An example from Britain of how offensive speech SHOULD be stopped
By critical speech in reply
"An advertising campaign that featured the message “Career women make bad mothers” has been pulled from about 4,000 billboards around the country after a vehement response by irate mothers. The Outdoor Advertising Association (OAA) hoped that its £1.25 million campaign, which also included a slogan designed to provoke England football fans that read “1966 — It won’t happen this year”, would show the power of billboards to inspire debate at a dedicated website, but they underestimated the potency of maternal wrath.
Mothers did indeed go online in droves, but not to Britainthinks, the internet forum set up by the advertisers. Instead, they flocked to Mumsnet, the website that embarrassed Gordon Brown in October when he declined to reveal his favourite biscuit. In a message thread that ran to almost 1,000 posts, they published details of the creative agency responsible for the advert, its other clients and anyone who could be used to exert pressure to have the posters withdrawn.
Four days later, shell-shocked by the torrent of abuse directed at them, the OAA apologised and promised to remove or cover up the posters as soon as possible. Beta, the agency that created the advert, also caved in to pressure yesterday. Garry Lace, Beta’s co-founder, had demanded that Mumsnet compensate him and his company for damage to their reputations, but capitulated yesterday with an apology.
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12 comments:
Some may find the message offensive, but i know from personal experience that it's true. And so do millions of women. Building or maintaining a career does not leave time for a mother to properly raise her children. If the truth offends some people, then they have bigger problems than this topic.
Why is it always about the mothers? Why not the fathers? My daddy came home from work at 8 or 9 but we always had dinner together and if not spend time as a family.
It's a horrible billboard I think. Having worked in advertising I know the last thing you want to do is make you target audience hate you.
Imagine a billboard that said "Fat people are lazy workers." You think you're going to convince them to lose weight that way?
There's nothing wrong with being a career mother or father as long as you find time to spend with your children and find out what's really going on in their lives, check their room to see if they have any drugs or weapons, read their diary, etc.
After all, Sarah Palin is an excelent mother who also had time to be governor of Alaska. What happened to Bristol in no way demeans her, kids will make mistakes and I don't think chastity belts are legal anyway.
Father working, Mother taking care of home and child makes for far better results (of course there are exceptions). Governments would rather you both work so they can raise your child.
"Father working, Mother taking care of home and child makes for far better results (of course there are exceptions). "
---Another reason why mothers should work is because of the sad reality of divorce. With 50% of marriages failing, a woman needs to be able to support herself since alymony doesn't last forever.
There's also the chance that the father might lose his job, in some marriages the woman makes more than the man and sometimes it's the man who becomes the househusband and raises the kids.
Ultimately it's up to the couple and not the government or some nosy group to decide how children are raised. But if I was married and had kids, I would hope for the best and plan for the worst
Tens-of-millions of women across America were conned and used by the phony feminist movement just so they could further their Leftist agenda. A mothers place is at home raising her children. If she can't/won't do that, she shouldn't have any kids. And if feminists don't like that, then fcuk 'em!
in the '50s government & industry looked at a vast work force that had been idled twice by the end of a foreign conflict . If it could be mobilised during peace time G&I would realize several benefits; with more competition for jobs labor costs where driven down , and with more earners more could be taxed .
the law of unforeseen circumstances holds true . witness several of societies ills .
radical groups have also been enabled and believe they are entitled to point fingers , thus furthering their destructive causes . this further helps to snowball the collapse of our civilization .
remember any benefit you receive has its consequences , you can complain but it won't do you any good .
Iah Gebor
Well said Iah.
Bobby said;
"Another reason why mothers should work is because of the sad reality of divorce. With 50% of marriages failing, a woman needs to be able to support herself since alymony doesn't last forever."
Um, Bobby, what about the sad reality of children growing up while both parents are away working? Apparently, you're not aware of the effect this has on growing children. It's not good!
"m, Bobby, what about the sad reality of children growing up while both parents are away working? Apparently, you're not aware of the effect this has on growing children. It's not good!"
---Good parents always find time for their kids even if they both work. A mother doesn't have to have the lifestyle of a maid if she chooses not to. There's more to life than cooking, cleaning, and being a kid's chauffer. Besides, by the time your kids get home it's not like they want to spend time with you, they'll probably want to play or do their homework, parenting is a lot more than being there when the kids come back from school.
Saying that, my sister works from home which was her choice, she wanted to spend time with her kids and make a living. I'm proud that my sister makes a lot of money with her homebased business, but other women don't have that luxury.
Either way, women today have more choices than being breeding machines and housekeepers. They can serve in the military, they can serve in government. If traditional motherhood is so important why is Sarah Palin such a hero in the conservative movement?
If Sarah Palin was able to find time to run for mayor, governor and vice-president while taking care of a large family, any woman can. The trick is getting the husbands and the kids to clean as well, and help each other out.
50 pct divorce rate is actually not true. Many people are married more than once (they keep failing at it) however 1st time marriage rate is still at over 70pct. Plus in a divorce if the woman is not working they get child support/alimony.
using your 'logic' people wanting to become lawyers should plan two careers because 50pct fail the lawyers exam.
50 pct divorce rate is actually not true. Many people are married more than once (they keep failing at it) however 1st time marriage rate is still at over 70pct. Plus in a divorce if the woman is not working they get child support/alimony.
using your 'logic' people wanting to become lawyers should plan two careers because 50pct fail the lawyers exam.
Sorry, the comment got posted without me commenting, let's try again:
"50 pct divorce rate is actually not true. Many people are married more than once (they keep failing at it) however 1st time marriage rate is still at over 70pct."
---True enough, it makes me question the "sanctity" of marriage. However, with such a high divorce rate I don't think a woman can afford to depend on a man for her livelyhood. In the arab world for example large dowries are expected when you get married, and if then you divorce your wife, she goes back to her family.
Seriously, a woman who depends on a man is as useless as a fish with a bycicle. How would you feel if you had to depend on your wife for how much money you get?
"Plus in a divorce if the woman is not working they get child support/alimony."
---That may work if your K-Fed and your ex-wife is Britney Spears, but what if your husband is poor and doesn't make enough money? what kind of alimony are you going to get then? And how long alimony lasts btw?
"using your 'logic' people wanting to become lawyers should plan two careers because 50pct fail the lawyers exam."
---That's different because you can take the exam again and maybe you'll pass, if not you can become a paralegal or do other law type of professions without ever setting a foot in court.
With marriage is different, if all you do is raise kids you're not learning any valuable skills in case you ever need a job other than perhaps running a daycare center and being a maid.
While I don't agree with the more radical notions of feminism, I do believe that a woman should be strong, independent, and able to take care of herself. I hate "weak" women like in the horror movies, the ones that cry like babies and need the man to save them from the monster.
I knew a woman who gave up her lucrative career as a dentist because her husband feared she might get AIDS. That's a waste of a good education, not to mention the income she was bringing in.
My favorite women are the ones in the army, specially if they served in combat and get a chance to shoot people. Not that's the kind of girl I like.
Like Scarlett O'Hara said, "money is the most important thing in the world." I agree, and if I ever marry I want my wife to get her ass out there and make some money because I ain't gonna be no goddamm sugar daddy that pays for her makeup, dresses, and whatnot. She wants that crap she can buy it herself with her own money.
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