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" When what one thinks becomes what one is, it's human nature to interpret dissenting views as a personal attack."

Oh, my, that describes SO many popular 'movements' so well.

The biggest problem with the feminist movement is that too many of them folded the results of their poor personal life choices into the mix and projected them onto ALL men, thereby creating a situation that totally upended the social conventions without having something steadying to take their place.

The author's mother is the perfect example. She got pregnant at 16, and felt she had to get married. That's all well and good, but then she had four more kids, all the while staying with a man who beat her. Now, I understand that she felt she didn't have any other choice, and she worked hard to get herself free, so she could provide for her kids. Unfortunately she joins up with other women who made poor choices, and/or just got themselves into major snits while attending colleges like Antioch. They all had their heads filled with chip on the shoulder claptrap, and proceed to take their anger and frustration out on everyone else by way of the 'feminist movement'!

She got pregnant at 16, and felt she had to get married. That's all well and good, but then she had four more kids, all the while staying with a man who beat her.

But surely all women were in the same boat as that and surely all of society is to blame and must be changed. And naturally someone so wise and discerning as that is just the person to do the changing.

the results of their poor personal life choices

There's nothing that a lib despises more than having to live with the results of their personal life choices.

Everything "liberal" involves making someone else pay for the results of personal choices.

The biggest problem with the feminist movement is that too many of them folded the results of their poor personal life choices into the mix and projected them onto ALL men, thereby creating a situation that totally upended the social conventions without having something steadying to take their place.

Bears a repeat.