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LIFT AND SEPARATE (Why Is Feminism Still So Divisive?)
New Yorker | http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/091116crbo_books_levy | Ariel Levy

Posted on 11/09/2009 11:23:09 AM PST by nickcarraway

LIFT AND SEPARATE (Why Is Feminism Still So Divisive?) (New Yorker can only be linked to)


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: feminism

1 posted on 11/09/2009 11:23:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Because some women really like being mothers and think killing their children would be a bad thing? Just a guess.
2 posted on 11/09/2009 11:25:18 AM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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To: nickcarraway

Because good sense and idiocy are like oil and water: they just don’t mix.


3 posted on 11/09/2009 11:26:05 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ll take a stab...because most feminists (those I’ve met) are fat, ugly, and have unsightly facial hair.


4 posted on 11/09/2009 11:27:33 AM PST by lesko
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To: nickcarraway

Feminism is divisive because it demonizes women who value family and traditional roles, because it is an agent of marxism, and because it seeks to eliminate european-american males.


5 posted on 11/09/2009 11:31:12 AM PST by gorilla_warrior (Metrosexual hairless RINOs for hopey-changey bipartisan-ness)
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6 posted on 11/09/2009 11:33:03 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: nickcarraway

Might as well ask “why is vicious Communist Dialectic still so divisive?”.

It’s divisive because it’s hate on stilts.


7 posted on 11/09/2009 11:38:41 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: nickcarraway
Women and men are biologically, physically and chemically different by God's design. The two will never fully understand each other. And when the two work together only good can come of it. The problem with feminism is that this difference is rarely understood or celebrated.

It is the same with relationships because of these differences: I respect my husband. He cherishes me. As a woman, I can relate to the suffragette movement. The feminist never ever represent me. They anger me mostly. And without them, I still could have become anything I wanted in my life. They call that good parenting! LOL

8 posted on 11/09/2009 11:45:47 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: nickcarraway

The divisiveness started when the new leaders of the feminist movement decided to abandon the principles of Susan B. Anthony and every single one of her peers.

They traded in their preborn children for the keys to the executive washroom. They refuse to admit that abortion has done nothing to advance the rights of women, and in fact has perpetuated many obstacles to equality.

Traditional feminism recognizes that you cannot earn rights by oppressing others.

Learn more at www.feministsforlife.com


9 posted on 11/09/2009 11:48:19 AM PST by CMoran325
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To: nickcarraway

Because the ‘feminist’ movement, ever since it’s spawning from the fetid swamps of other 60’s radical movements, is and always has been about fascist leftism and nothing to do with the promotion of women and true liberty for women and other Americans.


10 posted on 11/09/2009 11:54:36 AM PST by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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“Feminism” today means only one thing...abortion. It is no longer about equal pay or an equal voice. It is about abortion and nothing more. If you are pro-abortion, you are a feminist. If you are pro-life, you are not.

Every other definition of feminism is from another era and does not apply to the term today. That’s why it is so divisive...and always will be, for there will always be women (and men) who are repelled at the thought of hacking apart a living, pre-born child in the name of convenience.


11 posted on 11/09/2009 12:02:07 PM PST by Leonard210 (Tagline? We don't need no stinkin' tagline.)
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To: nickcarraway
A major point the author of this piece fails to grasp...

If it weren't for taxes, the vast majority of married mothers, would not have to work.

Thanks, though, to liberals, it is all but impossible to support a family on one income, even if the man makes a pretty decent living, because half his salary or more goes to a plethora of taxes and fees that simply didn't exist 50 years ago.

Women are more equal, but now they have all the responsibilities of before, plus working 40 hrs/week on top of it. Not exactly progress, is it? Thanks feminists!
12 posted on 11/09/2009 12:22:15 PM PST by chrisser (Tweet not, lest ye a twit be.)
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To: colorado tanker
Women are "wired" (ie, created) that way,

and those who want to "buy the lie" don't want anyone around (paging Sarah Palin) that reminds them that this is what they really want to do, but CAN'T because they'd be socially punished for it.

Lies Women Believe

13 posted on 11/09/2009 12:24:43 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: chrisser

The [traditional] family is the left’s primary target for destruction. Their ideological “father” desires it.

See tagline. See John 8:44.


14 posted on 11/09/2009 12:26:53 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: chrisser

“If it weren’t for taxes, the vast majority of married mothers, would not have to work.”

People do seem to overlook that. Even when they complain that husband and wife both have to work to make ends meet, they seldom seem to make the connection between that and “equal employment opportunities for women.”


15 posted on 11/09/2009 3:12:11 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: chrisser

Inflation plays a big role in that, too.


16 posted on 11/09/2009 3:16:10 PM PST by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t think I have a problem with women staying home if they didn’t stay home and watch Oprah.


17 posted on 11/09/2009 3:21:17 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, for one thing, too many feminists read The New Yorker.


18 posted on 11/09/2009 5:48:07 PM PST by AdaGray (uw)
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To: nickcarraway

Golly, you can hardly tell this was penned by a flaming liberal.


19 posted on 11/09/2009 8:14:22 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (><BCC>NRA)
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