Good discussion folks.
Christiane, I hear you re. the need to finesse the message so that it's acceptable to the target audience, so I agree that being too harsh vis-a-vis 'if you're not an anti-feminist you're the enemy' isn't realistic or productive at the moment. However, for me it's correct and appropriate, so I will continue to hold to that credo personally, in private, and here, among allies. To the public the message will be softened.
As for SAHMs being natural allies of the MRM? Sure - makes sense to me. IMO love for husbands is one motivation, love for sons (their flesh and blood) is more strong, and maintaining the lifestyle they are accustomed to is the strongest. Being realistic and not intentionally disparaging, I believe that the priority ranking for women is self-preservation first, then offspring, followed by spouse. You almost never see women sacrificing themselves for others the way men do; men will literally sacrifice their lives for others. In my experience women won't, they're very much about self-preservation first. Thus, I believe that when recruiting SAHMs to the MRM we need to highlight what's in it for them, i.e., self-preservation, which I think is a no-brainer. As you and others have noted, feminists have trashed SAHMs for decades, so it seems to me that is would be easy to prove to reasonable, rational people that feminists would like to see the SAHM lifestyle eliminated. In other words, feminists want to force women who are SAHMs to give up their preferred, chosen lifestyle in order to suit the feminist's totalitarian idea of women's role in society. To me that sounds like something out of the Stalinist Soviet Union or communist China and is most definitely anti-choice for women.
Folks, self-preservation for the SAHM lifestyle is the key to their hearts. Show them that the feminists are a direct threat to that and we're halfway there.
