He literally praised his wife's decision to NOT have a career to be a homemaker. He expressed this as being closer to God's will, and his earlier language suggested that women moving on with degrees to their careers have been told lies.
Wait. You're salty because he is proud of his wife for "embracing one of the most important titles of all: homemaker." Why does his praise for her making that decision cause you such anger? Is it because you've been lied to as well?
Women haven't been told the lie that the only way they can be fulfilled is to have a career and to push back against the traditional role a woman would hold in a marriage? They haven't been told they're lesser than if they choose to "just be a mom"?
It's gotten to the point that we have people in our society who don't think a woman can decide for herself that she can lead a fulfilling life as a mom. Society now bashes women who choose family over career while characterizing them as some abused stepford wife.
His own Mother had a career, still has a career, and the prominence of her career along with his Father's afforded him a life of notable privilege. And if I'm not mistaken his Sister is a lawyer.
Speaking of his mom and sister, I'd love to see what they have to say about this . . . . I bet if you asked him about their situations he'd say he's proud of them for their accomplishments just like he's proud of the choices his wife made.
This is just sanitized Stephen Crowder crap.
Not sure what Crowder has to do with any of this. He's not the best example of a husband or father from what I've seen.
Pre-determination of what a woman should and shouldn't do, from a man who came from a family where neither woman abided by these notions, and it didnt harm him one bit.
Pre-determination? Seriously? He's speaking at a graduation ceremony where every woman graduating has already decided to consider some level of employment or career outside the home.
There are many of us from families where both mom and dad worked outside the home. Most of us weren't harmed by that. That in no way takes away from the fact that kids often benefit from a stay-at-home parent.
People can choose if they want to be stay at home parents, and if they do that's on them.
Yes, they can. And they need to be reminded that this has value.
But he very clearly expressed that that's what women SHOULD do as an interpretation of religious doctrine, and suggested that not doing so is entertaining lies.
Yep. And those who disagree with that are free to do so. But that doesn't mean he's wrong.
I do find it interesting that this part of his speech is being ignored:
To the gentlemen here today: Part of what plagues our society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities. As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation. Other countries do not have nearly the same absentee father rates as we find here in the U.S., and a correlation could be made in their drastically lower violence rates, as well.