As a result of the last post, on SG the discussion had various points. One of the (many) poorly understood “red pills” that are probably the result of your average incel believing/taking advice from your average PUA, is this idea that women should not have an education.
In typical incel fashion, the pagans, the “red pilled” retards, and so on, seem to think that the general aim for humanity is for women not only to reject feminism (a good thing), but also to be semi-literate baby machines (not a good thing – the semi literate part. Like it or not, only women can make babies and everyone normal is fine with it. I know, shocker!).
That may work for you if you are of a certain religious persuasion that tends to hang around camels as nomads in the desert, but by and large is not a great idea for a happy marriage. At least, certainly not for me.
The problem is not a woman being well educated. The problem is if she buys into the feminist and other utter idiocy that the nonsense farms (colleges, universities, schools in general) put on blast every day you are there.
Even in the past, it was thought that for a woman to be well-read was a bonus. And personally, I have always been quite impressed by those women I came to know that had a varied and sometimes surprising number and type of books that they had read.
My wife has a facility with words for example and she is usually way ahead of me in things like anagrams, or play on words, and puns that I dare not repeat, for they are truly awful, as puns are meant to be. But more recently, she has even begun to mix English and Italian words into new constructions. Piggolina for example a mix of Piglet and Piccolina, for our second youngest, who has yet to find a food she does not like munching on.
And although she has not exactly had time since we have been together, she enjoyed reading Jane Eyre and is quite particular about enunciating words correctly and so on. She even managed to read through a couple or three of my fictions books. At least one before we were even together, a feat I don’t think many (any?) women accomplished, including the previous ex-wives. More importantly, I can talk with her about pretty much any topic and receive a reasonable feedback. You know, in the fleeting moments between various work things, and one or more of the five children climbing a wall after some fashion, needing to eat, or get changed, or somehow interrupting in new and varied ways.
The point is that a good education is a good thing, as long as the basics of life are understood. And increasingly, it looks like going back to earlier paper versions of books is really a good idea. I have four daughters, and while I do hope they find good men early and make lots of babies and live happily ever after, I fully intend to see to it they have a decent grasp of logic, reasoning in general, mathematics, and language(s), as well as reading and writing skills that are today seen as exemplary, but that in my day and opinion are merely normal. And if they should pick up how to change a tire, clean out a carburettor, fire a few types of weapons, survey a parcel of land, balance accounting books, and (please God) learn to operate the sewing machine stored in the side room, well, so much the better.
Which reminds me, Vox recently pointed out that books 1 to 8 I believe, of the Castalia House junior classics, are ready for shipping. And you can pick up the entire ebook set for $35 right now, so although if you can get the paper version it’s safer from the EMP strikes of nuclear war, and thus more reliable for when you’re hunkered down in your bunker, it’s certainly a good investment of great stories you can read to your children and then pass on for them to read to theirs eventually.
Along with a hand-written manual with a few blood spots on it of how to survive and navigate our own fast-approaching version of Alpha Complex.
Maybe I’m not as tapped into the women hating crowd as I thought but I always thought when people said something like this they meant “formally educated”, which I believe in the far more reasonable position that no one should be formally educated.
Letters, arithmetic, home economics, chemistry, agriscience and animal husbandry are all valuable topics for anyone to learn, especially someone who is meant to keep a household. Lydia the dyer of cloths probably had all these skills. People are always looking at the current model of the world and wanting to keep it while fixing specific parts and failing to understand that it’s bad rootstock and needs to be ripped out and burned completely (Denninger’s basic failing).
The root of the problem is “educated” has come to mean formally indoctrinated at an accredited institution. A good wife keeps a good house, and an education that furthers that aim is an incredibly useful tool that a man should appreciate.