Feminism's Dirtiest Secret {old read}

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | June 9, 2000 | David Horowitz

[tbird5]

The prophetess of women's liberation has been revealed as a liar and spouse abuser. If the personal is political – as feminists have long contended – what are the implications of this for feminism?

Friedan accused her ex-husband Carl Friedan of beating up on her, in her recent memoir Life So Far. The media ran with the story. Now Mr. Friedan has responded with a website, carlfriedan.com, in which he charges that his ex-wife was mentally disturbed and given to fits of violent rage. It was she who abused him, says Mr. Friedan, not the other way around.

The ex-Mrs. Friedan, meanwhile, has softened her charges, telling Good Morning America, "I almost wish I hadn't even written about it, because it's been sensationalized out of context. My husband was no wife-beater, and I was no passive victim of a wife-beater. We fought a lot, and he was bigger than me."

If I am more inclined to believe Mr. Friedan's side of the story, it is only because his ex-wife has a long and well-documented history of lying.

Betty Friedan presented herself in The Feminine Mystique—the 1963 book that launched modern feminism—as a suburban housewife who had never given a thought to "the woman question," until she attended a Smith College reunion which revealed the dissatisfaction of her well-educated female classmates, unable to balance traditional roles with modern careers.

[Fido969]

Horowitz did s great expose on Friedan, and showed how the basic origins of modern feminism were based in lies and fabrications.

[satchmodog9]

So, the husband thinks it is OK to be a turd to the rest of the world, just don't do it at home. Nice attitude, jerkoff.

[originalbuckeye]

I went away to college in the fall of 1969. I was a peripheral feminist as were most girls then. I believed that I should work and have a family. I, for a long time, believed that the Women's Movement was a good thing for women until I realized that they were not actually for women, but only for leftist politics. When I heard Anita Hill, right after the Monica episode was exposed, say 'well, you really have to consider his (Clinton's) voting record' the feminists lost me completely. I'm really glad that women are now able to choose the mommy-track and not feel guilty. I wish it had been different for me.

[R.W.Ratikal]

the Prince Darkness has finally prized the gnarled talons of Betty Frieden from around the necks of women in America. She will be remembered for two major accomplishments.

First, she showed the rest how to become a millionaire by touting a cause.

Second, she freed all men from any responsibility to help support a child they fathered.

[driftless]

I remember reading feminist literature back in the seventies and concluding that many of its practitioners were out and out nutjobs. Their hatred of men stood out clearly. Above everything else these people came off as being extremely angry. The truly funny thing was that after checking their bios, many came from very privileged backgrounds. These were people who were hollering about exploitation from people (men) many of whom had far tougher lives than they had.

I dismissed the feminists even when I was a Dem. I realize that not all feminists are wacky and many have legitimate goals. But the nutjobs in their movement helped create the sorry state of radical leftist p.c. that is rampant today...and destroying the country.

[Coleus]

...but a twenty-five year veteran of professional journalism in the Communist Left, where she had been thoroughly indoctrinated in the politics of "the woman question" and specifically the idea that women were "oppressed."

 

As Horowitz's biography makes clear, Friedan, from her college days and until her mid-thirties, was a Stalinist marxist (or a camp follower thereof), the political intimate of leaders of America's Cold War fifth column, and for a time even the lover of a young communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects with J. Robert Oppenheimer.

 

the war against boys

 

Why Today's Youth Culture Has Gone Insane (long read but well worth it for anyone who's a parent)

Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education

Feminism's Dirty Secret

The Real Goal of Feminism: Transforming Society

The Origins of Political Correctness ( t Is Cultural Marxism)

The Communist Threat

The Russian effort to abolish marriage in 1920

[pabianice]

Let me sum it up. Of my 12 female relatives aged 18 to 40, not one would consider joining NOW. Three of them think NOW is "that gaggle of ugly old communist skanks." One has heard of Freidan.

[lawgirl]

I'm really glad that women are now able to choose the mommy-track and not feel guilty.

I don't think this is actually the case. I would love to stay home and start a family someday (if I ever get the right guy- which is its own a whole other story) and I can't imagine telling a guy my age this (I am 31)- they only seem interested in having someone help them pay the bills and not stay home or raise a family. And that's IF they can commit to getting married. And even if- I would still face a lot of scorn from other educated women if they heard that is what I would want to do. So I don't think it's quite that easy--- only nowadays the pressure comes from other women and the expectations that "liberation" puts on girls these days.

[Fido969]

Wow, you seem like my kind of lady!

Ooops - had a vasectomy. Sorry. Darn.


(I'm out of the gene pool now. Hey - see tagline!)

[lawgirl]

Thanks anyway Fido! LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

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