I'm struggling a bit as one who knows my history, at the idea that women being in the workplace is as problematic as some of you think it is, and thinking you haven't gone back far enough to be logically consistent in your arguments......
Perhaps you should go back far enough to keep women out of college. (Definitely med school, or law school. You don't have to go back far for that). That old college education and realization that there may be more to life than cooking and sewing should be stopped. (I actually know people who think it's more "Christian" to deny their daughters a college education, so why not all of us?)
Then again, maybe we should go back a bit farther and make sure our daughters don't learn to read and write. Now THOSE were the good old days! Martin Luther didn't think women were smart enough to read, so we could go back to him. But I guess he didn't know about Hildegarde of Bingen who preceded him by 400 years or so, and was a brilliant philosopher, scientist, composer, theologian.... all because some dingbat convent taught her to read.
Women getting out of their "God-given" role.....
Maybe we should blame Jane Austen, the first woman who made her living as an author, or Fanny Mendelssohn, who was as good of a composer as her brother, Felix. Never heard of her? Oh, that's right. She was a woman, and couldn't get her works published because of that. Let's go back, OK?
On the other hand, we could blame the westward expansion for the problem. Those uppity women could shoot game, run the homestead, chop wood, tend the animals while hubby was away, and protect the home from attacks. Made the womenfolk think they were equal. In fact, it just happened to be Wyoming who first gave women the right to vote. Let's blame the problem on the rural west, shall we? Women voting?? Men cooking?? Outrageous!
Just read the stories written by pioneer women. They should all have been stopped from going beyond their "God -given" roles, just let the menfolk do all the hard work, and die if the men weren't around to protect them.
Maybe we should blame letting women participate in sports. All those little girls should be home cooking instead of learning how to throw a ball, kick a goal, score a 3 pointer. Makes them all uppity. (You just need to go back to the early 1960's for that one).
As far as the absence of grandmothers is concerned,
@roamer_1 .......... my Mom didn't have grandparents around because they were back in Sweden when her parents came to America. Perhaps the emigration from Europe (or elsewhere) is the problem, and everyone who came to America without their parents, should have stayed home.
OR................. maybe we should go back to Jesus, who absolutely revolutionized the role of women within the Jewish culture..... treated us as equals, respected us...... SHAME on Him for changing women's roles!
Better yet, let's all forget about that Proverbs 31 woman, who was as competent and able in the workplace as she was at home. Looks like we need to go to the beginning of time to get women to do what they're supposed to do. Right???
All this historically accurate sarcasm aside, blaming 20th-21st century (pseudo) feminism and women in the workplace for the ills in society is blaming the symptom for the disease. (Leftists only care about abortion and lesbians. Calling their political ploys "feminism" is just one of their multitudinous lies).
The disease is SIN. Self-centeredness, greed, back-biting, anger, hatred, lack of submission, immorality, and a plethora of other cultural problems. SIN.
There are clearly problems in our culture, but if you blame the symptom and not the disease, all you're doing is spinning your wheels.
Now, I'll go do what women are supposed to do (not this thinking and writing and standing up for oneself that women shouldn't be doing), and decorate some Christmas cookies like a good girl. ^-^