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Comment author: Azathoth123 31 October 2014 04:41:41AM 2 points [-]

If it turns out that it is specifically families led by women that are having more trouble making ends meet

What do you mean by "having more trouble making ends meet"? Between welfare programs and the occasional affirmative action job the women are perfectly capable of providing enough food for their children. It's just that the children are growing up feral, for lack of a better word.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 31 October 2014 04:54:43AM 2 points [-]

Are you claiming that women who are alone cannot raise good kids?

That's contradictory. I thought raising kids was what women were traditionally described as good for.

Or are you claiming that women can only raise good kids when a man is present?

That's the best argument I've seen for stay-at-home dads, but I bet you'd see that as a degeneration of the good old values.

Or are you claiming that men are the indispensable and irreplaceable moral compass of a family?

Now that's bovine feces, for lack of a better word.

Comment author: Azathoth123 31 October 2014 05:58:42AM 5 points [-]

Or are you claiming that women can only raise good kids when a man is present?

That's the best argument I've seen for stay-at-home dads, but I bet you'd see that as a degeneration of the good old values.

Hint: present =/= literally present every second.

Or are you claiming that men are the indispensable and irreplaceable moral compass of a family?

Now that's bovine feces, for lack of a better word.

Translation: "I can't think of an even vaguely passable rebuttal, better resort to name calling."

Comment author: polymathwannabe 31 October 2014 02:26:39PM *  2 points [-]

... says the guy who at the beginning of this debate called me an ignorant in history.

Look, I made no claims about you. I dismissively sneered at one idea you expressed. There is a difference.

Now back to the actual argument: A city affected by bad management and a bad economy adds a ton of confounding factors to any assessment of gender relations. You need to look at non-patriarchal societies that have kept all other variables unchanged, and claiming that abandoning patriarchy is the cause of bad management and bad economy simply won't do.