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Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85
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| 02/04/2006
Posted on 02/04/2006 1:10:18 PM PST by GeneD
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To: Torie
Has a woman, accomplished or otheriwse...lol... snagged you yet?
no reply necessary...just having fun with you
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posted on
02/04/2006 3:58:43 PM PST
by
onyx
To: Interesting Times
I read the article. I still don't see the nexus between Friedan's feminist writings and Marxism, and none are elucidated in the hit piece you linked.
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posted on
02/04/2006 3:59:20 PM PST
by
Torie
To: All
Her book made a list of the 100 most influential books of all time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179639/posts?page=10#10
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posted on
02/04/2006 3:59:48 PM PST
by
Borges
To: onyx
Someday. There is still time, there is always time. It is a Boomer thing. It is still a goal.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:01:36 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Palladin
It's all about finding balance in life. After all, we cannot encourage our daughters to go onto higher ed. and get advanced degrees, and then expect them to sit home and watch soap operas.Follow me on this: they got to live a life of leisure and they WERE COMPLAINING?!?!?!
You know what? Give me the box of bon-bons and the daytime trash TV because I will take it. Let the wretched "unfulfilled" harridans work for a living, then.
To: Bernard Marx
"Now, in middle age, my daughters realize all they ever really wanted out of life were good marriages, children and the kind of settled situations they're now finding -- after years of brainwashing to pursue "careers," abortions and the disillusionment of trying to 'have it all'."Gotta tell ya Bernie I understood this about myself at 18. And I well understand because of the uniqueness of my own personal situation, how difficult it would be to have it all. For all kinds of practical reasons (such as possible premature death of a spouse for one) women should be educated and trained to support themselves.
I abhor the Betty Friedan's of the world. They along with the sexual revolution, are the reason by the time I came of age, too many of the men I dated were corrupted. They pursued sex but were not interested in marriage. Women to them were "things."
Many men also pushed for feminism because it meant they could abdicate sexual and marital responsibility, and thus the male of the species also deserve the blame.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:09:05 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The first amendment does NOT protect vulgar and obscene speech.)
To: Torie
By the way, I said "some" males. Lawyers almost never use the word "all." Maybe others didn't notice that you totally ignored the substance of my post and jumped immediately to lawyerly language parsing. I did. Life is far too short for such shallowness.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:11:14 PM PST
by
Bernard Marx
(Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
To: GeneD
God rest her soul. He is the only one who can.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:11:21 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: Bernard Marx
I absorbed your anecdotal story, and reminded you about what I said. One size does not fit "all." That is a rather continual theme of mine.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:15:48 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Bernard Marx
I am still waiting for you to respond to what you still agree with me on, by the way. :)
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:17:06 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Torie
"Women were not going to stay barefoot and in the kitchen, Friedan or no Friedan."Changes in technology in and of themselves, would have lead more women into the workplace, without women like Betty Friedan AND society could have been spared all the bitterness and confusion.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:20:50 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The first amendment does NOT protect vulgar and obscene speech.)
To: Palladin
"It's all about finding balance in life."I always thought Margaret Thatcher played it exactly right.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:22:40 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The first amendment does NOT protect vulgar and obscene speech.)
To: indcons; condi2008; All
The troll revealed its identity in
this DU thread (Warning: rabid moonbats, proceed with caution)
To: TAdams8591
Maybe, but when roles change, folks want some superstructure to it, however ersatz. In time, it all settles down, experience trumps ideology, and the bs all fades away. I am an optimist. But I note, that few are interested anymore in radical feminism, and equal pay for male and female jobs based on non market criteria (that distinction is rapidly losing traction too, and soon it will be the male jobs that are lower paying), and other such dead end nonesense.
The gender issue of the day is just why males are failing in school, and failing to go to college, and losing interest in achievement, as a generalization. THAT issue has really interred feminism as of any interest. It is just so yesterday.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:26:57 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Lancey Howard
I saw Friedan speak when I was in college (circa 1975) and she was actually a very upbeat, humorous, and interesting speaker - - nothing bitter or especially kooky that I can recall, at least compared with the lesbian scum that runs the remnants of the "women's movement" today.They thought they were wll on their way to winning the revolution then. The '70s was a giddy time for her ilk. The ones today are wondering what ever happened to their revolution.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:29:32 PM PST
by
Ghengis
(Alexander was a wuss!)
To: GeneD
Boomp! Boomp! Boomp! Another one bites the dust!
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:29:52 PM PST
by
reg45
To: Valpal1
The idea that women who stay home with their children are "wasting" their education is one of feminisms greatest and dirtiest lies. Bingo.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:30:12 PM PST
by
TEEHEE
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Her sentence, for eternity, is to be tormented by the souls of millions of aborted babies.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:31:49 PM PST
by
reg45
To: Borges
Didn't the Man-Hating aspects of Feminism come later though with Gloria Steinam and her ilk? Speaking from personal experience, man-hating was implicit in the movement. Whipping up womens' resentment with their lives tranlated immediately into a perception of male 'oppression,' true or not. Certainly, some men were guilty of that but all mass movements paint with a broad brush. Friedan established N.O.W. and it was just as man-hating in the beginning as now, just less open about it. As a Communist, Friedan had as one of her major goals the infliction of maximum damage upon the nuclear American family.
To interpret my comments as blaming Friedan alone for all the problems between men and women over the past 45 years would be wrong. Many trends and people came together in a decade or two to cause the paradigm-shift. The Pill, relaxed social mores after WWII, greater international sophistication and interaction, such shams as the Kinsey Report, the lessening of religious influence -- all these things and more were in play.
The sad part is that women of my ex's generation were among the first in U.S. history to be mostly college-educated. I strongly believe matters would have sorted themselves out much more positively and with much greater civility without firebrands like Friedan.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:33:50 PM PST
by
Bernard Marx
(Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
To: Angus MacGregor
AMEN.
30-40 Million+ of babies
,and 10+ Million males, and other victims that resulted from those anti-families programs,etc...
1966...AFDC started, and the church of Satan, and N.O.W...
turn the 9 around, and we got 666.
Today is a good day, because one of Satan's #1 was put back in Hell.
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posted on
02/04/2006 4:34:40 PM PST
by
Orlando
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