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

See - I don't think feminism is the where we need to look to pinpoint the denigration of homemaking and childrearing. That was going on loooong before feminism became an active movement.

I think it is important to stress that taking care of children is NOT "woman's work" - that it is "human's work" but again - I don't think feminism is to blame for the absolute cultural contempt in this country for *anything* perceived as being feminine.

Being a Girl= bad or an insult. Being a Boy = good for all concerned. So girls can now play with trucks and race cars and wear blue (and yay! this is wonderful and I *wish* it had been around more when I was a kid cause I loved my brother's racing cars) but let a little boy want a Barbie Doll or like the color pink...and all hell breaks loose.

The quickest way for a female to be overlooked or not taken seriously is to wear a lot of pink. Ask Lana Lang about that.

I don't think feminism created ANY of these attitudes, it just makes it all more apparent that they exist.