Posted on 06/04/2004 12:43:30 PM PDT by cyborg
Dear American Feminists,
I am a thirty year old woman living in the United States and have been studying what is known as 'the women's movement'. I've read some of your books especially those written by Gloria Steinem and other famous women's rights advocates. Reading these books I hoped to gain some insight into the movement that my fellow conservatives railed against. I sought to find out why Rush Limbaugh takes such obvious delight in calling all of you feminazis.
I disagreed with the goals of the feminists such as abortion rights, putting career ahead of family and so on. I thought it would be easy for me to go on with my life and allow you to go promoting feminist causes. After all, this is America and I don't spend my time telling other people how to behave and what to think. However, I did not realize the impact that the feminist movement had in the lives of men and women in this country till I started dating (if it can be called such).
I hope you are happy with yourselves. You've made it possible for more girls to enter spinsterhood than ever before all the while going psychotic and starving ourselves to death into an early grave besides. The biblical verse (I know you hate christianity but please excuse me) that states 'what does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul' comes to mind. What does it matter if I'm rich with a great career, my own car, a healthy 'sex life' and nice clothes if I'm alone when I'm eighty rocking myself to sleep in a dirty nursing home all alone with no grandchildren? Perhaps you don't care that many men cringe at the idea of getting married because you don't care for the institution of getting married yourselves. Perhaps not having children doesn't bother you because you're too busy advocating the murder of children in the womb.
You talk about us women embracing our 'real bodies' and 'our fat womyn' BUT what do you feminists fill your magazines with? It's not 'real womyn' that is for sure. You peddle independent womanhood in the form of acting like a slut, dressing like a slut and having women portrayed as black widows. You champion little girls wearing g-strings and playing rainbow braclet gamwes while condemning girls who save themselves for marriage, or girls who are celibate and dress modestly as 'old fashioned' and 'out of touch'.
My thirtieth birthday came and went, and so far I've learned that many men don't respect women. A married man will go over land sea and tell all kinds of lies to get sex from a girl. I've also learned that trying to attract the attentions of man already burned once by a 'independent woman' is a fruitless effort and these men don't go through half the trouble single men or married men do to use a girl sexually. They do no think we women are worth it. I wonder how many girls will learn about your lies the hard way? How many girls will have a mother like mine to listen to the whining and frustration then only to say, 'see? You need to church and get right with God.' not mothers who are interested in being their best buddies and further encourage promiscuity.
Many young men don't even want to get married but instead wait for those women willing to have casual sex with them. You taught these girls that having unattached sex is the mark of a proud, independent woman like Sex in the City for instance. You trash Jessica Simpson for being a brainless idiot but we BOTH know why you really trash her and don't trash Britney Spears. Frustrated fathers raise sons and tell them never to get married. What are girls like me supposed to do? Or is my choice to want to be a wife and mother not as vaunted as having abortions or group sex on MTV? Bring up marriage and children to a single man these days, and a girl will find herself all alone on a Saturday night. So what's a girl to do? Don't bother answering feminists. American culture has had enough of your answers. Your well intentioned moral boondoggles have hurt women more than you will ever realize. Let's hope you don't spread your false gospel elsewhere.
Thank you for your time.
I think I've had time to digest this, but I'm still trying to compose a proper response.
Well, I'm glad you let your feelings be known. It does help to get these things out into the open. Fresh air does help the soul.
It's funny that you mentioned Limbaugh at the beginning of your post, because he has this great riff on the prolonged adolescence of today's youth, which I think ties into many of your complaints about finding a suitable mate.
One thing the feminists have managed to accomplish over the previous thirty or so years, is to exculpate men from any type of moral responsibility. You brought this up-either implicitly or explicitly-several times in the course of your comments, which I think were very perceptive regarding the imbalance between the sexes.
I don't know if you've ever read "The Feminine Mystique", but it offers you a good idea of where this type of mentality originated. I have read it-don't laugh, you have to read that sort of crap to get an American Studies degree-and found Friedan's arguments to be very hollow.
I'd delve a little bit deeper into this aspect of the tortured, feminist interpretation of free will, but I'm sure that you've got dozens-if not hundreds-of takers who want to join in on the fray.
Let's rumble!
Bravo.
Have you ever read any Camille Paglia?
http://www.geocities.com/arlindo_correia/021000.html
Regards,
I sincerely hope you're wearing body armor...you're gonna get it...
Try taking personal responsibility for your spinsterhood rather than blaming it on others.
Women LOVE to have the doors opened for them and all the rest of it. Don't let any witchy, immature teeny bopper tell you differently.
Come to suburban Middle America. When the young gals in my office complain about impolite males in the big city, I tell them they are looking for dates in the wrong places. I go to the local post office about twice a day and someone ALWAYS opens the door for me! I've had the door opened by 80 year olds and 16 year olds and everything in between! And I return the favor whenever possible. It's always a smile and a "good morning" and a "thank you" and a "have a nice day."
Really!
The links are still there, but I'm slowly changing around the pictures and trying to organize it a bit more.
2 other caues of the Feminist movement: More Gays and Semi-Gays (metro-sexuals)!~}
You nailed it!
I can be picky when I have something to pick :D
Nice home page!
Great rant! Right on too.
The one page linked to some weird articles. Very erotic if I must say.
Absolutely...and another freeper mentioned holding the door open. Guys still do but they get a look of shock whenI say thank you *lol*
Not blaming it on others, just making an observation about the culture I live in.
Oh, cy...I wish there was something I could do for you. But all the men I know who are the marrying kind are...
...you guessed it...
...married.
thanks :)
By the way, Paglia, along with Tammy Bruce and Dusty Springfield, will be added shortly to my "favorite lesbians" section on my public profile.
I have yet to create this section, but rest assured, once it's done, she will be given top priority.
Bingo! Coming up on 25 years married to the most beautiful (and intelligent) woman in the world -- but if I ever lost her, that would be it. Much too hazardous...
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