely suffer. Given a scarcity of men — well, we know that in ancient cultures a man could have several wives, if needed to rebuild the population base.
8 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 7:18 pm
There used to be a courageous Black woman conservative, but (to my disappointment, given the Obama presidency) she’s not updating her website:
http://www.issues-views.com/
9 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 7:22 pm
A great ancient Roman quote. It fits in perfectly with the White Man’s plight today:
Roman Wisdom:
“Ever since we ventured beyond our native soil, crossed the water, set foot on many islands and continents, and filled the whole sea and the whole earth with our name and power, we have experienced nothing but ill fortune.”
– Maecenas, adviser to Augustus Caesar
10 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I could only wish to be a librarian! Or an archivist working in the Smithsonian, but it was only a library aide’s job. Still, it really stinks that I was told I should change my political affliation (I am an Independent) to Democrat in order to be a shoo-in for the job. I was told “you can always change your political affliation back once your in”. I told them joining the Democrats to secure a job with the county was like selling my soul to the Devil. I absolutely refused to compromise my principles so I lost out. But at least I can sleep at night.
11 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:10 pm
The KJV is clearer in Revelation 21:8. Many other translations only say “sexually immoral,” which, in my opinion, is rather vague.
12 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:19 pm
That your political affiliation is even discussed in a job application for library work ought to be actionable in a court of law. Why should one be required to have any affiliation at all?
As to myself, although I have “voted conservative,” I’ve never joined any political party or had any affiliation. Indeed, the only possibility of this would be if I were to join a third party, in protest against the refusal of the Republicans to take any stand for White ethnic interests. Every other conceivable group has political representation!
However, I do believe that this plight of the White Race is specifically mentioned in Holy Scripture, in Daniel, Chapter 2:43:
“43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
13 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:23 pm
“…they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men…” (verse 43)
‘Seed’ in Scripture most definitely means “race” in modern English. The human races shall mix, the strong and the weak, together. But this multiracialism and multiculturalism will not hold together; this new system, which we are now living in, will eventually fall apart. It is unnatural and contrary to the Divine ordering of the nations. The Most High, you see, is a nationalist!
14 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:26 pm
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” — Proverbs 14:12
Modern “Liberalism” and its child, the multicultural society, is that “way.” Of course, the verse has other applications as well.
15 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:30 pm
“But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations; and as for the murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts, and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth through word or deed) all of these shall have their part in the lake of fire. This is the second death.” Revelation 21:8 Amplified Bible
Corresponding verse from the OT: “For Topheth ( a place of burning and abomination) has already been laid out and long ago prepared; yes, for the (Assyrian) king and (the god) Molech, it has been made ready, its pyre made deep and large with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone.” Isaiah 30:33 Amplified Bible
16 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:36 pm
My political affliation did not come up but I received a phone call from a “well-meaning friend” who informed me that while “it really did not matter” but I should change my political affliation. I said to this person if “it did not really matter” why are you calling me up on the phone? This person did this several times, telling me how i was going to miss out on all the perks of being a county employee. I told this person the county could take their job and shove it cause I would never become a Democrat!
17 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I really do believe that we are now living in the time mentioned in Daniel 2:43. God is very patient, and I believe that this situation could easily last another 50 years before He intervenes.
Again, “seed” in the Bible means “race” and “lineage.” For those who open their eyes, it becomes very clear that God is opposed to unlimited miscegenation. The Ancient Philistines, Israel’s arch-enemy, were wiped out by this very means.
God may not “worry” about tiny numbers of mixed marriages — I cannot say — but He clearly opposes a situation where intermarriage tips the balance towards the actual marriage of two distinct nations. When enough members of two distinct races marry, the races themselves can be said to have married. God is clearly against this.
18 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I’ll change and lighten the subject for a second.
In my reading I came across this sentence:
“Ask around for ideas on how to stop hiccups and you’ll get an olla podrida of bizarre remedies.”
I have the answer!! The cure for hiccups that I’ve never known to fail is so simple: a half-teaspoon of sugar to dissolve on the tongue! Stops them every time.
19 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 9:22 pm
“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers (do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent to your faith. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? or, how can light have fellowship with darkness?” II Cor 6:14
I personally have always believed that in this passage God is saying to believers not to intermarry with non-believers. A perfect example of this would be a woman raised as a Christian who marries a Muslim man, thus she will “come under the yoke’ of Islam through her marriage. I really do not believe that God dislikes interracial marriages as long as they understand that God views marriage as a covenant relationship between one man and one woman and Himself.
20 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I really do not believe that God dislikes interracial marriages as long as they understand that God views marriage as a covenant relationship between one man and one woman and Himself.
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This is indeed the current Christian viewpoint. But it was not always so. In past decades, many Christian pastors supported segregation and anti-miscegenation laws here in America.
In any event, Bible prophecy clearly predicts a huge increase in intermarriage just before God returns to judge the world. I find this juxtaposition most interesting.
21 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:10 pm
For the record, I do not enjoy holding an extremely unpopular belief. Life would be very much more pleasant for me if someone could convince me that MLK Jr. was right and that integration and intermarriage were “the will of God.”
If God really did want Whites and Negroes to integrate and intermarry, and this made Him happy, then I’d just relax and smile on the current racial scene. However, I’m skeptical on this. I just happen to believe that God made the races for a purpose. Unless He reveals to me that there is no particular purpose for racial differences, I feel my best bet is that they are somewhat sacred in nature, and thus not to be trampled on recklessly.
22 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:18 pm
God never enters into a permanent relationship apart from covenant. This is not a current viewpoint of Christians but an idea going all the way back to Genesis and the union of Adam and Eve. God Himself was directly and personally involved in their story. He chose that Adam should not be alone, but have a mate, and He alone presented Eve to Adam. Furthermore, God Himself established the terms of the covenant relationship in which He brought them together. All through the Old Testament marriage was regarded as a covenant relationship.
“A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart,” -King Solomon
This “cord of three strands” was Solomon’s illustration of marriage as it was conceived at creation, a binding agreement between a man, a woman, and God. Furthermore, it accurately portrays the pattern of marriage for believers, united through their faith in Christ. In a covenant relationship, what Solomon said of a cord is still true in this present day. “It is not quickly torn apart.”
23 David Yeagley // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Pamela, your story about the librarian job is not incredible. No social circumstance is immune to liberalism and fraud. Sometimes, the insignificant find significance in politicizing themselves–even if it is in the most remote, isolated, insignificant place.
I don’t know where your situation was, but, I know that this is a staged country we live in. A media fest, always. Narcissistic, looking in the mirror of media, constantly. Everyone is tempted into the act, no matter how small, how unimportant.
The right words, the right issue, the right application of “principle,” and, behold, we’re all in the act.
24 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:32 pm
What I’m saying is this: the popular view among Christians today is that God recognizes the marriage covenant in cases of, for example, White-Black mixed marriages — so long as both man and woman are Christian.
Now it does not require much study to know that America was founded by White Christians — and all thirteen original colonies had enacted anti-miscegenation laws. These Christians believed differently from what their descendants believe when it comes to race-relations. That was my point.
Look at Ezra, chapter 9:
“For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons; so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.”
The “holy seed” can also be translated “holy race.” One sees here that RACE — not faith alone — is an essential matter. Never did God say to the Israelites, “Convert the heathen to the Faith, then freely marry with them.”
The modern Christian teaching is that this has only to do with the detestable practices of the heathen and has nothing to do with race. I do not agree.
25 David Yeagley // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:34 pm
How did this warrior women blog get into interracial marriage? That’s an entirely different subject.
26 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:44 pm
I have a wonderful niece who is in the military. I respect her courage and patriotism, but with her having three children and now being a single mother, I must confess that it bothers me that the government will very likely send her into a war zone.
27 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Should the Obama administration ever find it expedient to revive the draft, I am sure that the nation’s young women will be included.
Now, I think it’s a great idea for girls to learn self-defense and martial arts. However, sending young women into battle is not something I find particularly morally sound. Nor should children be sent into battle, as Hitler did near the end of WW2.
28 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:55 pm
“No social circumstance is immune to liberalism and fraud”. That’s right. It’s like an infectious disease straight from the pits of Hell.
29 Pamela K. // Jun 6, 2010 at 11:03 pm
I agree with you that girls can benefit from learning self-defense by training in the Martial Arts. My mother is a sixth dan black belt master of Tang Soo Doo. Not only can she kick some butt, but karate has built her confidence and self-respect.
30 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Homosexuality is mentioned in the article.
When “Marlowe” was produced, the line where James Garner suggests that Bruce Lee might be “gay” was considered funny, but no longer.
Similarly, Elvis Presley once did a jest in song when on stage he addressed his familiar “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” song to a male member of his entourage, to give the women in the audience a laugh. Yet this probably would not work in 2010.
How did the liberals effect this change — an American culture where this would now be highly offensive.
How liberals (or anyone else, for that matter) can influence the thinking of the masses — this is a question worthy of investigation. Is it really a simple matter, or does it involve cleverness and hard work over a long period of time?
31 Thrasymachus // Jun 6, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Here’s the missing URL to “Marlowe” that I inadvertently left out of the above post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s83rgwLld68
32 whitetrash // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:21 am
Sarah’s a good gal, but she’s a tool for the treasonous Skull and Bones set and she doesn’t even know it.
33 colleague graduate // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:37 am
Women do not have as much testerone- threetrone, as men, and don’t have the muscle power men have because of this, making them uncompetitive with male soldiers in combat. Unless thew women were Amazon warriors, they should be kept behind the lines. Some women are capable of running marathons, demonstrating athleticism, but so are men capable of this, and it would be unwise to have a female marathoner compete with a male marathoner if they were both soldiers on a battlefield. In a paragraph above, David said that most women like being feminine, because that gives them power over men. I don’t agree about the cause-effect relationship David’s talking about here. A woman was the original sinner. Why should she have power over a man? She’s just there if the man wants her, and if he doesn’t, it’s probably because she is too sinful, much more than the man. He might see things in her that just don’t turn him on. That’s why couples sometimes get divorced. I never married. I always saw things about females I did not approve of. They would date other guys, some of whom I would not approve of sharing with prior to tying the knot. They would have likes and dislikes contrary to mine. But I don’t see them as being powerful and feminine at the same time. A woman is the weaker sex, not the more powerful sex. I don’t even believe women should be pilots in the military, unless they navigate drones over enemy territory in Afghanistan, and wherever else might be needed in the future, from the US headquarters for this kind of navigation.
34 colleague graduate // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:39 am
testosterone- God, what a long word, so long that I couldn’t type all of it; how about threetrone for short, ok?
35 bear // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:45 am
Thrasymachus,
Instant relief from hiccups for infants and children, (I have never tried it on adults) is also a herbal remedy known as “Gripe water” it stops them instantly as soon as it is swallowed, it is great for colic as well when no other medication seems to be working, and a few issues affecting the stomach.
36 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 8:13 am
Women are not the weaker sex. Radical feminism has wreaked havoc on the minds of women and apparently some men too about the traditional and honorable role of being a wife and a mother in our society. They claim that being married and having babies is just another way for men to exert control over them, “Keep’em barefoot and pregnant.” is the feminist mantra. This is total misconception of what God intended in regards to a woman’s role in marriage and family life.
“A capable, intelligent and virtuous woman, who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above the rubies or pearls.
Strength and dignity are her clothing and her position is strong and secure; she rejoices over the future (which includes giving birth to new life) and she and her family are in readiness for it!
Her children rise up and call her blessed and her husband boasts and praises her saying, “Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well, with strength of character that is steadfast in goodness, but you excel them all.”
Proverbs 31:10, 25, 28, 29
37 zephyr // Jun 7, 2010 at 8:38 am
David: “I don’t know that it’s ultimately the woman’s place . . . to compete with men for leadership in the war of words.”
Please explain what you mean by that.
38 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 10:41 am
The scientists (psychologists) aver that women think differently from men. The wiring is different, even in the brain. (I’m quite thankful for this, of course.)
Her view of things is EQUAL to that of the man’s, in that it is like the other half of the whole picture. You simply have to have the woman’s input.
On what? What subject, what dimension, and what area?
Well, that is the debate, perhaps. Sometimes I think women should handle all administrative jobs, of all sorts, even the military. Something about feeding a nest full of competing little bird mouths–a creative management, an ability to make a situation work–I should think that is a woman’s (especially a mother’s) special talent. The ability to drop one schedule, modify another, all on a moment’s notice–you know, all the chaos that comes with children.
But, for women who aren’t mothers, I’d say the instincts (talents) are all still there.
Leadership of the country? Political leadership? Even commentary on political leadership? I don’t know. I know women are not as likely to call for war as men are. (Although, Margie Thatcher didn’t hesitate one minute when British citizens were invaded thousands of miles away on the Faulkland Islands.)
The man is supposed to be the head of the family, the congregation, the country, etc. That’s my derivation from history, particularly Biblical history. What that does to “equality,” I don’t know. I see it as disparitous task assignment. Division of labor. The man does this, the woman does that. Traceable perhaps to the body itself.
39 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 10:41 am
I believe I’m being abused here. I’m being picked on. Unfairly treated…
40 zephyr // Jun 7, 2010 at 10:56 am
Clearly you don’t think women should “lead” anything–other than children. Not demeaning that role, but it’s not the *only* role women do well.
I’m no feminist in the liberal sense of the word, but to say women are not particularly qualified to even offer “commentary on political leadership” is absurd. In what way do you think men are superior in this regard?
Apart from issues of physical strength and hormones, and the fact that women tend to be less self-centered than men, to suggest that women are somehow not quite as capable or less talented in other areas is misogynistic, to say the least. Male superiority complex?
And men wonder why women get irritated!
41 Illana // Jun 7, 2010 at 11:12 am
Like Zephir I think Women are very qualified to be political leadership : they have a good sense of communication.
See all the societies that are too patriarcal : they are dictature and less democratic than the ones where Women are present.
42 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Women are qualified to be leaders. Sarah Palin was the Governor of Alaska. Yet, she is also a wife, a mother of five children and as such she is the center of her home. Women have a choice not to have children and to pursue a career, follow their heart, etc. But you only see this freedom in the West. the Judeo-Christian ethic, “Whom The Son Sets Free Is Free Indeed” is the basis for our freedom to aspire to our goals in life. On the other hand, it is plain to see that women in eastern cultures, particularly in the Muslim countries, are segregated and discriminated against, conditioned from early childhood to be subservient to their men.
43 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Obviously, no one is reading what I wrote, so, I won’t write anymore on this subject. Nor is it apparently useful to expect not to be completely misquoted.
Carry on! (And try to remember a sense of humor, if possible.)
44 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I don’t know that it’s ultimately the woman’s place to do physical combat, or even to compete with men for leadership in the war of words. But, regardless, women are in the fray, and they can be ferocious.
45 Illana // Jun 7, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I admit that I don’t understand 100% of people wrote .. but I just think people answer to the last message in which they are interested in .
Your topic was quite original..
46 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Illana, I don’t know the answer to the issue of the woman’s role in society, in the world. I don’t know. I said that, first, then the rest of the article follows.
My own mother was very aggressive. After she stayed home and raised her children, then she renewed her RN license, became a geriatrics specialist, and finally became the first RN woman in the state of Oklahoma to own a home health service. For all her personal ambitions, however, she did not like confrontation.
47 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 3:30 pm
David, your mother was a hero in her own way. I always say motherhood is like the military, the toughest job you will ever love! But motherhood can be heart-breaking too. I know from my own personal experience how agonizing it is to see a child you love and nutured to adulthood succumb to the devastating allure of drugs and alcohol and how even though as their mother you had no influence in the lifestyle choices your child has made, you can become overwhelmed by horrible guilt and begin to second guess yourself. Why wasn’t I a better parent? Was I too strict? Was I too lenient? I always believe the greatest gifts our mother can give us are our roots and our wings. The rest is up to us.
48 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Any sincere parent–male or female, is twice the man I’ll ever be. That’s all I can say about that. And probably has twice the understanding and appreciation of God that I will ever have.
49 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 4:27 pm
“Any sincere parent–male or female, is twice the man I’ll ever be. That’s all I can say about that. And probably has twice the understanding and appreciation of God that I will ever have.”
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Do not feel bad. You are not alone in this. I have never had a desire for parental responsibility. Music has always been the true love of my life. I’ve always felt that this world is populated more than enough and doesn’t need my trifling contribution.
50 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Yikes. I didn’t mean to imply I didn’t want to be a parent. Is that true??!! I wonder.
I have had serious health problems since I was a child. I don’t know if I ever said this, but I wasn’t expected to live to be 16. Long story short, I never expected to be around. How can one marry, become a parent, then die, leaving the wife a widow and the children fatherless?
51 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 5:41 pm
“Faith is to Believe what we do not see; and the Reward of Faith is to See what we Believe.”-Saint Augustine
52 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I don’t like the odds!
Funny. I knew a girl in college who, at the time, was the only other person I knew who had had cancer like me. (In fact, her brother had the same cancer, too.) Kept in touch with her through the years. The woman married, and had four kids! I couldn’t believe it. “How could you do that?!” I remember asking her.
It was her faith, she said. Well, I’ve often wondered whether or not women have a more natural disposition of faith, and of religious sentiment in general. There could be a number of reasons for that. They certainly play extremely prominent roles in the Bible.
Not one was mentioned by named in the Hebrews Hall of Faith (ch.11), but “women received their dead.” That’s about love, right there. I could name a number of heroic women in the Bible, right off the bat. And not just in their normal circles.
53 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Glenn Gould’s mother, when she was a teen-age girl and before she met her husband, prayed to God that she would have a son, that his name would be Glenn, and that he would be a great concert pianist.
God answered her prayer.
I could only want to be a father under like conditions — knowing that God would grant me the son who would not rebel against me and be a disappointment to me.
You know, the story of King David lamenting the fate of his son, Absolom (“O! Absolom, my son! my son!”) — this kind of story haunts me.
54 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 6:46 pm
I have always seen myself in the role of Mr. Myagi (“The Karate Kid”), helping the fatherless youth who comes to him for wisdom. But this is merely fiction, not common reality?
In other words, I’d rather be a mentor than a father.
I’ve never had a need to be a parent. I don’t think that God calls every man to this responsibility.
55 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 6:58 pm
The following prayer was written by General Douglas MacArthur -
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee….Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.
Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.”
56 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Gould’s mother and this one in Scripture suggest that women may very well have more faith in regard to their children:
“While still childless, Hannah made this vow to God: “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maidservant and remember me, and not forget your maidservant, but will give your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life….” (I Samuel 1:11). It was a vow she kept, and her son Samuel became one of the greatest spiritual leaders Israel ever knew.”
57 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:10 pm
This attitude on my part developed after adulthood, I might add.
When I was a teen-ager in high school, studying French, I dreamed of mastering the language (which I did) so that I could move to France and raise a French family.
But this was not a strong dream that would stand the tests of time.
58 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I forgot to put in the above, “marry a French girl,” and in this way have a French family.
Yes, even back then, I thought that Europe was a better place than the US, because there was constant racial conflict here. But I soon discovered that it was worse across the ocean, so I abandoned the idea of moving there.
59 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:18 pm
My family is liberal Democratic. They do not take pride in the family itself. The greater family has always feuded, etc., so I did not think this a good situation for a child of mine. I always longed for a strong family that put filial piety and family bonds at the top of the list. I was not born into such a family.
You see, I am a very “tribal-minded” fellow. I want and need the support of the clan. This I can never have in this life. Ergo, having a family would be, in my case, an adventure in fighting the world on my own — something that takes more strength than I have so far found.
My family does not have that strong sense of destiny that Joseph’s family in the book of Genesis had — the family of the Biblical patriarchs. Yet this is what I require.
60 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:19 pm
One of the most inspiring stories I ever read was a book called “Walking Through The Fire” by Laurel Lee. It is the story of Laurel, a married woman in her mid-twenties who was pregnant with her third child when she began experiencing unusual health problems-night sweats, weight loss, fatigue-so she went into the hospital for tests and found out she was suffering from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Five months pregnant at the time, the doctors told Laurel she should abort her child. She refused, and began a combination of chemo and radiation therapy. She also leaned heavily on her faith in God, especially when her husband, faced with the prospect of raising three children alone, ran off with the babysitter. The doctors had to induce her labor early and she gave birth to a premature but healthy baby girl. Her story was written in the form of a journal and was later published into a sucsessful book and made into a movie. Laurel’s courage and her unshakable faith in God will always be an inspiration to me. People might fail us, but God never does.
61 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:26 pm
“Not one was mentioned by named in the Hebrews Hall of Faith (ch.11), but “women received their dead.” ”
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My mother (and father) was a great hero in this respect.
My older brother had lupus and suffered a short and painful life. My mother had to endure great pain and hardships in this.
Then my father developed a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and again my wonderful mother had to fight this battle.
Mom is the real hero in my life!
My parents suffered tremendously in raising a family. I wanted an easier life. I wanted to give the world a great musical gift — or make at least a great intellectual or scientific or cultural contribution to history. This has been my dream.
62 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:28 pm
“Laurel’s courage and her unshakable faith in God will always be an inspiration to me. People might fail us, but God never does.”
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Great story. What on earth was wrong with her husband — well, he had no faith, that all. Again, your story confirms my suspicion that mothers are the great warriors of faith in these vital matters. To be a great mother! Ah! The radical feminists have it all wrong! To be a great mother is the highest calling on Earth!
63 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:32 pm
The answer to Gould’s mother’s youthful prayer:
(God does answer prayer!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_7AZMsf0Tc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftk_cnbwKQ
64 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Agreed. Tell me how Moses’ mother taught him what he needed to know as a toddler. Or better, how did Hannah teach little Samuel? Three years. That’s all she had.
Sometimes, there’s an endowment from Heaven. Not every mother’s child receives it. But, it would seem that every mother has at least the opportunity to ask for it.
65 David Yeagley // Jun 7, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Beethoven’s mother died when he was 15. He had to assume responsibility for the family. His father was an abusive alcoholic. Beethoven had just gone to Vienna to begin studies, but he had to return home to his mother. Think of that.
66 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 8:52 pm
No story better resonates the mother-child relationship than the story of “The Passion”. I remember sitting in the movie theatre weeping through the entire movie, especially the part where Mary remembers Jesus falling down as a little boy and rushes to comfort him. Then she has to stand by, helpless, watching her boy carry his cross to his death on Calvary. As a mother of two sons, I could not help but feel the sheer agony she must have felt watching her beloved Son die so horribly that day.
67 Pamela K. // Jun 7, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Furthermore, as a mother of an autistic son, the following article I just received makes me sick! As far as I am concerned, this country is no better than Nazi Germany!
Study: Rise in Autism and introduction of Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Correlate
By James Tillman
PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Dr. Theresa Deisher, founder of the pro-life Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, presented a study revealing the link between autism and aborted fetal DNA in vaccinations at the International Meeting for Autism Research in May.
“The temporal connection between the introduction of aborted fetal DNA and autism rises is found over decades and across continents,” Dr. Deisher told LifeSiteNews. “This temporal connection is more compelling than any mercury connection,” which, she said, had no temporal connection to rising rates of autism.
As the abstract of the study indicates, autism rates in the US and the UK began to increase around the same time that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine switched from using animal cells to using human cells that had been derived from aborted fetuses.
The use of such cells means that the vaccine might contain residual human DNA fragments. Dr. Deisher told LSN that “short fragments of human DNA residuals in vaccines present two well-documented potential physiological dangers” and “the possibility for auto-immune reactions.” While the immune system recognizes the DNA as foreign, its similarity to an individual’s own DNA can cause the immune system to attack parts of the individual’s own body.
Another danger springs from the length of the DNA fragments. Residual DNA fragments consisting of less than 250 base pairs (bp) have been shown to have a higher probability of entering the nucleus of human cells. Once inside the nucleus, short DNA fragments can integrate with the genome of the cell. The probability of integration is 1 billion times greater with DNA from the same species than with DNA from another species, according to the abstract.
The study explained that, as the average human DNA fragment length in the rubella vaccine is 220bp, it would be especially likely to enter the nucleus of a cell. Moreover, 25 of the “recombination hotspots” where the DNA fragment could likely combine are located in some of the autism-associated genes (AAG). Thus, such recombination could be one of the causes of autism.
According to SCPI, before children received many vaccinations and before vaccines contained aborted fetal DNA, only about 1 of 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism, whereas now 1 of 150 is diagnosed.
Sound Choice is working to provide further evidence of a causal association between residual human DNA and autism. “In order to definitively prove the connection, one would want to see these vaccines all replaced and autism rates go down immediately,” Dr. Deisher told LSN.
Sound Choice also plans to look at historical databases for more evidence of correlation, to evaluate a mouse model of autism using mouse DNA fragments, and to attempt to determine the exact location where human DNA fragments enter the human genome.
The pro-life organization Children of God for Life praised Sound Choice and its companion organization Ave Maria Biotechnology for their crucial research.
“Until the advent of AVM Biotechnology and their non-profit arm SCPI we had little hope that anyone would invest the time and money to do this study”, stated Children of God for Life founder Debi Vinnedge.
“Dr. Deisher’s work is a blessing to hundreds of thousands of families, if not millions worldwide,” Vinnedge continued. “She is a direct answer to our prayers for a biotech company focused solely on moral research and ethically produced vaccines and therapeutics.”
Related links:
Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute
Ave Maria Biotechnology
Children of God for Life
See related stories on LifeSiteNews.com:
Is Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Linked to Autism?
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09072106.html
68 Thrasymachus // Jun 7, 2010 at 9:17 pm
“As far as I am concerned, this country is no better than Nazi Germany!”
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It isn’t any better. Both are socialist and both are murderous, even against their own citizens.
69 colleague graduate // Jun 8, 2010 at 8:47 am
I’m glad to finally read about the real lives of others. Life is so brutal at times. Everybody mentioned about the hardships their relatives endured or died from. David said he was not expected to make it past 16 years old because of his cancer, but he did. There must be some correlation with that and his extrordinary intelligence. In a psychology course I took in colleague, I learned that intelligence is only capable of being measured up until the age of 16. I believe it was the Stanford-Binet IQ test that could not be administered after a person reaches 16. But David’s probably could, as evidenced by the advanced degrees he earned. And for Thras, this person, if fluent in French, should perhaps move to Canada, as opposed to France. I like France, though, because of all the art museums there. Canada is nice and cool temp-wise, though, allowing residents to be active outside without sweating. France might be similar, because I’ve heard they only take one shower a week there. Pamela K. said she didn’t consider women as the weaker sex. I’ve never heard that. I tried to describe why they are the weaker sex. Mentally they could and do compete with men. Just watch a Jeapordy show. Sometimes they win. I think David’s right about women being less likely to call for going to war. So many of them wanted Obama to get us out of Iraq, and they voted for him. Today my state of SC has the gubenatorial primary. Since I live across the street from the Atlantic, I don’t want a governor who wants to test the waters by test drilling. If too cold to their toes, they don’t go for a swim. They have to find out if too cold first. The problem with offshore drilling is they don’t know about the outcome either. They believe the cost/benefit ratio is such that the benefit outweighs the cost. That’s not what http://oceana.org says when they say drilling will ony alleviate 2 to 6% of our need for foreign oil. The cost of oil spills is not worth the benefit. All the Republican candidates want drilling. McCain last night on Greta Van Susteren said he supports one of them, Henry McMaster. McCain also lives inland in Phoenix, immune to an oil spill. There are 2 Democratic candidates who don’t want drilling. I might need to go to the voting place today and vote for one of them in order to protect where I live. I have no desire to move inland unless I knew of some fantastic house with a finished basement that had a huge yard or acreage I could grow food and flowers on, somewhere where it’s cool, maybe in the mountains. Places for sale in Tennessee are like this. There’s not a great demand to live there, so these places are affordable. If anybody would like to look at a site I’ve been looking at lately that’s a realtor’s page who specializes in the mountains of NC, it is http://dexhubbard.comand his Homes to click on. He has one on a Cherokee Indian Reservation by Lake Santeelah, which must be a Cherokee name. It would be so pleasant and cool temp-wise living in these mountains. This area is at the soutern end of the Great Smokies National Park, directly above the Georgia border and Brasstown Bald, with the closest major city being Knoxville. Look, if I’m unable to move into one of these places at this time in my life, maybe some of my intellectual colleagues here in the commenting area on Bad Eagle are able to.
70 Chana // Jun 10, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Dear Mr. Yeagley, Thank you so much for the compliments you gave to all conservative women with this blog post, esp. the Jewish conservative women like myself. And yes, you are right that we are hated more than others! I am forced to use a fictitious name online due to severe harassment from leftwing jews and others who simply cannot stand the fact that a JEWISH woman is as far to the right as I am. They have threatened me and even my husband and children; hence, the fictitious blog name. I wish I could be more open, but for safety reasons, I cannot.
Black conservatives and Jewish conservatives, esp. the most outspoken, have the most to fear and the most to lose. This is why we are targeted as much as we are (and few people realize it!)
You mentioned Joan of Arc; although I’m Jewish she has been my heroine since childhood. I never understood why; perhaps it was for a time such as this.
I tried to join the US Navy when I was a teenager; they rejected me for health reasons, due to my hearing impairment. I tried again and again to be accepted, even going so far as petitioning the Department of Defense. To no avail. I have always felt like a failure because I could not serve my country.
And then, a few weeks ago, while returning from a Tea Party rally, a US Army soldier in full uniform saw me in the bus terminal, came over, and asked me, “Are you a Tea Party warrior?” I was taken aback, and said “Yes”. He then shook my hand and said, “Thank you for your service to our wonderful country!”
You see, God used that to teach me something: not all soldiers wear uniforms, and not all fight with guns.
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