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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.

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To: FamiliarFace

It used to be that way. Not anymore. Unless you’re a member of an insular religious community.


101 posted on 05/20/2024 2:00:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Vigilanteman

MGTOW
Men Going Their Own Way.


102 posted on 05/21/2024 10:44:51 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

That and not every feminist should have a cat. Cats have standards too!


103 posted on 05/21/2024 2:59:54 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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