And, yeah. Sooner or later I'm going to get around to doing a lengthy rant on how feminism trapped American women by denigrating homemaking and childrearing (making it so men don't want to be seen dealing with either and so women feel shamed to claim either is important) and forcing women to attempt to prove their worth by male standards out in the career world (because homemakers are lazy or ambitionless) yet pressuring them into marrying and having children (because women who don't do so are just sublimating their drives into their careers and/or are selfish and/or are unnatural/unfeminine/unable to attract a decent man). So women who aren't working two fulltime jobs bringing home a paycheck and raising a family are made to feel they're slacking off or missing out somehow rather than that they're too sane to burn themselves out like that, and women who are stuck with both roles can't devote themselves completely to either and are penalized in the working world for being female, not for being stuck in a bad system. (And I need to do the full rant so that I can just stick it in my memories and link to it when necessary, rather than going off on mini-rants in others' LJs whenever a related topic seems to arise.)
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:06 pm (UTC)And, yeah. Sooner or later I'm going to get around to doing a lengthy rant on how feminism trapped American women by denigrating homemaking and childrearing (making it so men don't want to be seen dealing with either and so women feel shamed to claim either is important) and forcing women to attempt to prove their worth by male standards out in the career world (because homemakers are lazy or ambitionless) yet pressuring them into marrying and having children (because women who don't do so are just sublimating their drives into their careers and/or are selfish and/or are unnatural/unfeminine/unable to attract a decent man). So women who aren't working two fulltime jobs bringing home a paycheck and raising a family are made to feel they're slacking off or missing out somehow rather than that they're too sane to burn themselves out like that, and women who are stuck with both roles can't devote themselves completely to either and are penalized in the working world for being female, not for being stuck in a bad system. (And I need to do the full rant so that I can just stick it in my memories and link to it when necessary, rather than going off on mini-rants in others' LJs whenever a related topic seems to arise.)