- “If you look at the Homer Simpsons of the world [with regards to low intelligence], there are a lot more men than women”
- “wives spend money differently — or, I should say, that women spend money differently than men in terms of as it relates to children”
- “Fathers’ biological and socially-reinforced masculine qualities predispose them to treat their children differently than do mothers, correct?”
- “the differences between maternal and paternal behavior are more strongly related to either the parents’ biological gender or sex roles, than to either of their degree of involvement in infant care or their attitudes regarding the desirability of paternal involvement in infant care”
- “fathers are more concerned than mothers about the adoption of cultural values and traditionally-defined sex roles”
The picture of marriage the Prop 8 proponents rely on (which itself comes from long outdated scholarship as a factual matter) to justify their opposition to marriage equality includes not just [...] procreation as the necessary and primary goal of marriage[,] it also depends on a daddy who instills moral conservatism, a mommy who breast feeds and spends frivolously, and a mommy who helps her children’s dumb daddy negotiate life.(Had we, on first reading, noticed how sloppily that was expressed, we wouldn't have stolen it in the first place. But it's central to the point [No, it is the point. Look at the headline. — Ed.] so we cleaned it up a bit. After all, we're — The Ed.)
The proponents of Prop. 8 are now defining marriage as strictly a license to procreate. ("Marriage: It's just for literal breeders.") Yet they've been moaning for yrs. that the same-sex marriage supporters are trying to redefine marriage. Beyond the hypocrisy, which approach strengthens the institution, exclusion or inclusion?
*The Jim Anderson (as played by Robert Young) "Father Knows Best" Springfield. The one the Simpsons are mocking.
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