Who women's lib actually liberated Exclusive: Barbara Simpson says females duped into ditching home

WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/22/02 | Barbara Simpson

[weikel]

I hate feminazis as much as anyone but they sure elevated women legally over men. How? No fault divorce and sexual harassment laws. If your a woman with a grudge against a guy just accuse him of "sexual harassment" since sexual harassment is whatever you say it is you can't lose. Want to rob a guy marry him divorce him its "no fault" and you get half his stuff plus child support and alimony and the wife can sit on her duff and watch Oprah the rest of her life. No for any guys who think like me

[weikel]

The "No" at the beginning of the last sentence should have been a "now".

[grammymoon]

I'm 54 yrs old, a child of the 60's and I NEVER bought it.
Although family circumstances made it necessary for us to have an additional income, I would never allow my job to be more important than the family I was working for.
I always had an income, but I worked it out. I worked 10-4, 4 days a week when they were school age (5 daughters) so that I was also able to be a good wife and mother, make terrific meals, be involved with their activities and friends, make our house a home and BE THERE!
My more liberated friends have had much more stress, pressure, guilt and general constant juggeling of their lives. Like spinning your wheels.
When the kids were grown, my husband and I started our own business and I still keep the same hours. .
I chose to marry and raise children, that was and is my primary job.

[syriacus]

Thank you, kattracks.

It's nice to hear this side of the argument. I hope that there is going to be a good discussion of this view on television and radio.

[realpatriot71]

Now they find themselves in careers that are time-consuming, require travel away from home and envelop their lives. In that sense, women turned into what they originally disliked about their men and in the process, made the ugly discovery that a major tradeoff was the signature of their femininity. They gave up or lost the opportunity to be a wife and a mother. Why weren't they smart enough to see that?

Bump for all those women who took the time to be mommies (thanks mom!).

[Illbay]

I'm entitled to criticize females because the last time I checked, I'm one of them.

I've always wondered why, to criticize a woman you must be one, but criticism of men is open to all.

[weikel]

Thats feminist crap. I criticize them a lot and for a while didn't have a girlfriend but am living next year in an apartment with a girl just below Katie Holmes in the looks department who has promised to do the cooking and ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk posted so often by some people here. Good sense of humour too. This is also at an engineering school with few women. Our 1st conversation was criticizing most feminazi women today we got along immediately.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

1,200 high-achieving career women . . . missed life.
One was quoted as saying "I forgot to have a child."

No fault divorce and sexual harassment laws

. . . (and abortion) empower womem to do things they cannot prudently do. Things which preclude their having children, or else make half of their children (the boys) second-class family members.

If women can "have it all" and men can do only what women allow, men ultimately have no responsibility. From there it is but a step to brave female soldiers--and to the child soldiers carrying bombs into undifferentiated crowds of the hated. It is the end of the very idea of a noncombatant--the end of the idea of innocence.

But hey--those "artificial constraints" on what women can do simply must stop . . .

[hopespringseternal]

My wife wanted a career until she got one. Then she was honest enough with herself to realize and 40+ hours a week in an office frankly sucks.

Men put up with it out of a sense of responsibility.

[hopespringseternal]

ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk

There are two scenarios possible here. First neither of you have been around and end up married. In that case, you might as well have gotten married to begin with.

Second, you have been around, or you are going to be. Have fun swapping diseases.

[Under the Radar]

"and ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk"

What a great deal for you! You go, you stud! Of course, she is a fool. And I pity any pre-abortion material that may be created during the short span of your shack-up experience. Sounds like feminism worked out just great for you. You should show some respect and thank the "feminazis" who made your lifestyle possible.

[Cowgirl]

ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk

We didn't say, God did.

[robertpaulsen]

"In that sense, women turned into what they originally disliked about their men...."

Including having affairs of their own, ignoring the house and children, and walking away when they are financially independent. The article conveniently leaves out the wives and mothers who let their careers consume their life and ruin what they already had.

[Aquinasfan]

...ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk posted so often by some people here.

I was smarter than my dad when I was 20 too.

[japaneseghost]

She is absolutely correct.

[BikerNYC]

So, what does she want a woman to do? Work? Not work? Or be more thoughtful with her decisions and understand the consequences of her actions, yet have the freedom to either work or not work as she sees fit?

[Thinkin' Gal]

but am living next year in an apartment with a girl just below Katie Holmes in the looks department who has promised to do the cooking and ain't into the no sex before marriage bunk posted so often by some people here.

Will it make you feel all grown up?

[SevenDaysInMay]

I have never met a "professional" woman, besides an RN or MD who knows that by age 25 or so that female pubic bones' seam grows solidly together, loosing their youthful flexibility, an aid in birthing. An informative book by an RN, So That's What They're For explains breast feeding, the real reason for the pair.

Teaching about the "stale egg syndrome" became very unPC about 30 years ago. A side effect of "sex in the city", many STDs cause sterility in women while only an inconvenience in men.

Most women childless by 35, will remain so, whether clinically barren or unfertilized.

As a bachelor, I am weary of bitter women, angrily blaming men for nature's reality instead of accepting their own choices. The older I get, the more desirable younger women become. Nature ain't fair.

[Lizavetta]

This article is right on target.

As far as I can see, modern feminism has cheapened womanhood and has successfully convinced women that motherhood is a worthless commodity to be fobbed off onto the hired help.