{"id":36627,"date":"2013-05-30T22:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/erick-erickson-is-a-dolt-taint-natural-edition.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:18:40","slug":"erick-erickson-is-a-dolt-taint-natural-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/erick-erickson-is-a-dolt-taint-natural-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Erick Erickson Is a Dolt (‘Tain’t Natural Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Erickson, head of conservative blogging site RedState, decried a new Pew poll showing that women were the sole or primary breadwinner in 40% of households with children (of those, 40% had mothers who were the higher-paid or only income in the family; 60% were single mothers).<\/p>\n

'I\u2019m so used to liberals telling conservatives that they\u2019re anti-science. But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology \u2014 when you look at the natural world \u2014 the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it\u2019s not antithesis, or it\u2019s not competing, it\u2019s a complimentary role.'<\/i><\/p>\n

"Reality" shows us that having a female breadwinner is bad for kids and marriage, Erickson says.<\/p>\n

I always love to hear conservatives draw lessons from nature, since such lessons invariably match their predispositions. \u00a0I could point to any number of species where females are the primary caretakers and<\/i> providers for their children, and males are irrelevant or an actual threat to offspring. I could point to any number of species where sexual partnership is a matter of which male is the better fighter, or how many mates the female chooses to pick. \u00a0I could point to any number of species where homosexuality occurs, or where parents eat their offspring, or where parents abandon their children.<\/p>\n

My point is not to draw moral equivalence to any of those, but to suggest that most conservative pundits would not turn to what "nature" does as a justification for those behaviors in humans. \u00a0When it's convenient<\/i> (i.e., in alignment with what they want), they look to nature. When it's not, they turn to the Bible. When neither fit their agenda, they turn to "tradition." \u00a0None of those are objective or consistent arguments. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Erickson's lamenting of changes in American employment demographics are one thing. We can debate what the effects are of such changes, as well as their causes. But for him to argue against them because, based on his opinions of the animal kingdom "it t'ain't natural" goes so far beyond ludicrous that it almost presents an arguments against<\/i> his doltish position.<\/div>\n

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Erick Erickson: Female Breadwinners Are Antithetical To Nature (VIDEO)<\/a>
\n After Pew released a report yesterday that found mothers to be the primary or sole breadwinners in 40% of American households with children, Fox Business aired the study Wednesday evening, and several Fox contributors, all men, expressed their dismay at the findings. Host Lou\u00a0Dobbs called the Pew report further proof of “society dissolving around us,” and Juan Williams blamed\u2026\n <\/p>\n

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Erickson, head of conservative blogging site RedState, decried a new Pew poll showing that women were the sole or primary breadwinner in 40% of households with children (of those, 40% had mothers who were the higher-paid or only income in the family; 60% were single mothers). 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