I am no feminazi. However, my dad taught me survival skills. No, I'm not talking "in the desert/wilderness/etc.". I'm talking real-life. I had a hubby, I stayed home with my girls, and he left us. However, I have multiple college degrees (got them first, thank God) and had to fight to stay home with my children when I was married. But my dad's skills have come in better stead for me than my degrees. Ok...let's say EQUAL stead. I can't find a man to change my tire, fix my light switch, fix my leaking water line, change the oil, clear a stopped drain, wire in a new receiver for my garage door, etc...etc... I have to do it. And I have to work and had to work. I don't care if you call that equal or not. I don't care if you call it "liberated". I call it desperation and necessity. THere aren't many good men anymore for conservative women.
My girls are now in college and grad school. They are self-sufficient, wise, thrifty, hard-working women. They get done what they need to get done. They are looking for wise, conservative men to be a part of their lives, but they aren't willing to settle for second-best. And they are having a hard time finding any. So when one talks about "equality" and "opportunity" , one needs to see try to fill the others' shoes for a minute. Sometimes it's just basic survival, and there isn't an "equality" or "opportunity" involved.
And Danae, I blame the men for what has happened to the children as much as I do the women. I don't care what anyone says, they need to grab themselves up by the bootstraps and be men. We tell the black generations now the same thing. We need to practice what we preach. I know I'm preaching to the choir, here, but it galls me when women are blamed for the feminazi movement. Men should have grown some cajones. Period. And we need to quit assuming all women get married and have babies. They don't. They never have.
Oddly, I am, and always have been, in the public a lot. Even in MA, I haven't seen a "feminazi" for 25 years. I avoid Cambridge and Harvard Square, but no other places.