This whole thing about Unfortunate Implications is more than a little ridiculous...I get that it's wrong to suggest that only a mother and father together can raise a proper family, but that's not what the movie was saying. The moral was that children should be raised with love from both parents whenever it's possible to allow them to - i.e., if both parents are competent enough to provide care and spend time with them. In the movie, the Martian women were deliberately supressing and ostracizing the men by dropping them down the garbage chute, thereby denying their children the best upbringing that they could've had. (Nevermind how it's made clear that the mothers aren't raising their young anyway - the plot is centered around them programming robots to do it for them.)
Just as an example, a woman keeping the father of her child from seeing him or her, for no reason other than spite...According to whoever edited this page, a judge who demands that the father receive visitation is in the wrong for inherently suggesting that the single mother wouldn't do a good enough job on her own. If I'm understanding it right, it feels as though that's what this page is saying.
And I have tried to justify and explain some of this on the page itself, but it was deleted soon afterward, which is why I'm bringing it up here.
This whole thing about Unfortunate Implications is more than a little ridiculous...I get that it's wrong to suggest that only a mother and father together can raise a proper family, but that's not what the movie was saying. The moral was that children should be raised with love from both parents whenever it's possible to allow them to - i.e., if both parents are competent enough to provide care and spend time with them. In the movie, the Martian women were deliberately supressing and ostracizing the men by dropping them down the garbage chute, thereby denying their children the best upbringing that they could've had. (Nevermind how it's made clear that the mothers aren't raising their young anyway - the plot is centered around them programming robots to do it for them.)
Just as an example, a woman keeping the father of her child from seeing him or her, for no reason other than spite...According to whoever edited this page, a judge who demands that the father receive visitation is in the wrong for inherently suggesting that the single mother wouldn't do a good enough job on her own. If I'm understanding it right, it feels as though that's what this page is saying.
And I have tried to justify and explain some of this on the page itself, but it was deleted soon afterward, which is why I'm bringing it up here.
Edited by sugaricequeen