5 Ways Feminism Has Ruined America

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It's hard to take you seriously when your post is so riddled with misspellings. It's also laughable that you would state the women's movement somehow makes it necessary for your wife to work. Last time I checked, it was still enough of a free country that you and your wife could work that out for yourselves. Childish to go around blaming others for your choices and your decisions. Be a man. Or maybe you could get your wife to be one for you, lol.

msrowena of SC 1:12PM March 07, 2011

I just realized that I put my name instead of a title for my comment. So here's my title: Amen Sisters!

Terrell Clemmons of IN 7:06PM March 05, 2011

I'm reading this book right now. I love it. EJ, if you're willing to open up your mind a bit, it just might speak something illuminating to you.

Terrell Clemmons of IN 6:29PM March 05, 2011

Having a second income is a real nice asset to the family finances, but it comes at a price. For the lower income families it is not a luxury but a necessity. The pressure of being the sole breadwinner is lifted for the man, or woman, but the choices of how the incomes are spent, OR SAVED, can cause friction and has destroyed many marriages or has broken up many relationships where the issue wasn't a lack of money but how it was to be spent. I know of couples who have an "it's mine" only because I earned it attitude and they are both miserable. Rearing of kids has become more stressful when the kids expect more since there are two incomes and soon learn to manipulate the parents for money to spend ,to gain status among their peers and to show their friends that they are in the HAVES and not the HAVE NOT group of "friends". Other added expenses are two cars, day care, higher tax bracket, higher fuel bills more car insurance, more meals out when one or the other has to work overtime, and less quality time with the family because one or both are to busy to be part of the family gathering. Couples need to weigh the added income against the additional expenses financially and emotionally. I know of a family where the daughter has bonded with the grandmother and hardly talks to the mother. The father has a six digit plus income, as does she, and the child has every toy known to man as a consolation prize for NOT having parents. The parents expect the grandmother to watch the child at family functions because now that they make big money they are elevated above the status of nanny and the child suffers. The grandmother isn't to happy either because she wants to be the Grandmother at extended family gatherings and NOT just the nanny.The parents expect the Grandmother to watch the child while they socialize and send their daughter to the Grandmother/nanny for any needs! The family dynamics change when both go to work and it takes a mature and selfless attitude in all aspects of family matters to make a functional and happy family.

Lee Hansen of MI 8:48AM March 05, 2011

I love how, just like usual, Schlafly has to resort to pulling random 'facts' and 'statistics' out of her a$$, because what she's saying has no basis in actual reality.
In the world the rest of us live in, people have better (and more frequent) sex and are happier when their relationships are more egalitarian - when they share not only housework but all of life's burdens. People are happier when they have their own identity and are respected for who they are.
Go ahead, Phyllis - take us back to a time when women couldn't vote, couldn't do any of the things they actually wanted to do in life, and were considered less than human. Take us back to a time when men everywhere were never allowed to be themselves and had to repress any emotional response to a situation (other than anger), no matter what. A time when children were brutally abused if they did anything that didn't conform to their assigned gender role. Sure sounds nice!

EJ of WA 11:47PM March 04, 2011

...are simpletons clinging to a tired old paradigm.

GIJane of OR 7:34PM March 04, 2011

Yes, I agree that there are more costs than mentioned and Leticia touched on that regarding the housing prices. The simple truth is, that when women started intering the workforce in droves, it reduced the "value" of the American worker and drove down the average incomes offered for positions that women were eligibale for. Men who were heads of households were hurt more and more because it became harder to "provide" for their families and increased the pressure for women remain the stable home provider.
Thank you Women's Movement, for driving down my income to a point where it is almost needed that my wife work for us to provide a suitable standard of living for our children.

Mr. Jones of TX 3:14PM March 04, 2011

If they were really ready to return to pre-feminism they should shut up (Its not their business to write books or be heard) an get in the kitchen and do some cleaning.

Winyan Staz of WA 2:23PM March 04, 2011

I agree with your list, but want to elaborate. By the way, I am a professional teacher and writer who works from home to give my kids my time.
1. women are not only denied the security of marriage, because of easy sex, they are turned into sex objects before marriage and if they are pregnant; guess whose 'fault' it is and who has to undergo an abortion and the decades of physical and emotional turmoil that represents? Original feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were pro-life, they blamed men for forcing women into abortions. Women ahead of their time in many ways.
2. Modern feminism has taken away the appreciation of the job of motherhood, it makes it seem like just anyone can love a child like a mother. NOT SO. It is SO important that in liberal Norway they PAY stay at home moms $400 a child, to save the costs down the road, obesity, tutoring, juvenile hall, jail, etc.
3. Not only do have a penchant for mcmansions and SUV's and vacations our parents never dreamed of thanks to double incomes, but housing prices skyrocked in the 1970's when a woman's income COULD be used for a morgtage qualification, forcing many to work when they would rather stay home.
4. Women have lots to offer society by just being WOMEN, stop trying to be men. Use and appreciate your God-given 'feminine genius'. This was from the encyclical of Pope John Paul II "On the Dignity of Women".

Leticia Velasquez of CT 2:19PM March 04, 2011