Christian Blogger: Women Are Taking Spots in Medical School That “Belong to Men”
Lori Alexander, the Christian blogger whose fundamentalist content is so outrageous, you don’t know if it’s serious or satire, says it’s awful — awful — that women are becoming doctors.
They’re “taking men’s positions in medical schools that should belong to men” and this will ruin their families!
This country needs more mothers at home full time raising their own children than it needs female doctors. Men can be doctors but they can’t be mothers. Only mothers can be mothers and NO ONE can replace a mother in a child’s life.
Yeah, screw you, fathers. You thought you were contributing to your family?! Lies. Now shut up and get back to work.
Why would women even want to work full-time jobs? Satan.
No long-term good comes out of women leaving their homes. Nothing. Satan convinced women to spend years and a lot of money getting a higher education and then a degree.
Lori Alexander also lets us know why you shouldn’t invite her to parties.
Some women will proudly tell me that their sons have married doctors or that their daughters are doctors. Silently, I grieve for the lack of grandchildren they will most likely have because of this decision. No, I don’t rejoice with them. I would rather tell others about the grandchildren my children are raising and that their mothers are home with them full time.
If your first reaction to a stranger telling you about her doctor daughter is grief, you’re the problem.
This is a perfect example of the problem with conservative Christianity. Believers are fully convinced that the decisions they make are always the decisions you should make.
Lori Alexander wants to be a housewife, therefore all women need to join her. She doesn’t want to be a doctor, so other women shouldn’t be doctors. She lives in a Christian bubble where women are treated as inferior, and she wants everyone to join her inside. And if you don’t make the same decisions she does, she looks down upon you.
I would rather tell them that my children valued their children over careers.
And I would celebrate a daughter who does whatever makes her happy. Clearly Satan’s taken over my brain.
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Satan convinced women to spend years and a lot of money getting a higher education and then a degree.
Thank-you, Satan
Satan rocks. He even lets me put food on my table.
These are the times when I wish that technology gave us the ability to schedule either a tornado or a meteorite via GPS coordinates.
I've heard this same nonsense from relgious fundies when I tell that I am an engineer. Apparently I am supposed to be Susy homemaker.
Not to mention barefoot and pregnant, cooking dinner for the man and greet him with his pipe and slippers when he gets home.
If she has time to blog, obviously she's not spending all her time as a mother, now is she?
She also needs to stop listening to Dr Laura
How quickly some forget. Despite setting the curve in all her pre-med classes at Oklahoma University my Mother who desired to become a surgeon was given an F in all pf her pre-med courses in 1952. When she asked professors why she was told to speak to the dean who said, "No woman surgeons will ever graduate the OU School of Medicine". The first female surgical resident to graduate from the OU School of Medicine was in 1988. That was not that very long ago...
That's disgusting what they did to your mother!
Mom dropped out of OU, married Daddy, moved to Paris as an Officer's wife then later attended Oklahoma College for Women where she got a teaching degree which was considered more appropriate for a woman. Women were kept out of many professions and not that very long ago either. It is no wonder Mom became a bit of a feminists. Nothing motivated women more than being forced out of their desired careers. Women's Colleges are an anachronism now...
The best advice my mother ever gave me was get an education and don't get in a hurry to get married and make babies. Live your life first.
Thanks, Mom. I do miss you
You had many opportunities women before you did not. My father's mother was 29 when she first got to vote. Don't think she had not resented not being able to vote. It was a big issue. The women of today stand on the shoulders of those women who fought for women's rights back then and women in the future will owe a debt to all the women blazing trails for women in all the professions now. Still, it was white women who stood in the proverbial school house door blocking HRC's historic run. Women are sometimes women's worst enemies if you ask me. I saw how hard they were to one another in the corporate world myself. I guess competition sometimes overrules gender loyalty, well, if there is such a thing...
Believe it or not, the first woman to rise high in my former profession did all she could to remain the only woman in our profession. She was the only woman at my level within one of the world's largest corporations and for years she plainly sabotaged other women's careers. Thank goodness those days are gone, too...
No, they're not totally gone. We still have women trying to sabotage other women. This seed is a fine example. Dr Laura is another. She became a very successful talk show host but tells other women to get back in the house and take care of their kids, even when the kids are old enough to take care of themselves
She reminds me of Phyllis Schlafly in that regard....Do as I say, not as I do. Shameful that they would deny other women their right to make their own decisions about how to live their lives....while they don't practice what they preach.
Hideous women.
I really have a problem with this. My children are not baby makers. They are PEOPLE that have their own lives. It is not their job to provide me with grandchildren. To me this woman sounds extremely selfish.
Agreed. That thinking went out a few decades ago. In the old days the only duties of a wife, or women, was to service their husbands and provide children to carry on the family bloodline, or to use as bargaining pawns. And Grandchildren were a must to continue the family bloodline, etc. If a woman could not have children (which often was the fault of the male), she was either cast off, or even killed, to allow the man to remarry. A woman basically had no other purpose and no other value as a human being. The were merely chattel to be used or discarded as the male or his family saw fit.
The sad part is, this is still alive and well even today.
I have to wonder what would become of my daughter in a time & place where women are just breeders. She cannot have children. Would they simply toss her on a dung heap? When this shit keeps popping up it angers me because it insinuates my daughter is less than a woman because she cannot reproduce. The good thing for her is that she never wanted children - she does not like them. She likes her freedom to come & go and enjoys a career in family counseling. Is she less than a woman who has children. I do not think so, but then again some people think it is ok if she died because of her illness.
I want grandchildren some day but I am happy to wait until my children are ready to have them. Their dad keeps telling them to have fun and get it out of the way because once you have kids, the fun times come to halt. Not that having children isn't a reward on its own (or so I've been told), but spontaneous weekend trips and spending money on new cat towers won't be doable once the kids come along.
Absolutely not to anyone with a rational and compassionate mind.
Women throughout time have had fulfilling lives without having children. Children don't define a woman.
Not in my book. There are many women today and in the past who could not have children. In the past she likely would not be able to marry if it was known she could not reproduce. However, in today's world there are men who are not interested in having children, or, who themselves are sterile for some reason. Being able to have children in both cases is not as big a deal as it was in the past, and many couples are able to live happy and productive lives together.
Also, families don't have the domineering influence on their children's lives as in the past, and that is a big plus. At least in my opinion.
Thus why my daughter was not anxious to have children. Until she was told pregnancy could kill her she had to live with people telling her "one day you will want them". I always told her that my mother was told that, too and she had 6 kids she didn't want or like. Some women are not meant to be mothers.
That is the truth. And I have know a few in my life who fit that shoe. I am sure that your Daughter will be able to live a very happy and productive life in spite of her illness. She sounds like a very level headed and capable woman. That is all that matters. What other think does not really matter. As long is she is happy with her life, that is all that counts.
I have one daughter, three granddaughters and six great grand daughters. Their professions range from a linguist for internal relations, A R.N. and two business owners. The great grand daughters are still in school....
So WTH is this dumb ass taking about. In addition to their professional lives all are married and have children...Their husband are real men that support them in their endeavors in life...
This does not include a son, a grandson and six more great grandsons...
People like this dumb ass really piss me off.
Yeah, but .... Jesus
I always think of Elizabeth I.
The female doctors, dentists and veterinarians I deal with are all very good and worthy of the slot they had in school
Until now I was unaware the female doctors were unable to have children, who knew?
I'll have to tell that to my Doctor, whose is expecting her third child in 3 months.
Buddy of mine has 6 kids, all between the ages of 10 and 11.
that's impressive....I think
Lol, no doubt she'll be somewhat surprised to find this out.
Multiple births I gather?
"Lol, no doubt she'll be somewhat surprised to find this out."
Indeed. She's a very down to earth and savvy lady, which is why I like her. She has no problem in telling it like it is and likes to keep it simple. I have a very high regard for her as a Doctor, and a person. She is very caring and concerned about her patients. To her they are real people, not just numbers, or an insurance pawn to get as much out of as she can. I find her very rare in today's world, and feel lucky I found her.
I'm a dentist. I once had a female patient tell me that she wasn't comfortable seeing a female dentist. I really had to wonder why she'd call a dentist with an obviously feminine first name.
And to the blogger - yes, my practice keeps me pretty busy. Somehow, I still managed to have a son. Most of the female dentists and doctors I know have kids. Some have multiple kids. Some even have stay-at-home husbands who take care of those kids during the day, and seem to do a fine job at it. Last I checked, men were capable of cooking, cleaning, bandaging scraped knees, and doling out hugs. I know whenever I was sick as a child, I'd much rather my father take care of me than my mother. He was the one who coddled me. Still does, sometimes.
I find it funny when people care what gender their caretaker is.
When I was in the hospital, I needed help going to the bathroom. My nurse was a man. I didn't care because I was in too much pain to care
I agree. Why would someone who preferred male Doctors call for an appointment with someone with an obvious female name, then complain that they prefer males. Sounds rather strange to me. Some people are indeed hard to figure. It's like, they think only a male would be competent enough to do the job right. I frankly prefer a female Dentist, as they are better able to understand things from the female aspect as far as looks are concerned. However, that is just me. I have had plenty of male Dentists and they have done a good job. So I have nothing against male Doctors or Dentists, it's just that I feel more comfortable with a female Doctor.
Heehee... reminds me of when I was in a car accident and taken to the ER. I had to urinate so bad.... finally a male nurse brought a bed pan (I was still strapped to the board) - he asked if I could wait for a female nurse - I told him to shove the bedpan under me or clean wet sheets.
LOL, perfect.
Oh hell that's nothing MrFrost, I was born before my father was....Before you say that's impossible I have to confess that I'm a ''shape shifter''....It's true.
I was joking but, they do have 6 kids, all about a year apart. Conjugal visits in the hospital is my guess.
That didn't make me laugh. I'm male but that mental image even made MY "jigglypuff" tingle unpleasantly.
That DID make me laugh!
This is also news to me. I had to see a new Dr this week because my regular DR is on maternity leave until August, for the 2nd time.
I know, weird isn't it.
I actually know a few conservative religious minded posters on NT who would applaud this and agree with it 100% - it's rather pathetic.
Damn - if I couldn't work and no longer have young children I would be bored beyond belief.
Well if you could no longer provide young children then obviously you should do the only decent thing and go live in a nunnery so your husband could marry a younger more fertile woman that could carry on popping out children.
Disclosure the above was said purely in jest.
I kind of figured.
When my husband & I see stuff like this and I suggest being "put out to pasture" he laughs and says that after being married 33 years and dating for 7 years before that I am trained perfectly & he wouldn't want to start all over.
He's got a sense of humor. He's a keeper.
Yea... I kinda like him & I really wouldn't want to train a new one either.
That training guys can be a real bitch...My wife told me that if she had to retrain me it could mean divorce.
I told her that I'm more than worth the time invested in training an old Indian. What other guy could she train that had longer hair then she has...LOL
By now I'm sure he is as well
Yes. He is. We are well suited. My kids call us Irma & Morty from the Swiffer commercials.
My daughter was bitching about her husband when they were newly married. She said something about her father and how smart he is or something and I told her it took years of training, they don't come out of the box that way.
This ''person'' wins the ''dumb ass of the decade award'' hands down.
I guess that is what's happens when your head is so far up your ass that all oxygen to the tiny brain of his is cut off....
Lol while I agree she's a contender, there's some pretty stiff competition for that title
That's an understatement.