feminism mop up

This is a response to my polemical post 'feminism is not responsible for...' from a few days ago.

1. I was kidding about global warming. I've never heard that pinned on feminism.

2. Working mums, institutionalised child care, pornography, raunch culture, and homosexuality have, of course, been influenced by feminist thinking. The point I'd like to make is that there were/are broader things going on in our culture that have made a bigger impact than feminism. It gets on my nerves when Christians see feminism as the big nasty that we need to shoot down (not noticing that, in many ways, it's already dead) instead of the bigger, nastier and more insidious evils of capitalism, greed, power hunger and our insatiable sexual lust.

When was the last time you heard of a young guy wanting to put a dent in captitalism's hold on our country? Ummm. Never. How about someone writing/preaching anti-feminist stuff? Last week? Yesterday?

I think it takes little guts to preach against feminism because that's where our society is going anyway. More than ever, girls are dreaming of life-long marriage to Prince Charming and planning to forsake career for his sake. Doctors are telling us to have kids earlier. Politicians are telling us to have more kids. It is not counter cultural for our preachers to be telling us this stuff.

It is counter cultural for our preachers to tell us to reject capitalism: to rent a small house in a low socio-economic suburb, to buy a cheap car, to send our kids to state schools (and limit their academic and social advancement)... to do whatever to show that money and power don't matter. This is what I need to hear. I don't need to hear about whether or not women should be working outside the home.

The trouble with work...

... is that it's so hard to just do a little bit.

I am working 4 days this week. Don't want to. I should have said no this morning but wasn't thinking.

Today I taught classroom music for a teacher I like and respect who is 8 months pregnant with twins. Today it was 32 degrees. I can understand why she wasn't up to going in to work. I was asked to work because I would actually do music with her kids rather than just do... whatever it is that non-music teachers do when taking music.

But I was already booked up at the kids school to teach PE (!) on Wednesday and Year 5 on Thursday. This afternoon the school called to see if I could also work Friday teaching the same class as Thursday. I said yes because having the same teacher 2 days in a row is clearly best for the kids and because I want to suck up to the kid's school (working there is so convenient and eventually I'd like to only work there).

But now I'm working 4 days this week and tomorrow is flat out hectic anyway (bs/RE). How did this happen?