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Feminism's collateral damage is the breakdown of society
Washington Examiner ^ | 10 Dec 2019 | Suzanne Venker

Posted on 12/10/2019 4:21:02 PM PST by Rummyfan

I'm convinced Tucker Carlson is the only television host who understands the fallout of feminism and is willing to discuss it on national TV. During a recent interview with me on his program, Carlson noted the following: “I don't think anything has changed our society more for the worse” than feminism.

Indeed, nothing has.

When I said something similar in 2011, I was called out by NPR's Meghna Chakrabarti in an interview about my book, The Flipside of Feminism. In it, I wrote that feminism is the "single worst thing to happen to women," that it didn't liberate them at all.

On the contrary, feminism has made women's lives (and by extension, men's and children's lives) immeasurably worse. According to a 2009 paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, “As women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy."

When this study was released, countless articles and news reports inquired about the irony of it all. How is it possible that women can be less happy after having been "liberated"?

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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Is is collateral damage? Or was it the original intent?

1 posted on 12/10/2019 4:21:02 PM PST by Rummyfan
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FEMINISM IS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE EVER PERPETRATED ON MANKIND,... EVER.

MARRIAGE, workplace, educational system, courts, sports, entertainment, relationship, SEX, marriage, POLITICS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, MILITARY, blah blah blah.. AND.. BUH-BYE.

2 posted on 12/10/2019 4:24:27 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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What's that little girl saying: "Mommy is gone all day, daddy says he's moving out and my nanny doesn't speak English"

LOSE, LOSE, LOSE.

3 posted on 12/10/2019 4:26:12 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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Well more guys are waking up to reality and opting out of gynosociety. Society will get more men like Tesla, focusing their energies on breakthroughs and achievements.


4 posted on 12/10/2019 4:26:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rummyfan

I love the last sentence of the excerpt.

They are women. Women can always find something to complain about. If there’s nothing to complain about, women will complain there’s nothing to complain about.


5 posted on 12/10/2019 4:29:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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That was always the intention kate millett was a certifiably crazy radical dyke.
Margaret Sanger sought a ‘no more babies’ Policy in the west for a period of 10 years in the aftermath of World War II. Choice was not in her vocabulary she was against it.


6 posted on 12/10/2019 4:29:04 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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“Well more guys are waking up to reality and opting out of gynosociety. Society will get more men like Tesla, focusing their energies on breakthroughs and achievements.”

Perhaps, but doubtful.

Just too many males out there that insist on thinking with their d!ck.


7 posted on 12/10/2019 4:30:47 PM PST by traderrob6
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More, not “many”. Enough. Too many guys like being on the gynoplantation. And, in general, too many people, men and women, believe they can’t live a happy life single. There’s tremendous societal pressure to convince people they need someone else.

As Robin wiliams put it, after being divorce raped by four people all the while dealing with depression, the worst thing in the world isn’t being alone, its being around people and wishing you were alone.


8 posted on 12/10/2019 4:34:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rummyfan

Civilization’s big mistake was allowing non hunters direct access to food.

Being otherwise useful should be rewarded with scraps, not a seat at the dining rock.


9 posted on 12/10/2019 4:35:20 PM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under sixty.)
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YouTube is full of blogs from woman who bought into the lie that women could have it all.

The sacrificed getting married and having children in favor of their career. And for awhile they had it all. There were plenty of men willing to date (and bed) them, until time caught up with them.

Entering their 30s and still unmarried they begin to look for Mr. Right only to discover that Mr. Right is no more real then Santa Claus. There are still a lot of single men out there but the ugly truth is a single man in his 30s, established in his career, is a catch ... for a cute young thing just turning 20.

Women in their 30s (or older) find that few men are interested in them (except for a one night stand).

Woman that gave up on being a wife and a mother for a career are facing years of loneliness.


10 posted on 12/10/2019 4:35:55 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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It was the intention.
Look for a well stocked used book store and dig out books about “finding yourself” written in the sixties. See how many are by young mothers who leave their husbands and children for a voyage of self gratification. Then look how many of those have glorious prefaces by Gloria Steinem and her ilk.

As a kid, I knew a lot of children with divorced parents and a lot of them mirrored these books. It made me sick.


11 posted on 12/10/2019 4:37:31 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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There are still a lot of single men out there but the ugly truth is a single man in his 30s, established in his career, is a catch ... for a cute young thing just turning 20.

Indeed. And the twenty-something doesn't have all the baggage and complications of the older career woman.

12 posted on 12/10/2019 4:41:40 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Yep. Have fun with the cats!!


13 posted on 12/10/2019 4:41:51 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (20 FReepin' years of Freakin' FReeping!!! FReep yeah!)
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Paraphrasing...

And you can have it all...
Your empire of dirt....

14 posted on 12/10/2019 4:42:34 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Sad first person article I read by a woman around 1990. After divorce she tried to raise her little boy in the full feminist style.

“No matter how many times I hid his ball under the toys and dolls in the toy chest he somehow found a way to dig it out and play with it again.”

I felt sorry for that boy and the many others like him.


15 posted on 12/10/2019 4:52:04 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Bttt


16 posted on 12/10/2019 4:58:40 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Well more guys are waking up to reality and opting out of gynosociety. Society will get more men like Tesla, focusing their energies on breakthroughs and achievements.

One of these days Islam is going to figure out how to market itself to emasculated white guys, lost and wandering aimlessly in a feminized society that takes them for granted. "Hey brother. Do you want to be a man again? Do you want to be in charge? Come join us! We don't take sh*t from anyone! There's no #MeToo in our world. Our women do as they're told."

And it's going to sound good! For all its faults, Islam is at least a patriarchy, the standard family unit that has survived tried and true across cultures for millennia.

And when this happens, there will be hell to pay to liberalism.

17 posted on 12/10/2019 4:59:41 PM PST by Drew68
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How is it possible that women can be less happy after having been "liberated"?

Because the one thing they failed to liberate was themselves.

18 posted on 12/10/2019 5:05:44 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: traderrob6
"Just too many males out there that insist on thinking with their d!ck."

If men didn't think with their d!ck, females wouldn't get ANY attention. lol

19 posted on 12/10/2019 5:08:56 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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Females have liberated themselves from men and motherhood for the sake of their careers. Lesbianism on the rise, and that’s just ONE consequence. There are several.


20 posted on 12/10/2019 5:11:43 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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