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2025-09-23 -Great Cultural Revolution

Erika Kirk Reminds Us That Devoted Wives Change The World

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-23 10:15|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1786 views ] Top

1 Marriage, children, devotion, selfless commitment? No wonder the left hates these people.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-23 10:21|| 2025-09-23 10:21|| Front Page Top

2 Behind every great man there is a strong woman pushing.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-23 10:31|| 2025-09-23 10:31|| Front Page Top

3 Not pushing so much as supporting his choices and his work, Skidmark. I’ve seen men pushed beyond their ability to fulfill the wife’s ambition — neither was made happy by it.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-23 12:17|| 2025-09-23 12:17|| Front Page Top

4 ...that's the old moral tale.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-09-23 12:22|| 2025-09-23 12:22|| Front Page Top

5 ^#3 @TW: I have been reading the book "In the Beginning: Crucial Lessons for Our World from the First Three Chapters of Genesis" by Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller. Perhaps you would find it interesting. Here's a quote of the author in an interview about the book (link)

One of the most fun things I did in writing this book, was to give the true meaning of what it means for God to have created that woman. We have the translations from the original Hebrew. For example, a lot of times it’ll be, “I will create the helpmate.” In the Elizabethan English, the help meet or the suitable partner. The helper fit for him. We’re all over the map in terms of what word. What’s the original Hebrew word? The ezer, okay? I will create the ezer, E-Z-E-R. Okay, in Semitic languages, the ezer is a savior figure. Somebody who rescues somebody who’s in serious trouble, okay? For example, if you were in a car wreck on the expressway and the Good Samaritan comes along, yeah, you would call that person somebody who came to help me.

Okay, but what’s the deeper context of the person who stopped and helped you in the car wreck? Somebody who probably saved your life. Called 911, got you out of a burning wreck, or whatever. That’s what the woman is doing for Adam. She is rescuing him, saving him from the problem of his original isolation. Then you have this fantastic eruption of, basically, the first human speech. The first human speech is about unity and communion between persons. This one at last, it’s a celebration of the other. This one at last is bone of my bone, in flesh of my flesh. Then we get the ultimate meaning of what it means to be human. For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. I argue in this book, and it goes to the whole issue of contraception and abortion as well, the woman is the center of human communion.

Posted by Melancholic 2025-09-23 18:55|| 2025-09-23 18:55|| Front Page Top

6 Interesting, Melancholic. The rabbis argue (because rabbis always argue — that’s how they work together to figure things out over the millennia) that mitzvahs, that is mandatory good deeds, of prayer in synagogue and study are required of men but not of women because women are intrinsically holier, so for them such things are optional. Granted, I understand there also is a prayer for men thanking God they were not born female, but given that I regularly am grateful to not be male, that seems more parochial than s3xist.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-23 23:55|| 2025-09-23 23:55|| Front Page Top

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