As member Judith Ann Campbell noted in a previous thread:
“I blame feminism. Any movement which wants us to turn our children over to other people to be raised is, at best, highly suspect.”
She’s right to be incensed for more reasons than that. Feminism has become the new affirmative action and compromises any real achievements women have made in the workplace and puts an asterisk next to a female promotion. Thomas Sowell made similar mention of the bias affirmative action placed upon his kids when they were admitted to Ivy League schools. (Yeah, right… Sowell’s kids couldn’t have possibly had the IQ to get into Yale.)
This is what makes it particularly trying for me:
The original movement supported by Betty Friedan and the young Gloria Steinem accomplished many good things; most importantly, they changed the human perception of a woman’s capability outside the home. The two of them did a lot of good work in the 60s and 70s and by the time I hit the workplace in the mid 80s it didn’t even occur to me that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do. I enjoyed great opportunities as a young woman and most importantly, they were taken for granted!
My point is that NOW and the NAACP were too successful and members were left without jobs. See the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Angela Davis, Al Sharpton, etc. who promoted acrimony more than progress to give themselves something to do. I resent them because my life in the corporate and personal world was comfortable and non-combative.
Now men are angry and resentful and overly cautious in their dealings with female peers. There are barriers between both the sexes and races that did not exist before. I feel for the Millennials because they have fully endorsed this agenda and it will do nothing but hurt them.
On a brighter note, the pride of my life and namesake- my niece- landed the Sony account at Chiat Day because she is bright but is also the only 24 yr old in America who speaks fluent Japanese.
Note to Feminazis: Leave us alone.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Amen! Thank you so much for this, Liz 🙂
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“Now men are angry and resentful and overly cautious in their dealings with female peers.”
Men aren’t the only ones. I am also resentful and overly cautious in my dealings with my female peers, Simonettes excepted, of course 🙂
It has gotten to the point where I feel that I need to know a woman’s position on feminism before I attempt to be friends with her. I never felt this way until recently: I have always hated feminism, but it never affected whom I was friends with, until I started to realize that my feminist friends expected far more from friendship than I could give.I like to think myself as a good and loyal friend, but the feminists I attempted to be friends with were just asking for too much: one of them wanted us to get matching tattoos. She said that it was her purpose in life to empower women, but she tried to undermine my confidence at every turn: she didn’t want me to become independent, she just wanted me to be dependent on her, instead of on a man. Another feminist I tried to be friends with became angry when I was also friends with another women other than her. They were both women I grew up with, I love both of them dearly, but they are just too crazy. Men don’t want to deal with them, and I don’t want to deal with them either.
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“She said that it was her purpose in life to empower women…”
That’s the most discriminatory comment one could make about any demographic. Who needs this person to empower women? We’re not victims!!
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I know! Her attitude was so condescending, omg, I never knew such condescension was possible. Our families are old friends, our grandparents knew each other, so I tried to overlook it for a long time, but it got to the point where I just couldn’t overlook it anymore, and the crazy just kept getting crazier. I am sad about it, but I really dont think I had another choice.
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Welcome to my world.
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Congratulations to your niece – and to you, Liz, for the achievement! As to Friedan, Steinem, et al, the Jeannie wasn’t ever gonna settle for “equal pay for equal work” and get back in the bottle, was she? Where did they *think* all that ‘battle of the sexes’ talk would lead, anyway?
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Unfortunately “equal pay for equal work” has become a misnomer in the corporate world. Time is money and the Big Dogs are expected to work 70 hour weeks. Women often can’t do that because they choose to raise a family and of course that is a good thing but they shouldn’t expect to be paid the same for a 40 hour work week.
My favorite example is Carly Fiorina who upon being promoted to CEO of Hewlett-Packard made a deal with her husband that he would have to quit his equally lucrative job to stay home with the kids. It was her turn to shine in the corporate world but she and her husband made it clear the kids wouldn’t suffer. I loved this scenario primarily because I think it would have been fun to be raised by my father!
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Absolutely so, Liz!
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Okay here’s what kills me: when my daughter hit middle school, we parents were told: they’re having sex, there’s nothing you can do about it, just get your boy the condoms . Then, the kids hit 18, the age of consent! and suddenly the boys are all rapists and the girls, who supposedly have been choosing who to fuck or blow since they were 10, were innocent victims who couldn’t really even make up their minds whether or not they wanted to have sex?
Which is another way of saying the #metoo movement infantilizes women. They are presumed incapable of consent.
But OH MY GOD: before I lost all my college friends, I had a conversation with one of them who was agonizing about whether she herself had freely consented,all those times she screwed, back in the dorm. “Was it really voluntary, did I really WANT to do it?”
Um, YEAH you did! I was there; let me introduce you to your 19 year old self!
Then she started saying , well, maybe Bryn Mawr women could protect themselves, make up our own minds, but what about Other Ranks?
This is not only sexist but classist, the idea that working-class women are stupider than we are.
Yes,we’ve ALL, on occasion, experienced good ol’ fashioned sexism, sometimes even outright hostility to us just because we are female. But SO WHAT? as Liz is pointing out. Any actual discrimination on the basis of sex has been illegal for what, 50 years now. American women cannot, as a matter of law, be barred from any field of endeavor they choose. That is as it should be, and that is more than enough. Grow the fuck UP!
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“But OH MY GOD: before I lost all my college friends, I had a conversation with one of them who was agonizing about whether she herself had freely consented,all those times she screwed, back in the dorm. “Was it really voluntary, did I really WANT to do it?”
Um, YEAH you did! I was there; let me introduce you to your 19 year old self!”
I shouldn’t laugh but cracked up anyway at your response! Remember that nut case at Columbia who walked around campus with a mattress on her head? Her “hook-up” of many months moved on to greener pastures and somehow he became a rapist. Fortunately, the university dismissed her case.
Next thing I see that student had been invited to the SOTU by NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand! Go figure.
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