Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85

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

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The really ugly feminists are the ones who started the proabortion movement and influenced young women to kill their babies in order to have careers..

I personally never knew of any woman who had an abortion for "convenience" or career (and I know many many professional women). I think the younger generation knows quite well to sort out the good from the bad.

The "bill of goods" was also materialism... that somehow the house and the appliances would be enough to make one happy. You are correct. It is all about finding balance in life.

[Dane]

Women were not going to stay barefoot and in the kitchen, Friedan or no Friedan. She just anticipated the changing economics, and the advent of the pill, and gave it meaning. You can't go home to Kansas Dorothy. It isn't there anymore. The thought of strong independent, intellectual, and accomplished women, just drives some males nuts I guess. Not this one. Any other kind bore me

You really shouldn't start your reply out with a way worn out cliche. Oh I forgot you are a lawyer, nevermind.

As for Ms. Freidan's passing, sympathies to her family.

[OldFriend]

Hey, I see we are sharing an opinion!!!

[jdm]

She looks like a young Helen Thomas.

[Spirited]

She harmed as many lives, homes and households as she and her wicked master could have.

Pr 5:22 -"His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins."

[USS Alaska]

And a loud cheer was heard from the survivors.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Today Mzzzzzz. Friedan exchanged NOW for THEN: Touring Hell Eternally Now . A vile woman who stood proudly atop the smoldering ruins of the female culture. Feminist pfffft. I hope she's made Satan's little woman for eternity.

[Stepan12]

Women were not going to stay barefoot and in the kitchen,

I'd rather be pregnant and barefoot at home than down on my knees in the [Clinton] oval office.

Kate O'bierne

[lunarbicep]

February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006

died on her 85^th birthday

[rollo tomasi]

Never knew why this communist wind bag was such a big deal.

Come on now, everybody knew housewives lived in "comfortable concentration camps" before Betty Friedan/Goldstein came along.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for your post. Glad you ignored her, LOL!

And then look what she did:

"In 'The Second Stage' (1981), she argued that feminists must reclaim the family and bring more men into the movement by addressing child care, parental leave, and flexible work schedules."

First you knock women down, make them think they're crazy and unfulfilled for wanting to raise their kids, make men obsolete as husbands and fathers, and then you turn around and tell the FemiNazis to "reclaim the family" that many of them deserted or aborted to "find themselves" and demand all sorts of rights from employers and the few husbands that DID stick it out. What a racket! *Rolleyes*

[Stepan12]

Her married name was Friedman. She and her husband had a mutual hate relationship.

Maybe she was unhappy because she didn't marry her lover, unindicted Communist spy, Ted Hall.

[Torie]

I don't think Monica would be in Friedan's list of most admirable women. :)

[EverOnward]

"Friedan probably did more damage to women than any in history."

No truer words were ever spoken. I know too many women whose lives were damned because they bought into the lies of Friedan's ilk. She was an evil, evil tool in Satan's hands.

[Tall_Texan]

I have less argument with the original feminists than the ones of today. The ones of Friedan's time wanted women to go beyond the traditional roles of mothers, nurses, teachers, etc. It was a too-narrow scope for some women. I understand that and have met some women who would have wasted their talents trying to be what women were expected to be in the 1950s. However, the modern feminist is basically a hypocrite who wants all the advantages of womanhood when it is convenient to be women and all the advantages of manhood when it is convenient to be men. And their normal M.O. is to attack and belittle men rather than attempt to improve women by producing more complete, competent ladies instead of more stupid and subservient men.

[nutmeg]

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[Stepan12]

To most of the posters here, SHAME ON YOU! What sort of a person is happy when someone dies? Oh, I know! You must be those Taliban Christians!

My dear fellow.... I'm not Christian at all; however, I support family friend Don Feder's attempts to stop the defamation of Christians.

Also, I rechecked about Betty Friedan's commie lover (he was an assistant physicist to the Soviet sympathizer, Robert Oppenheimer) and the name is not given; ergo, I do not know if it was Ted Hall or not -- my apologies!

[Noumenon]

"That woman did a lot of damage."

True enough. There's a world of broken lives behind that statement.

May she receive the judgement that she so richly deserves.

I'll shed not a tear.