Shirley, you must be joking!
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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Perhaps. But if you read Carolyn Graglia's book Domestic Tranquillity, you'll realize that before the advent of feminism there were many successful business and professional women. It can be argued that feminism put up legal barriers against sexual harassment and discrimination, but a just society prohibits those things without requiring also the eradication of rights for men. If you ask older professional women they will tell you that they faced small annoyances but no outright prohibition on their career-seeking behavior, and if their sisters chose to be housewives and mothers, it was because back then most women had the option to be housewives and mothers if they wished. Today, thanks to feminism and its liberal friends, it's much more difficult for a woman to choose those worthy domestic careers.
My maternal grandmother (born 1895) was a bacteriologist at the Medical College of Georgia (Augusta). My paternal grandmother (born 1890) became a day trader on the stock market after she was left a widow with three young children. They were ladies to their fingertips.
They laughed at obstacles, or ignored them and forged ahead. The secret is to be cheerful, persistent, and courteous - ultra-ladylike if you will. Making employers and business prospects feel uncomfortable and guilty because of supposed patriarchal prejudice against women is counterproductive (and it's rude.)
("Feminist Movement? We don't need no steekin' Feminist Movement!")
I LOVE IT!
Hehehehe
Two of my buddies here in CT both got raked over the coals through divorce. Both sucessful businessmen, non drinkers / non drug takers and both broke their backs trying to keep their x-wives happy (keepin up with the jones...dontcha know).
They both did the mail order bride thing. One of them 5 years ago...another one 7 years ago. Both of them (all 4 actually) could not be happier.
I also have several very wealthy customers who've gone that route. They too are very happy. I'm not sure what all this means but in every case that I've come across...all the people are happy in their marriages.
These Brides came from:
Thailand , Ukraine, Dominican Republic and 2 from Philippines. The Thai lady and the 2 from Philli are very well educated....much more so than the average dummy who graduates from a typical North East liberal college.
Maybe there's more to it than meets the eye.
....just my 2 cents...
"Men just don't like women who treat them like sh!t. And I don't blame them."
That bears repeating. Obviously that axe swings both ways too.
:)
I believe no one has ever done LESS for women than feminists.
Sometimes that first paycheck helps in that arena :)
Good luck with him, I'm sure he'll be a fast learner.
Great photos; even gretter quote!
Also, after an 8-hour shift of standing on his feet, he is finally beginning to appreciate how his father feels after a hard day's work. Bliss!
AND...I'm expecting my copy of this book any day now!
And he's learning this at his "tender" age of 17, all 6'7" of him. Bless his heart.
I'm buying this book.
I'm sure you're right.
However, the scariest fight he'd ever seen was in New York City. This was back sometime in the 50s, and he was working in the Bronx. He passed a vacant lot where some girls were having a cat fight and he said it was the most blood thirsty, viceous thing he'd ever seen. These women weren't posturing, they were going for the throat.
His thesis being that men, being the hunter gatherer- caretakers, can almost fight for sport. Whereas, since women are hardwired to be nurturing care givers, it takes extreme circumstances to motivate women into a state of violence--so when they do fight, they go for the kill.
Granted, he's from a different generation and has a lot of disdain (as do I, actually) for the women's movement, but I wonder if there's actually some truth to his observation.
I know from personal experience, I'm a she-wolf when it comes to protecting my little girl (as are most Moms, I think--save for the crazy ones.)
Clearly you have inherited the wisdom and values of your ancestresses.
Shirley, you must be joking!
Very well said!
I agree with your whole post :~D
"I really don't admire much at all the concept that our troops need to have an emotional blackmail held over them in the form of a supposed need not to lose face in front of other men in combat."
That's not holding anything over anyone's head; it's just the way human males are.
"And I have also heard that males in combat can actually be more heroic than usual when there are women on the field whose lives depend on them "
Yeah, heroic enough to get themselves killed and lose the fight, which is one of the reasons Israel quit sending women into combat.
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