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I'm single, childless and alone. Feminism has failed me and my generation, writes PETRONELLA WYATT
Daily Mail ^ | 05 19 2024 | Petronella Wyatt

Posted on 05/20/2024 7:02:00 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Every Monday I meet with a group of female friends in a London restaurant. We sit at a table near the window and discuss our lives.

We have many things in common. We are all in our mid-50s and highly educated career women. But there is a vacuum in our lives. We are all single and childless.

I increasingly feel, as do many of my intimates, that feminism has failed our generation. I grew up with its beliefs. No, strike that. I was force-fed them.

By the age of 13, Christmas presents from my Women's Lib aunt were books by Gloria Steinem and Simone de Beauvoir, considered the mother of modern feminism. (My aunt was one of those militants who had famously disrupted the 1970 Miss World contest).

My peers and I watched Mary Poppins, idolising the determinedly single nanny (never noticing the occasional sadness behind her eyes), and sympathising with suffragette Mrs Banks, while wondering why she didn't leave her dullard of a husband.

SNIP

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KEYWORDS: childless; feminism; harrisonbutker; petronellawyatt
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1 posted on 05/20/2024 7:02:00 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Why doesn’t she get a cat?


2 posted on 05/20/2024 7:05:49 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The article doesn’t mention that the author had a multi year affair with Boris Johnson.


3 posted on 05/20/2024 7:05:49 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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4 posted on 05/20/2024 7:05:52 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Why aren't eleven and twelve pronounced like one teen and two teen?)
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To: JSM_Liberty

She wrote her bed, no question.
The modern woman is taught to value attention from powerful men, not their true inner desire for family.


5 posted on 05/20/2024 7:07:28 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Feminism is the denial of human nature. All those who practice it will not be in conformity with human nature. No one can be happy when acting contrary to human nature.


6 posted on 05/20/2024 7:08:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: yesthatjallen

That sounds like the result of dumbass thinking.


7 posted on 05/20/2024 7:08:12 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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I'm glad I don't know and interact with this person.

"I really DGAF" would be my natural response in most conversations.

Crimea River. #WINNING. :-O

8 posted on 05/20/2024 7:08:28 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why does her name make me think of mosquito candles?


9 posted on 05/20/2024 7:09:09 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: yesthatjallen

To be clear, feminists didn’t fail women. The feminists got what they wanted, which was more women as lonely as they.


10 posted on 05/20/2024 7:09:11 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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11 posted on 05/20/2024 7:09:12 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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Harrison Butker, you’re wanted on the phone...


12 posted on 05/20/2024 7:09:41 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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She’s a freaking socialite, isn’t she? She’s selfish to her core. I don’t think she ever wanted to be married to anyone. It would mean the focus wasn’t on her for half a second, and that would just be too long for her to endure.


13 posted on 05/20/2024 7:09:49 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: yesthatjallen

And this is why speeches by folks like Harrison Butker are so necessary


14 posted on 05/20/2024 7:09:53 AM PDT by MarDav
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And as we saw the Harrison Butker graduation speech, liberals will have a meltdown, if anyone would suggest that the women students will find gratification in their futures as wives and mothers. Any suggestion that women will be wives and mothers someday certainly triggers an extreme reaction doesn’t it?

We were supposed to tell young girls they can grow up to be astronauts and all of that, but no discussion is permitted about marriage and family in their futures.


15 posted on 05/20/2024 7:11:21 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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...&, throughout all my rebellious years, not ONCE did I question...ANYTHING....

Box wine, bon-bons & kitties galore w/ no sh!ts given here.


16 posted on 05/20/2024 7:14:21 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: yesthatjallen

There is a lot of money to be made opening up Cat Farms...


17 posted on 05/20/2024 7:14:31 AM PDT by eyeamok
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18 posted on 05/20/2024 7:15:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

You traded in God’s land for mankind for a far inferior woman-created plan to usurp God’s plan, and it failed miserably. We could have told you, and infsct tried to tell you that it would fail, but you didn’t want to listen

Choice have consequences-


19 posted on 05/20/2024 7:17:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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“Feminism has failed me and my generation, writes PETRONELLA WYATT..”

No, Citronella, YOU failed.


20 posted on 05/20/2024 7:17:31 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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