Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 02/04/2006

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

LOLOL!! Some of you FReepers should do stand-up. I can't wait to read the responses when Ted Kennedy kicks the bucket.

[demkicker]

Thanks, I can't wait to feel honored in responding when Ted Kennedy kicks the bucket. (Ssshhh! just thinking about responding to Ted's bucket kicking has me too excited to sleep)

[Theodore R.]

Wasn't she a member of the Socialist Party at the time of the publication of Feminine Mystique? I think that her book was a kind of middle class clarion call for socialism, like The Communist Manifesto was for the oppressed workers of the world.

[Theodore R.]

Riverside Chapel isn't Jewish, is it?

[Theodore R.]

My question was answered in Post 150. Thanks.

[Theodore R.]

Friedan just didn't believe in Satan, I would imagine. She saw "good" as "evil" and "evil" as "good," like so many today.

[Fido969]

Greer:

"I couldn't believe that Betty Friedan said Clinton hasn't done anything wrong. Here he is fucking the faces of little girls and she says she doesn't care! She says Clinton's good on women's issues. Like access to abortion? Gee, thanks, that's all we ever wanted, to be scraped out."

[Fido969]

You can send in your tribute here:

http://www.now.org/history/friedan-tribute.html

[rollo tomasi]

Dang, I felt let down True Christian did not quote me over at DUmmyville. Must try harder next time.

[rollo tomasi]

An intellectual is a person who compares a Holocaust victim to a housewife. Give me a 'bleeping' break.

[Palladin]

You are absolutely right that raising children is the greatest and best of life's work. But children grow up. And women live to be 85.

What are they supposed to do for the rest of their life?

[LibKill]

I try as hard as I can not to speak ill of the dead.

That said, I cannot find a single good word to speak of her.

[rollo tomasi]

By the way, do some research on the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. Betty work as a journalist/propagandist for that "freedom loving" organization.

[rcocean]

Another rich commie bites the dust.

Goodbye, Betty you had a good life.

We won't have to see your ugly mug anymore.

Has the NYT published their usual "she was the greatest women who ever lived" Obit yet?

[MoochPooch]

While not "glad" Friedan is gone, I am not "sad," either. She left a legacy that has screwed up so many women.

In fairness, the "women's movement" had healthy beginnings. There were injustices to women, and many intellectual women had trouble adjusting to traditional roles & expectations. Thanks to feminism, these women could find other avenues of expression, creatively & professionally. Some women really are happier being in careers than maternity outfits.

Unfortunately, the story of the feminist movement became the tail wagging the dog. As Friedan herself had said, the kooks took over. These women, who were a minority comprised of lesbians & misfits, thought they could represent all women. And they inculcated many with the vilest ideas.

Maybe had Friedan not been so roaring secular & leftwing, she would have appreciated the traditional woman's role more. Maybe now, wherever she is, she has seen the light.

[detsaoT]

[Hank Rearden]

She looks like a young Helen Thomas.

Can't be. No way.
That's an ugly bald New York man with a wig.

[Orlando]

She leave behind hatred. Check-out some quotes from her seeds(Ex-Minister,Professors,Lawyers,Gov't Officals, and other professionals.

http://www.standyourground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8208

[Orlando]

http://standyourground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8208

[Hank Rearden]

How odd to die on one's birthday.

The odds are pretty low. What's really amazing, though, is how many people die less than 6 months from their birthday.