(I know it’s a bit long…read it anyway.)
Oh boy…after repeated accusations that I get my anti-feminist ideas from “pre-50’s” literature and Google searches for “feminism is bad”, I decided to do an open-minded search for these new claims of modern feminism. The claims that “old feminism was hostile to men and family, but NEW feminism is all about choice and respect of that choice…that motherhood is a perfectly honorable “choice”, as long as it’s not the only one”. That should soften my ideas a bit, huh?
WRONG!!! My blood was boiling after just a few news stories…and I only had room to post a smidgen of the stuff I found. It’s hard for me to fathom that these conclusions were made by someone who claims to be educated. Now I know what the Bible means about the “wisdom of the world being foolishness”.
Feminism does one thing REALLY well…LIE. And they continue to. Yes, some feminists thought their previous agenda too judgmental, so they have opted to use softer terms like “choice” to make all women feel included. Well in truth, that is not the feminist agenda–never was, never can be. They are still about belittling the family, the role of marriage and motherhood–they hate “choice”, and on the destruction goes. Read carefully and stay tuned to the bottom of the page for the “solution”:
Linda Hirshman asks: “More and more women are leaving the workforce to stay home and raise kids. Has feminism failed?” (If you listen, the question itself reveals the heart of feminism.)
“In interviews, women with enough money to quit work say they are “choosing” to opt out. Their words conceal a crucial reality: the belief that women are responsible for child-rearing and homemaking was largely untouched by decades of workplace feminism.
The family — with its repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks — is a necessary part of life, but it allows fewer opportunities for full human flourishing than public spheres like the market or the government.
Women who want to have sex and children with men as well as good work in interesting jobs where they may occasionally wield real social power need guidance, and they need it early.
Step one is simply to begin talking about flourishing. In so doing, feminism will be returning to its early, judgmental roots. This may anger some, but it should sound the alarm before the next generation winds up in the same situation. Next, feminists will have to start offering young women not choices and not utopian dreams but solutions they can enact on their own. Prying women out of their traditional roles is not going to be easy. It will require rules — rules like those in the widely derided book The Rules, which was never about dating but about behavior modification.
- So the first rule is to use your college education with an eye to career goals.
- If you are good at work you are in a position to address the third undertaking: the reproductive household. The rule here is to avoid taking on more than a fair share of the second shift…When couples marry, the amount of time that a woman spends doing housework increases by approximately 17 percent..to avoid this kind of rut, you can either find a spouse with less social power than you or find one with an ideological commitment to gender equality. Taking the easier path first, marry down. (emphasis mine)..Rhona Mahoney recommended finding a sharing spouse by marrying younger or poorer, or someone in a dependent status, like a starving artist.
- If these prescriptions sound less than family-friendly, here’s the last rule: Have a baby. Just don’t have two (can you hear me going “AGHHHHHH!”)….women who opt out for child-care reasons act only after the second child arrives. A second kid pressures the mother’s organizational skills, doubles the demands for appointments, wildly raises the cost of education and housing, and drives the family to the suburbs. It is true that if you follow this rule, your society will not reproduce itself. (!!! She’s educated, people!)
“Why do we care? We care because what they do is bad for them, and is certainly bad for society.”
“At feminism’s dawning, two theorists compared gender ideology to a caste system. To borrow their insight, these daughters of the upper classes will be bearing most of the burden of the work always associated with the lowest caste: sweeping and cleaning bodily waste.” (My note: There you have it: the feminists summation of raising the next generation–forget life-changing impacts, shaping characters and destinies, building strong minds and lives–just cleaning up bodily waste.)
From America’s Stay-at-Home Feminists, Linda Hirshman
This article even spewed the stupidity that if a mother’s income is only enough to pay for child care, it is “incorrect to say she would be better staying home”. The author said the fair assessment is to combine the total household income, and subtract childcare, leaving the total household profit. There…that should make us all feel better, shouldn’t it? (ditzy voice: “I went to Harvard and I’m very good at math.”) Because the MAIN thing is to stay away from home and the children.
In a nutshell, feminism is nothing more than a ME religion. It dismisses what is best for any person, now or later, besides ME. It even dismisses the reality of a total, societal-self-destruction…as long as I can do what I want to do right now; after all, I’ll be dead when it all hits the fan.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go put my hair out. It may cause me to go into labor.
I had to add this clip of Hirshman for a little comic relief…I think you’ll enjoy it.
