her mother must be SOOO proud... or not.
Posted on 06/20/2006 3:34:11 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Linda Hirshman, a feminist US writer on cultural issues, has told the world why she thinks staying at home with the children is an occupation “not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings.” She complains at length that the feminist movement, while making some gains in public life through legal activism, has largely failed in the one area where it counts most: the family.
She upbraids women who stay at home for failing the feminist agenda, saying, “They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings.”
Writing in the November 2005 edition of the American Prospect, Hirshman admitted that the real intention of the feminist movement was not “equality”, but to destroy what she calls “the unreconstructed family” of a husband and wife rearing children. She writes that the goal was to see as many women as possible abandoning family life for high-level professions and politics.
Hirshman a committed radical, was a member in the 1970s of the feminist lobby, the National Organization for Women (NOW), a donor to the pro-abortion political organization, EMILY’s List, and a professor of women’s studies.
But, she complains, the movement has “stalled”; while the “public world has changed…private lives have hardly budged.” Childrearing is still seen by both men and women to be the natural purview of women. She writes of her “shock” to discover that among those professional women whom she called the “logical heirs of feminism”, large numbers were leaving their careers to opt for childrearing.
“Marriage is essentially unchanged,” she laments. “The real glass ceiling is at home…Looking back, it seems obvious that the unreconstructed family was destined to re-emerge after the passage of feminism’s storm of social change.”
She writes, “this represents not a loss of present value but a loss of hope for the future -- a loss of hope that the role of women in society will continue to increase.”
Some of the women she interviewed confirmed her worst fears: they liked being mothers. One declined to be interviewed because she could not leave her activities with her daughters: “We’re all in here making fresh apple pie,” she said.
Another, an “an Ivy Leaguer with a master’s degree” described her at-home activities: “I take my [3-year-old] daughter to all the major museums. We go to little movement classes.”
The article ignited a blaze of online outrage from feminists and traditionalists alike. Bloggers and editorials in print and online editions of a number of magazines have run comments blasting Hirshman.
In an op-ed at the online edition of the political magazine, the Huffington Post, Ann Coulter wrote that Hirshman and those who think like her, are “expressing an intolerant world view that women who don't work are losers.”
“Hirshman isn't just expressing an opinion about what she thinks is best, she is saying that any woman who makes a choice different from what she espouses is unequivocally ‘wrong.’”
Coulter writes that feminism is losing its sway in public because it focuses on “problems that hardly exist…while spending precious little energy on issues that indisputably have a negative impact on women: pornography, sex trafficking.”
“If [feminists] spent a fraction of the time on these issues that they spend trying to get women to get their men to vacuum the living room, the world would be a better place.”
And mothers all over the world let out a collective yawn.
They do. Check out the book, "Architects of the Culture of Death." Leading feminist 'intellectuals' want men and women to share gestation equally (supposedly a future technological possibility). And then children would be raised by the government.
I made the same choice, but I am not an angry, bitter bitch.
"Feminist Says Child Rearing not Worthy of Time and Talents of Intelligent Humans."
Try that for a generation and see what happens.
Pox>Morality does not arise from religion, but from within, IMO.
Well, if I recall my Sunday School and Bible correctly, it seems this is what Jesus held, too...there were obviously moral non-believers in his time, just as now. The fact that they're all to be cast into hell doesn't mean they are amoral or psychopathic...in fact, God seems quite willing to cast very decent people into hell, if they are unbelievers. Hell is separation from God, no?
Methinks you need to get out more.
I sure hope she does not have any children. She does not deserve them.
More likely her mother was a miserable stay-at-home mother who longed for big-time career and blamed all her misery on not having one. Little Linda (not being very bright) extrapolated from this that ALL women who stayed home to raise their children would be miserable, and so they should all go out and have careers with no breaks at all for child-rearing, and then they'd all be happier like her mother swore she would have been if only she hadn't been trapped at home with little Linda. And frankly, little Linda may have been such an inherently revolting creature from the get-go, that it's possible her mother's misery was actually caused by being cooped up with little Linda.
Please tell me Linda Hirshman had no children of her own.
She forgot to add, the eradication of the white male....
That's HER version of the "real intention of the feminist movement". Consider the source . . .
Sounds like a co-worker of mine. He doesn't want to have anything to do with his parents, but then again, they didn't want to have anything to do with him.
Probably, she wants children raised by the state so that they can be inculcated correctly and not with retro ideas like religion.
"Here is a little something you must have missed in Rhetoric 101: When saying something deliberately outrageous, it needs to be redeemed by some kernel of truth"
Chill, it was funny, and I knew he didn't mean it. You need a thicker skin
Most of the advanced species nurture their offspring. Feminism must be a regression.
She might be right about not being honored (occasionally), but dead wrong about the rest. Raising a kid to adulthood is one of the most challenging tasks I face. Next to that, designing an online system is trivial
her mother must be SOOO proud... or not.
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