Apparently not LOL
Posted on 03/15/2011 5:30:35 AM PDT by FreeManDC
American women out-vote, out-spend, and out-live their male counterparts. They enjoy an unrivaled array of lifestyle options.
But the fact remains, females have become a decidedly unhappy lot. As a National Bureau of Economic Research report explains, "As women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy."
How do we come to terms with this modern-day malady that has no name? The Flipside of Feminism, authored by Suzanne Venker and conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, incisively diagnoses the problem, prescribes the common-sense cure, and above all, instills hope.
Think of it as a long-awaited reality check from your older, wiser sister....
The advent of the feminine malaise can be tied to a historically unprecedented gerrymandering of gender roles, with its inevitable biological consequences. As journalist Anne Taylor Fleming once uttered in her maternal cri de coeur:
"I belong to the sisterhood of the infertile. I am a lonesome, babyless baby-boomer now completely consumed by the longing for a baby...I am tempted to roll down the window and shout, 'Hey, hey, Gloria, Germaine, Kate. Tell us, how does it feel to have ended up without babies, children, flesh of your flesh. Was your ideology worth the empty womb?"
Over the past 30 years, American women have been swayed to believe they have been getting the short end of the stick at the hands of their patriarchal tormentors. Feminists "know it's easy to get people to succumb to victimhood," counsel Venker and Schlafly.
The process begins with women's studies courses that parade themselves as "a training course for radical feminists in radical feminism." Women's magazines "are based on telling women their lives are too tough for them to handle and they should feel very sorry for themselves," recounts former Ladies Home Journal editor Myrna Blyth.
The result is a hydra-headed social-political movement rooted in Marxist theory with a decidedly narcissistic twist — feminism is "inextricably linked to the individualist message," reveals Dr. Jean Twenge in Generation Me.
The book's juiciest revelations center around arch-feminist Betty Friedan and her childhood traumas. In Life So Far, Friedan reveals how her mother made her feel "messy, clumsy, inadequate, bad, naughty, ugly." But rather than getting the psychological help she desperately needed, "It was easier for me to start the women's movement than to change my own personal life," Friedan incoherently boasts.
The specter of liberated women blaming men for their personal neuroses would become a leitmotif of American feminism. This pattern would soon evolve into a "full-scale assault on the American male," as Venker and Schlafly put it.
In their chapter on The Expendable Male, the authors document the contemptuousness that defines modern feminism. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd once wrote, "Now that women don't need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is, will we keep you around?" And Jessica Bennett crowed in Newsweek how women will one day "rule the world."
Venker and Schlafly end their adumbration of feminist misandry with this sober warning: "no society can thrive — or survive — when half its members believe they're oppressed and the other half are told there is no reason for them to exist."
For women accustomed to advancing their agenda by reflexively embracing their inner victim, The Flipside of Feminism's prescription begins to resemble a 12-step program:
"Recognizing that feminism failed in its mission, that it is based on faulty assumptions and arguments, and that it drives a wedge between men and women and even among women, is the first step to recovery."
And it's up to sensible women to bring an end to it all:
"If change is going to come, it will have to come from women — they are the ones who changed the nature order of things. Moreover, men aren't the ones who kvetch about their place in the world — not because they have it so great (contrary to feminist dogma), but because it's not in their nature."
For the die-hard ideologues, this may be the hard part:
"We must stop talking about women's rights, women's needs, women's problems, and progress for women. We must stop talking about girl power and female empowerment, and about overturning a patriarchy that doesn't exist. When we frame the debate in feminist lingo, we foster a war between the sexes. It's time to end the war between the sexes."
Over the past 30 years, feminism has sought to expunge from women the primal delights of conjugal partnership, of nurturing motherhood, and of familial constancy. Now, Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly are courageously calling on women to take a stand against feminism, or risk losing the goose that laid the golden egg.
These authors need to read the Bible. Many of their conclusions were already written down 2000+ years ago. God made man and woman, he designed us thus knows our nature and laid down the rules for it. Modernity tries to escape from it only to find spiritual emptiness and social instability.
My wife tells me she doesn’t believe in this Feminist thing because she refuses to be lowered to equality.
In all my life, I have yet to meet one happy left-wing feminist. They are one angry & miserable bunch, all of them.
The honest ones will tell you that abortion has not been the freedom they expected; it just gives miscreant males another “out.” Another way to devalue them. It should shock no thinking person that some of the most vociferous voices in favor of abortion are MEN. Especially those who have a history of disrespecting females (Clinton & Kennedy, for example). This was and is their “Get out of jail free” card.
I’m absolutely convinced that the reason conservative women more attractive than others is because they are not at war with themselves, their gender, and their biology. Palin, Bachmann, Haley, Blackburn, Martinez (and there are others) are comfortable in their own skin.
Liberal women are at war with themselves. And like other veterans of war, it shows up in their looks.
The big difference is that we cherish the real veterans of real war, and love them right back. They are beautiful to me.
Not this bunch of wenches....
Oh God....here it comes....the case for Islamic-style gender fascism.
Um, I figured this out by myself, while watching my mom ‘s generation and tv shows totally ruining the lives of their men and themselves, trying to overturn everything natural about women. I fought back.
The only good thing that came out of feminism was to allow women to work whatever jobs they wanted, and could handle.
The social stuff is pure sh#*.
Especially the “right to choose” myth. Some young women will tell you this is one reason they are liberal. So you ask them, what is this “reproductive freedom” you so wish? They cannot answer. If you show them that all that does is make women more available and less respected by men, they get all confused.
The most bitter women I’ve ever met are the middle aged,LEFTY, baby boomer women. Their radical feminism drove every male away leaving them with an empty life.
These women not only hate men but a very nasty to younger,successful women as well.
Just watch and observe the group of people who slam Sarah Palin the most. It’s almost always bitter old hags.
It is nothing less than Satan at work to destroy the family and the culture that nurtures it.
With no animosity towards women who may choose career advancement over hearth and home, I daresay that hearth and home ROCKS!!
Two of the best books written on the subject of the male role and the female role were written by Elisabeth Elliot.
She is the widow of Jim Elliot, on of the 5 South American Martyrs(January 1956).
To and for women: “Let Me Be a Woman” (Notes on Womanhood for Valerie) Valierie is her only child.
The other book: “The Mark of a Man” (written to and for her nephew Peter Henry deVries)
I’ll be 77 this March 25, These two books are of the highest priority in my library, because my favorites are about living live Christ centered lives and ministry!
Such as: “The Hiding Place” (Corrie Ten Boom)
“Twice Pardoned” (Harold Morris)
“In the Presence of Mine Enemies” (Howard Rutledge)
“Nam Survivor” (Dave Reoaver)
No doubt.
They have sacrificed all the things that make life worth living (a loving spouse, and family) for a political idealogy.
This is why they HATE Sarah Palin and others like her. She has exposed them for the fraud that they are. You CAN make something of yourself, with a supportive spouse, and without Ivy League indoctrination. You CAN have a large, boisterous, and loving family. All without selling out your conservative principles. THAT was the part they didn’t count on, and why they’re so hacked off.
And yes, Peggy Noonan, I’m looking directly at YOU.
Apparently not LOL
Feminism is the biggest lie to be promulgated in the late twentieth century. It’s so chock-full of contradictions and ultimately of benefit to men, sexually I mean, that it must have been dreamed up by a bunch of drunken frat boys.
That wasn't feminism that was technology. The old workplace sex roles made a lot of sense before electric motors and internal combustion engines and when life-expectancy was 40 years.
Workplace sex role changes would have occurred without the whining, bitching and ugliness simply because they made sense.
The real evils are abortion and attempts to destroy marriage and men are just as much at fault here as women.
And saying men are just as much at fault is NOT saying women are not at fault.
Mrs WBill is in the education field (peripherally, she's only teaching one night class while raising the kids. She enjoys it, gets her out of the house, makes a few bucks, keeps her contacts fresh for later, but I digress.....)
Anyhoo, you'd be astonished at the venom she gets from her (uber-liberal) boss, her (liberal) co-workers, her (lib)friends. "When are you going to give up this stupid idea of staying at home, and come back to work full time for me?", her boss says.
Fortunately, my wife has no problem with telling them all to get stuffed. That's one of the myriad reasons that I married her.
I blame guilt and jealousy. Most of Mrs WBill's loudest critics don't have kids, and those that do, stick them in a daycare for 12 hours a day. I can't imagine putting a career over raising children. Dumb.
It’s 3:00 A.M.- do you know which bar Maureen Dowd is getting last call?
“Oh God....here it comes....the case for Islamic-style gender fascism.”
Yes, Western women before the 1960s were wearing burkas and being stoned for leaving home without a male escort.
Your comment would really resonate at DU. Perhaps you should try there.
Feminism was primarily developed by leftist, less than fully masculine men, who knew how to manipulate women, but that is a long story.
“Feminism was primarily developed by leftist, less than fully masculine men, who knew how to manipulate women, but that is a long story.”
Of course you’re right, it’s always men’s fault. (another tenet of radical feminism)
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