The Feminist Movement

Continuing our look into things that have contributed to the fall of America we would be remiss not to mention the feminist movement as playing a significant factor. However, let me add that the feminist movement in America is dead. It's been dead for decades.The organization that "spearheaded"( no Freudian pun intended) this movement was the National Organization of Women(N.O.W.).Fortunately,this group lost total relevance with American women when the leadership was taken over by radical lesbians(see Molly Yard for starters.).Sadly though,the damage was done.N.O.W.,with lots of help from the media,the colleges and universities, changed the way most women perceive themselves and their role in this life.Did something good come out of the feminist movement? I suppose, if you are referring to a change such as equal pay for both sexes.But,the good can never come close to the damage it has done, and is continuing to do to this country.It doesn't require mentioning a long list of things that came out of this movement that were bad. Things like adjusting physical fitness requirements for women in occupations such as firefighting and quotas for how many women you must have in the fire and police departments.This pales when put against the real damage that was done. The worst thing that happened was a way of thinking that was so heavily promoted and eventually bought into. It was the belief that a woman was incomplete if she didn't have her own career. Being a stay at home mother was mocked and criticized endlessly.If you are old enough, you may recall people and the media derisively referring to mothers who didn't have a career as June Cleaver types.June Cleaver was the stay at home mom on the popular television show,Leave it to Beaver. She was ridiculed for always wearing a dress while cleaning and cooking dinner.Can you imagine that? You mean no tattoos,shorts and cleavage? How uncool! The mindset that a woman must have a career,coupled with the rising cost of living,AND,a desire for married couples to want more than what they could afford on one salary,drove most women into the workforce.Also damaging was the belief that women could "have it all",a career and a family.You can, but something always suffers when you spread yourself too thin.With this "have it all" mindset we saw an explosion in the growth of children's gulags,I mean day care centers, which are breeding grounds for acquiring illnesses,abuse from peers and a lack of nurturing for the children.Divorce,abuse and an increase in psychiatric treatment and hospitalizations for children and adolescents are the end results of the you can have a career and family lie that was sold to women.
America,"you've come a long way baby"!