Four Ways Feminism Has Hurt Women

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The first was the feminist message to young women to have sex just like men do. There's no reason for young women to lead a different sexual life than men, they were told. Just as men can have sex with any woman solely for the sake of physical pleasure, women ought to be able to enjoy sex with any man just for the fun of it. The notion that the nature of a woman is to hope for at least the possibility of a long-term commitment from a man she sleeps with has been dismissed as sexist nonsense.

Wait...and the option of having fun, guilt-free sex is a LOSS for women? Really? One gets the impression the author has never had any fun guilt-free sex at all. Or had fun and felt guilty for not marrying the guy?

The third sad feminist legacy: So many women – and men – have bought into the notion that women should work outside the home that for the first time in American history, and perhaps world history, vast numbers of children are not primarily raised by their mothers or even by an extended family member. Instead they are raised for a significant part of their childhood by nannies and by workers at day care centers.

And now let's all stand up and repeat in the sing-song voice of the terminally bored: "Being a stay-at-home housewife and a mother has always been an option for the privileged few. Most women had to work for their living although their legal rights to money or goods they've earned has always been deplorable. If their husbands died, many women in the Good Old Days were left poor and destitute; so were their children."

And the fourth awful legacy of feminism has been the de-masculinization of men. For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. That notion – indeed the notion of masculinity itself – is regarded by feminism as the worst of sins: patriarchy.