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I'm a Successful Playwright... but Feminism has Turned me into a Failure
Daily Mail ^ | 10th February 2009 | Zoe Lewis

Posted on 02/09/2009 6:28:04 PM PST by nickcarraway

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Radical Feminism has ruined the lives of many women of my generation (boomers). It is still ruining the lives of Gen-X, Gen-Y, and every other generation of women. It has done tremendous harm to the United States and every other Western Country. The wretched and despicable people behind this (both women and men) never really wanted equal rights for women. They wanted to destroy the societies they lived in. They have succeeded to a large extent. They were/are leftists almost completely. A pox on them all.
21 posted on 02/09/2009 7:50:54 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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....somewhere deep inside lurks a women I cannot control, and she is in the kitchen with a baby on her hip and a ball of dough in her hand, staring me down. She is saying to me: 'This is happiness. You can't deny it, this is what it's all about.' It's an instinct that makes me a woman; an instinct that I can't ignore,.......

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22 posted on 02/09/2009 7:59:08 PM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady of the North")
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To: nickcarraway
"It's about understanding what is important in life, and from what I see and feel deep down, loving relationships and children bring more happiness than work ever can."

That's just heresy to the feminist movement.

23 posted on 02/09/2009 8:07:11 PM PST by SuziQ
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Dear Zoe. Where should I start with such a screwed up mind. It isn’t because you are stronger than men, deary. Maybe you could read a Miss Manners book or something from a charm school. It also sounds like you are a user who wants a man to fulfull more of your own dreams. What do you have to give?


24 posted on 02/09/2009 9:25:31 PM PST by Cowgirl
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To: Right Wing Assault

Sadly, she also looks much older than her age. Meanwhile, my 42 year old wife has been asked several times by strangers if this baby (our fourth) is her first pregnancy.


25 posted on 02/09/2009 11:52:21 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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I don’t get why people on this thread are reading an article where the woman says feminism is a sham that screwed up her life and react to it as if she is saying “Feminism is great, and I don’t need a man!”


26 posted on 02/09/2009 11:55:51 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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> Nothing personal, but, uh, I understand why. You still look like your hippy mother. Get feminine, guy!

What kind of guy wants to shack up with a feminist hootch that can out-drink a rugby team? Particularly one who looks like someone found shipwrecked on a beach?


27 posted on 02/10/2009 1:44:30 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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“I don’t get why people on this thread are reading an article where the woman says feminism is a sham that screwed up her life and react to it as if she is saying “Feminism is great, and I don’t need a man!””

I know. I was torn between, “I told you so,” and Nelson’s “Ha, ha,” and finger point.


28 posted on 02/10/2009 1:57:53 AM PST by dsc (A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.)
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To: nickcarraway

I give this woman credit for candidly admitting that she screwed up. That’s a lot more than most of her peer group ever manage.


29 posted on 02/10/2009 2:06:49 AM PST by TheMole
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> It’s one thing to give up your career and have children before it’s too late with the right man, but it’s another issue altogether if you haven’t yet found that man. Because, as my generation have discovered to their cost, men don’t appear to like strong women very much.

She still doesn’t get it.

I married a very strong woman with red hair. My Dad married one, too. My Grand-dad found and married an extremely strong and fiery woman, also with red heir. And my brother married a powerful German girl with blonde hair an blue eyes and a steely temperment.

Nope, nothing wrong with strong women at all: it is genetically necessary for strong men to have strong women to marry so that they can produce strong offspring. That’s why we do.

Only a strong man should marry a strong woman: a weakling man will be hen-pecked. That is Nature’s way of keeping the Gene Pool neat and tidy.

Frilly women are nice to look at, but if they aren’t strong then only weakling males ought to marry them.

So the author’s problem isn’t that.

IMO at 37 she should easily be able to find a man, so it isn’t her age. So what is it?

1) She looks like a lesbian. She should fix that as a matter of urgent priority.
2) She seems to think she’s entitled to a strong man. As we are in short supply, she may have to settle for hen-pecking a weakling. She might have fun, but he’ll be miserable!

But can’t she have it all? No: that was the first Feminist lie. Sometimes, you can’t even have enough of what you need.


30 posted on 02/10/2009 2:13:43 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Humph. I’m 42, too, and I’m going to have to color my hair as soon as this baby (our 9th) is born, or people will think he’s Anoreth’s!


31 posted on 02/10/2009 5:33:45 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Global leadership means never having to say you're sorry." ~IBD)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

To be fair, everything except her nose could be fixed without surgery.


32 posted on 02/10/2009 5:34:54 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Global leadership means never having to say you're sorry." ~IBD)
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This is something I always consider before bashing feminists: Larry Flynt & Hugh Hefner vote the same way as Gloria Steinem.

I think the lifestyles advocated by Hef & Larry have screwed up as many if nor more people than the ones pushed by the feminists.

33 posted on 02/10/2009 5:43:42 AM PST by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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From the article: ...the strong alpha woman who never questions her entitlement to the same jobs, fun and sexual gratification as men.

Men really aren't "entitled" to these things either. When God is left out of the mix, no one is happy.

34 posted on 02/10/2009 5:44:57 AM PST by jjm2111
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The article suggests she has something of an attitude problem, starting with her describing herself as a “successful playwright” when it looks like she’s had one successful play and a lot of years on the dole.

I’ve never noticed that men don’t like strong, intelligent, educated women. I have noticed that men don’t like obnoxious women who can’t discuss anything but themselves. Just sayin’ ...


35 posted on 02/10/2009 5:56:09 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Global leadership means never having to say you're sorry." ~IBD)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

As a mother myself, I love this picture.


36 posted on 02/10/2009 6:20:02 AM PST by MissNomer (Proud member of FR's "Final 300")
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Well, I’m sure I’ve said this already, but...congratulations!

My wife has some gray hair, too, but I guess people just don’t notice because her face is so young-looking. And I am worried that people will think my lovely daughter is the new baby’s mom. She’s only 12 but she’s very already as tall as her mom and can easily be mistaken for a teenager.


37 posted on 02/10/2009 8:15:07 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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I’m sure I’ve congratulated you, too ... yours is due pretty soon, isn’t it?

Anoreth will be 18 before the baby is born, so at least she’s a legitimate age to have a child.


38 posted on 02/10/2009 8:22:24 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Global leadership means never having to say you're sorry." ~IBD)
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To: Tribune7

Well said.


39 posted on 02/10/2009 8:23:01 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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>>the woman says feminism is a sham that screwed up her life and react to it as if she is saying “Feminism is great, and I don’t need a man!”

I dunno, she might be saying feminism is a sham, but she still clings to it in the article:

“I am extremely capable, I really don’t need a man. Seriously - it scares me how much I don’t need a man. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want one. I am lonely, and terrified of being alone.”


40 posted on 02/10/2009 8:39:16 AM PST by Betis70
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