[hocndoc]

I disagree.

Feminism started with the idea that women can become educated, own property, have custody of their own children, and vote.

While men had these powers and women did not, the ones who destroyed their families by promiscuity, violence, and abandonment were men. The good husbands and fathers were and are supportive of their wives and daughters and faithful to their marriages.

The minority of men who abused their power even after women began to be educated, employed, and more independent are the ones who led to no-fault divorce, abortion, and out of wedlock childbirth as unwise women adopted the bad male habits. The abuses - by both men and increasingly by women - resulted in more bad law and social customs - it was probably the custom first, then the law. And so on.

If men had remained faithful to the greatest Commandments, there'd be none of the problems we have today. Instead, some couldn't follow the Golden Rule in their own houses or the public square.

[grey_whiskers]

OK, I was shooting "off the cuff" and speaking of the 60's generation of militant gender feminists and their ilk--prior to that (say the suffrage movement) there were legitimate concerns, as you rightly point out.

OTOH, some of those earlier feminists were strongly pro-life. Not a thing to endear you to the sisterhood of today.

Cheers!