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RUSH: Looky here what I happen to be holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It is a story from the UK Guardian, and the date is today. “Should We Care That Smart Women are Not Having Kids?” It\u2019s not should we care that “stupid women” are not having kids. It\u2019s “Should We Care That Smart Women are Not Having Kids? — “It seems that women these days are too clever for their own good, at least when it comes to making babies.<\/p>\n

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“Research emerging from the London School of Economics examining the links between intelligence and maternal urges in women claims that more of the former means less of the latter. In an ideal world, such findings might be interpreted as smart women making smart choices, but instead it seems that this research is just adding fuel to the argument that women who don\u2019t have children, regardless of the reason, are not just selfish losers but dumb ones as well.”<\/p>\n

So it is true that in the UK, more and more women are deciding not to have babies. I think it\u2019s true here, too, and they\u2019re writing about it. It is related to feminism, and it\u2019s being associated with intelligence. Now, folks, I\u2019m here to tell you: I have made a career out of this. People on the left have got a problem with birth. There\u2019s something about that that sends them off the rails, and they are constantly writing and theorizing and talking about the beauties and the liberating aspects of abortion and how now it\u2019s very, very hip and cool for smart women not to be sucked into this motherhood thing. <\/p>\n

The barefoot-pregnant-in-the-kitchen trap.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You talk about the cutting edge of societal evolution? Right now Fox is doing a topic, “Having It All Without Having Kids,” and three women are discussing it. “Having It All Without Having Kids.” That happens to be the title of the most recent issue, cover story, TIME Magazine. I\u2019m telling you, folks, the elite feminist movement\u2019s got a problem with birth. Obviously abortion, they promote.<\/p>\n

It is the sacrament.<\/p>\n

Abortion is the sacrament.<\/p>\n

If liberalism is a religion, abortion is the sacrament, and then this TIME Magazine story and this story from the UK Guardian reporting that “smart women” are the ones not having kids. Well, of course! Of course dumb, stupid women are. What else have they got? They don\u2019t have the money or whatever to abort, but the smart women know that a kid is just nothing but an albatross!<\/p>\n

This has been one of the teachings of modern feminism. “Families, relationships, kids? That\u2019s a trap laid for women by men to keep them home, to keep them subservient, to keep them as servants — barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen!” It\u2019s to keep them, you know, “in their place,” if you will. The purpose of a kid is to occupy a woman so that the husband can run around and do whatever he wants, and the feminist movement rose up against that.<\/p>\n

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The modern era, beginning in the late sixties and seventies. By the way, the US birthrate is near… Well, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s an all-time low or near-record low, but it\u2019s terribly low, and our birthrate may be below replacement levels now, when you couple the number of abortions. I read there were nearly 400,000 abortions last year. There have been, statistically, the best approximation is about 1.5 million abortions, probably more now, since 1973, and the birthrate may not be — it\u2019s an all-time low. <\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s a good thing, TIME Magazine says. Yeah, it\u2019s a good thing that women aren\u2019t having kids! It\u2019s a liberating thing that women aren\u2019t having. Damn straight it is, and it\u2019s just other sock in the face to men. You know, you\u2019ve had it your way ever since Adam and Eve. Well, it\u2019s our turn now! We\u2019re not gonna bear your kids, and we\u2019re not gonna stay home and raise \u2019em and we\u2019re not just gonna sit here at home while you get to go do whatever you do. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna do all kinds of things here to liberate ourselves. We\u2019re not gonna give birth, and if an accident happens we\u2019re gonna abort it, and it\u2019s the smart women doing all this. That\u2019s what is becoming… Well, that\u2019s what is made to appear is happening, both in the TIME Magazine story and in this UK Guardian story. Now, the UK Guardian a little bit more guarded. “Should We Care That Smart Women Aren\u2019t Having kids?” <\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s a bit elitist because, of course, the question means, “Well, if it\u2019s just stupid women having kids, what are the kids gonna be? Do we just want nothing but stupid idiots? Maybe some smart women ought to be having kids so we have some smart kids. Feminists are starting to lose themselves in these philosophical discussions, which of course are rooted in self-absorption and maybe tinges of guilt, because what\u2019s going on here is a continuing, full-frontal assault on what has always been considered normalcy. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned back on the 1st of August, the 25th anniversary program<\/a>, that having done this 25 years, I\u2019m starting to see now repetition in issue after issue after issue. Ladies and gentlemen, an illustration of that is this TIME Magazine cover, “Having It All Without Having Children.” You go talk to a woman today, if you know a woman who is in her mid-fifties, late fifties, even early fifties, who was paying attention during the feminist-era days when this all began, the late sixties or seventies, and into the eighties. You talk to women who bought into it back then. You ask them if they\u2019ve heard this before, and, if they\u2019re honest with you, they will tell you, “Yeah, been there, done that.” <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the same thing. Back in the sixties and seventies at the early days of the modern era of feminism, it was the same argument: Do not have kids. That\u2019s a route to prison. That is how our patriarchal culture expresses you. You have the kid. You give birth. You ruin your life for nine months, then you are in prison until the kid leaves home. You\u2019re the one raising the kid. You\u2019re cooking. You\u2019re doing all these traditionally female things. You\u2019re the one in prison. You\u2019re the one being held back. That\u2019s what you must change. That\u2019s what those women back then were told. No relationship, no marriage, no kids, otherwise you\u2019re betraying the movement. It\u2019s repeating, almost word-for-word. And certainly the issue is the same whether they\u2019re using the identical words, they are. It\u2019s almost word-for-word how this is now happening. <\/p>\n

TIME Magazine cover: Having it all by not having kids. Having it all without having kids. It\u2019s just the late sixties and early seventies into the eighties being replayed, for a new generation of women. It\u2019s almost like TIME Magazine and these Drive-By Media places they put these things on their calendars 25 years ahead. And when the day arrives 25 years in the future, time to start recycling liberalism. Recycling global warming, all of these leftist political issues, recycle them every other generation or so. And it\u2019s happening around the world, hence this story from the UK Guardian. Should we care that smart women aren\u2019t having kids? Modern feminism.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Nirvana. Nirvana, in Jacksonville, Florida. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m great. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. I was wanting to call and comment about one of the things you had commented about feminazis and feminists before? I am a conservative, but I\u2019ve been classified often by others as a feminist. My mom is a liberal, very much feminist, and in fact she chose the career. She chose that path that, you know, the feminists were preaching at that time. You know, career, you don\u2019t have to have kids. She just had me, but when I decided to stay home with my kids she was like, “When are you gonna get a real job?” Now, mind you, I\u2019m a former —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold, hold, hold on. Slow down just a second. I have a question. How old is your mother?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s in her fifties. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Your mother\u2019s in her fifties, and so she\u2019s a feminazi feminist, but you\u2019re not; you\u2019re a modern feminist, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s how I see it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, you stay home with your kids, and your mother asks you, “When are you gonna get a job or go to work?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Get a real job, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Get a real job.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s just astounding. Your mother says that to you?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And my point behind that is, there\u2019s a lot of backlash between my generation and my mother\u2019s generation saying, yeah, we\u2019re glad you did that work, but you gotta realize it isn\u2019t all about career. It\u2019s for the choice that we can do this, because like myself, I would sacrifice for the feminist movement of that time, you know, I was left out in the wind in a lot of ways. In fact, there was a daughter of a very renowned feminist, I can\u2019t remember her name, but she wrote an entire article saying, you know, feminism is a lie, and that\u2019s what this generation is realizing, is, you know, we\u2019re not staying at home or we don\u2019t want to sacrifice our children in something just because we want a career. No, it\u2019s not us being held back —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what? When your mother was growing up, it wasn\u2019t get out of the house and go get a job; it was get a career in business. If women of your mother\u2019s age, when she was just getting out of college, whatever, being a teacher, no, don\u2019t do anything traditionally female. You go out and you go where men are, and you do what men are doing. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s one of the things that was wrong with that feminism. They didn\u2019t distinguish themselves; they wanted to go out and be just like men. Nirvana, can I ask you, you said your mother is in her fifties. Are you around the age of 24?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a little bit older than that. (laughing) But I\u2019m around that, yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. But you\u2019re close to it, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, add about 10 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re 34?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. No, if you were 24 I was just gonna ask you if I scare you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. No. Well, when I first started listening to you, but then, you know, you made some valid points, you know, after realizing, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I did scare you at first?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, you did. (laughing) But it was because you challenged my views. I was raised, you know, liberal Democrat, and then you\u2019re saying all these opposite viewpoints, and then I was like —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — you know, if I\u2019m going to disagree with him, I at least need to understand why. So then I started listening to you, and I was like, holy smokes, you have a point. You know, so I definitely changed over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I\u2019m glad you called. This is an interesting point because Nirvana here thinks that she\u2019s a feminist but in her mother\u2019s eyes she\u2019s letting the cause down by staying at home with her kids. Imagine that, now. That\u2019s how firm or strong the hold was. In the early days of the modern era, you gotta go back to the late sixties or seventies to understand this, the modern era and when it began and what it was made up of. Now we have a new category here, stay at home feminist, which I like. I like strong women. Always have. I just never wanted woman that wanted to be like me. Be a woman, for crying out loud. Anyway, I won\u2019t go there, dwindling time. Thank you, Nirvana. Appreciate that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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