To paraphrase President Bartlett: I'm astonished and yet not surprised at the level of misogyny on display here.
Perhaps it would be better to say I'm dismayed, but hardly surprised.
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Originally Posted by SugahBritches
As a few commented, the traditional family went out pretty much in the 1960's.
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It depends on what you mean by that. If you mean that traditional families, in the sense of a married man and woman and their children living together in a single household, have ceased to exist, well that's simply not so. These may no longer be the majority, but they're still around, and they're still prominent enough that politicians tend to try to project this image and pander to those who either fit it or want to fit it.
If you mean the idea that this type of family is the only real way to be a family and that others are less has lost popularity, I'd say that it's been moving that way for some time and that's mostly a good thing. Devaluing families that don't fit this mold as unworthy doesn't benefit anyone other than those who want to hijack "family values" as a way of supporting their own demagoguery. This is one of those phrases I think it would be nice to redefine to better reflect our society rather than trying to force those who don't fit it into a mold that doesn't work for them. But that's another discussion.