All I can is "better have died".
Let me squint and muster up a tear. Here we go, boo friggin hoo.
Never really cared for her myself. Much of what she said applied to very bored upper class elities. She should have had a talk with my mother who had to work and support a family during the "birth" of the woman's movement.
I'm pretty sure my Mom would have given anything to be able to stay at home and be with us kids. She's often said that's the one thing she regrets.
Oh well prayers for her family.
Never again will I hear her hysterical voice complaining how U.S. (read capitalist) society oppresses women.
Btw... she was no regular housewife. She was very much around the world while servants took care of her comfortable concentration camp.
Sad. She started a movement with intelligent thoughts, that went bad, as she herself somewhat acknowledged later on, as the kooks took over. It also reminds me of my age - she was 85!. That is rather annoying.
Good Riddence!
The world has just become a less ugly place.
Her views were offensive, and her work was destructive.
A dishonorable legacy for a life of the same quality.
I thought she was already dead.
Damn, that means the Sunday paper will preempt some potentially interesting article for this witch's obituary. Couldn't she wait another day?
That's Yahoo!News.....Yahoo!
Friedan probably did more damage to women than any in
history.
I think she was a despicably hateful and ugly woman. Her death does not diminish me in the least, so instead of asking for whom the bell tolls...I'll just say good riddiance.
Too bad her message won't die with her.
Hey, who was the "famous feminist" (I like saying that)
who recently recanted the error of her ways?
I thought it was Betty Friedan.
I guess I was wrong.
That's a shame. Was she ever married? Did she have any children? grandchildren? greatgrandchildren???
Friedan managed to pull off one of the classic "cons" in American intellectual life when she posited herself and her feminist claptrap as the work of "just another average housewife in Levittown." In fact, she was a hardcore Stalinist cadre member since the 1930s in NYC, and, as far as I know, never renounced any of her Communist baggage. Ditto for her husband, another Red.