Feminism's Third Wave

Lewrockwell.com ^ | May 23, 2003 | Angela Fiori

[robowombat]

Read this then read 'America Unmade' in today's 'Newsmax' and tremble for the future of your society and nation.

[ricpic]

I get tired just thinking about "have it all" women; never mind dating them!

[LiteKeeper]

Sociological SITREP

[Maximilian]

This woman really knows how to hit the nail on the head.

[netmilsmom]

I wish every young woman would read this.
Have the babies when you are in your 20s then have the career later on.
I know two young men. One is a friend of my nephew and one is his brother-in-law. Sweet young men that are only meeting shallow women. I wish I was 20 years younger to set them up with nice ladies and I wish the ladies would learn that cash goes but brains are forever. Dummies.

[sarasota]

I read them both. The downward spiral appears to be picking up speed. I *do* tremble for the future.

[Pyro7480]

My great interest is in the churches (Catholic and Evangelical alike) where it's an even sadder story in singles groups, where innocent, bookish, never-married men like my brothers who have been in the church since their teens, are perversely brought together with cynical, used-up, divorce-battered women still looking for either criminals or movie stars.

God forbid! I'm one of those bookish, never-married men (I'm going to turn 23 on Independence Day). I think I have enough sense to not allow that to happen. Still, the fact that this happens scares me. I have met two smart, conservative, Catholic,beautiful, and young women since the year began, but one has a boyfriend and lives out on the Left Coast and the other I just met last week in DC, where I work. Who knows what may happen with her. I leave it in God's hands.

[martin gibson]

A rat is a dog is a pig is a feminist (with profound apologies to rats, dogs and pigs)...

[independentmind]

Good men don't like to admit it – for fear of being pegged as wimpy – but off the record many express deep resentment at having to struggle to build sexual intimacy with women who have been sexually plundered by so many past partners.

I think this is about half-right. Women, in general, are much better at establishing intimacy than men are. Multiple sexual partners destroy the tendency for women to bond emotionally with men.

When women are no longer capable of doing so, men suffer. Most men, though, are unable to determine that intimacy is the missing ingredient in their failed relationships. For anyone who doubts this, I suggest they read the never ending gripes posted by men on this very site.

Virginity-- a subject that even most women will recoil from today--perhaps should be reconsidered not so much in terms of purity as in terms of wholeness.

[independentmind]

I wouldn't go overboard about Fiori. Women that love to criticize other women are not the solution to the problem.

There seems to be a particular type of anti-feminist that enjoys doing just that--probably because she likes the attention from men.

[society-by-contract]

individualist feminism:

http://www.ifeminists.net/index.php

[RipSawyer]

I can't find America Unmade in Newsmax. How do you locate it?

[RipSawyer]

Never mind, I found it, you should have mentioned Diane Alden, she is one of my favorite writers.

[taxed2death]

One word: Globalization.

There are millions of women around the world who never bought into the femi-nazi hype, who can appreciate a hard working, average looking guy for what he is......lotsa women out there who are not trying to run around trying to be a lite version of a man.....not trying to "have it all". We all know, or will learn quickly enough, that no one "has it all". I'm lucky enough to have found a woman who looks, dresses, and acts feminine. She does not see femininity as a weakness, as femi-nazis preach.

....flame on.

[FITZ]

If you're a 35 to 40-year-old corporate spinster, it's time to give up on Brad Pitt, honey. If you want a hubby bad enough, you'll just have to settle for a...(gag!)...average mortal man. Sorry.

It's interesting how many of the corporate spinsters still insist on "marrying up". They can be very feminist, very into equality but still believe only men making more money than they are worth their time.

[Gerish]

Agree, agree, agree! When my mother asked me at the age of 16 what I wanted to be in life, I simply replied, "I want to get married and have children." She never discouraged me from this. I went to secretarial school, got a job and then got married at 23. Went on to have 4 children and still work part-time. No, I don't have the glamourous job with a six-figure salary or live in a huge house with a brand new car in the driveway. But thank God I do have the greatest husband and four beautiful gifts from God that make me the luckiest Mom in the world. No career in the world could top that.

My advice to any young woman - don't wait until your late 30's to suddenly decide that you want a husband and children. Never put a career or "having fun" before this because (at least from my experience as from friends that I know), a man does not want "old baggage."

[Loyalist]

It's interesting how many of the corporate spinsters still insist on "marrying up".

Tell it to my law school class, which is half women. Few of them seem to understand that they're taking themselves out of the marriage market. I have no desire to hitch myself to a competitor, and neither do most men.

[independentmind]

Are you suggesting that women should not attend law school if they have an interest in getting married?

My eperience tells me something different. How many male law students date female law students?

[Taxman]

You both should join the DC Chapter of FRee Republic. You will get lots of support!