Posted on 01/13/2006 2:04:44 AM PST by rhema
Some women protest, "I'm a feminist, just not a radical feminist." Kate O'Beirne is impatient with such qualifications. She is not any kind of feminist, and when you finish her sparkling new book "Women Who Make the World Worse," you won't be one either.
Feminism, far from promoting the happiness and well-being of women and society, has instead left great swaths of melancholy in its wake. O'Beirne cites "One large study of well-being data on one hundred thousand Americans and Britons from the early 1970s to the late 1990s found that while American men had grown happier, women's well-being had dramatically fallen during the period . . . women were 20 percent less happy."
The so-called "women's movement" was and is a misnomer. Most women reject the anti-male, anti-family bias of the professional feminists. But a dedicated cohort of humorless, bitter, crusading women mostly from miserable families was able to dictate policy in some of the most important realms of life.
Feminists now claim that they were never against marriage and family. But O'Beirne has kept the quotes in her files. In 1971, Ms. Magazine founder Robin Morgan called marriage "a slavery-like practice," adding that "We cannot destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage." Australian feminist guru Germaine Greer recommended that all women leave their husbands in search of more satisfying "rambling organic structures" (sounds vaguely unhygienic). And Jessie Bernard, a Pennsylvania State University sociologist, asserted that the "destructive nature" of marriage was both figuratively and literally making women sick.
Strangely, while feminists were burning with indignation toward men, they also enthusiastically endorsed promiscuity. O'Beirne quotes Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, who notes that early feminists who sought the vote and other rights "saw that the ready availability of abortion
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I agree,
It used to be marrying up mean money and security.
Now it means someone with rock hard abs who thinks you hung the moon ;)
"You can't buy a person. But you sure can rent one for a while."
A Ukranian, strong as a bull...hmmm...
I like the way you think girlie!
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We are now more frequently raped, pimped, divorced, cheated on, and - if one's dating proclivities run toward Democrats - expected to spring for dinner. But at least no sane man would dare speak the word 'Miss'. Freedom at last! It's not just because bras burned while men fiddled that I hate feminists. The real reason I loathe and detest feminists is that real feminists, the core group, the Great Thinkers of the movement, which I had until now dismissed as the invention of a frat boy on a dare, have been at the forefront of tearing down the very institutions that protect women: monogamy, marriage, chastity, and chivalry. And surveying the wreckage the best they have to offer is 'Call me Ms.'
Caught Kate O'Beirne debating NARAL`s Kate Michelman on MTP recently. Conservative and Brooklynite O'Beirne kicked Michelman's butt on every issue. Michelman look liked shes been dipped in Borax. Crusty *itch.
There is a reason why civilized societies frown on the idea of killing women and children. It is also no accident that Palestinians and muslims specifically target women and children as they view them as the future potential of their enemies.
We should be opposed to women in combat for that very reason. Yes they may be quite capable in combat, but their loss is much greater than that individual.
*snort*
As usual, a lot of things are being lumped together on this thread (and possibly in the book) that should be separated and judged individually.
For example: day care is a good thing if a woman needs to work, not such a great thing if she is just indulging herself, and is also better in small doses when the kids are young. Another example: promiscuity is bad for both sexes, but the attitude that a man can be promiscuous with less opprobrium is not good. Etc.
As long as men are the dominant sex, and they probably always will be, they are going to keep as many good things for themselves as they can--that's just human nature. Publishing, always a haven for capable women, has allowed women to break through the glass ceiling to CEO positions, but now I read of the glass treehouse: the secret men-only group that really makes all the decisions, outside the view or access of the women CEOs. Thus it will always be.
Well said and you are right. I hadn't thought of it quite like that before. But I've always slightly suspected that if I was born 100 years ealier - or any time in history, I still would have accomplished the same things and snagged a sexy guy in my late 30s :)
It's good to be strong willed.
"The common factor with both is that the males (each child has a different father, a total of 4) had their fun and left. It is tragic, that the freedom of feminism, to free women from all sexual constraints, has enslaved them and only freed the males."
I fully agree. Not to mention it makes every male assume all women are whores, so rather than simply let a woman be herself, the men test and test and test the woman to see how much they can get and constantly challenge her values. It also encourages them to go after the decent but vulnerable females and it's up to the females to defend themselves.
"The men are free to do whatever they want."
I rather agree. It encourages men to objectify and hurt women consistently. It also then falls to the woman to defend herself and always be a 'challenge'. Heaven forbid that men should appreciate a loving human being who loves them unconditionally.
ping....
Stupid feminists.
One for the list?
It is rumored she came up with the idea, while her and a male friend(companion) were both playing pianos, and both were on separate pianos, playing the same tune. It occurred to her, that if a sender and receiver could both switch the transmission frequencies AT THE SAME TIME, they could communicate with each other, BUT the enemy would have a VERY hard time, intercepting or jamming the transmissions. Thus, the idea for Spread spectrum, and eventually DSS, was born.
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