Posted on 02/08/2003 3:35:01 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Last point and then I'm putting the asbestos MOPP suit on, the bane of many folks here is feminism and yet without the feminine movement there would be no conservative females in traditionally male occupations. Chew on that one for awhile.No one else has taken you up on it, so I guess it's up to me.
"Feminism" didn't open the work world for women. Feminism's sole accomplishment has been the masculinization of women. It was inevitible with the pill, abortion, and effective condoms, but those technologies unto themselves would not have freed the female libido from the ovaries. While birth control removes the intended consequence from the sex act, feminism made it political. Birth control was the means of the "sexual revolution," while feminism was its end. All it ended up doing was to create a generation of women who want to act like men.
Reality has interceded, as usual. Women who spend their youth in promiscuity, career and money chasing, approaching the 40 barrier, find themselves at middle age empty and craving to satisfy their bodies' intended purpose, to have children. The fertilization industry is a product of feminism.
Women had no other barrier to the work force than their own ambition. That the feminist movement contributed to the entry of women to the workforce is true does not make it the cause (we may certainly give account to brith control). WWII did more for it than anything else, but the largest reason for women joining the workforce was because they wanted it. It didn't take Friedan & Co. to liberate the world for Linda Chavez. Freidan took advantage of a social change that was already happening for political gain. Chavez employed her skills and intelligence.
As William Howard Taft said in 1909 of women's suffrage,
The truth is I am not in favor of suffrage for women until I can be convinced that all the women desire it. When they desire it I am in favor of giving it to them, and when they desire it they will get it, too.
Valid points. However, in the effort to "level the playing field" we have gone too far (don't get me started on PT standards in the Army). As more women invade - yes, invade - the traditional enclaves of men, they quickly learn that the very qualities that make them women become a superior advantage (go ahead, tell me some crusty, male flag officer or managing director isn't going to be swayed by a perky female over a male everyday - trust me, I've seen it happen). While this advances her career, it destroys the "cause" and morale of the unit.
What sickens me the most about the picture above is how many good men were bypassed to put together this recruitment poster? The other question is, what is the intent of the photo to begin with?
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