Killarney,
Huh? The divorce rate before 1976 was 16%, now it's 45% and the number of women who live alone or as life long spinsters is somewhere near 15%, even if you don't accept that Feminism was in part to blame for the increase in broken marriages as an ideal it's severely tainted by coincidence.
It's also interesting to note that since Feminism imploded in the 1990's the divorce rate in this country has been going down, now that the tide has turned and young women are rightly rejecting Feminism things will start to improve.
In light of what you've posted on the Auschwitz thread you obviously do understand the way the world works but why debate one Jewish inspired conspircay theory while promoting another, ie Feminism?
The Holocaust and Feminist narratives are at one level just Jewish revenge fantasies, European women never lived as virtual slaves to their husbands oppressed by patriarchal religious laws but guess what? The Jewish women on the Shtetls and in the ghettos DID.
Is it a coincidence that the leading lights of Feminism had last names like Dworkin, Friedan, Abzug, Steinem, Blume and Cantor?

Jay

‘Huh? The divorce rate before 1976 was 16%, now it's 45% and the number of women who live alone or as life long spinsters is somewhere near 15% …’

I see that as a good thing. It shows that marriage as an institution was failing miserably. If marriage had been fulfilling to both genders, then the divorce law reforms of the mid-70s would not have made much impact.

And feminism did not ‘implode’ in the 1990s. The main goals of the 60s and 70s, i.e. removing legal barriers to women’s participation in public life, had been achieved, so second wave feminism was no longer needed. The backlash against feminism was part of the general wave of conservatism that swept the world at that time and much of the backlash trail leads back to powerful global lobby forces, especially the US Heritage Foundation.

‘In light of what you've posted on the Auschwitz thread you obviously do understand the way the world works …’

I don’t know about that, but I do know that social justice movements explode on the scene when socio-political factors come together to create opportunity. Second wave feminism leads back to the Eisenhower administration of the 1950s, which saw the untapped potential for women to become both a new consumer market and a cheap source of labour. They couldn’t give a damn about women’s rights – women were merely a means to an end.

As for the dominance of Jewish surnames in the feminist movement, I’ve noticed that too. However, it’s purely a US phenomenon. It doesn’t apply to feminism outside the US.

To try and stay on topic, my arguments here are not to discuss gender politics, but to refute (what I see as) your premise that political parties need to return to the days when global society and politics was based on young heterosexual males being mentored and supported by older heterosexual males. The future of the main political parties depends on whether or not they are willing to accept the new social realities.

Jay

Just one more thing... Although you strongly condemn feminism, I do appreciate the fact that, as much as I can recall of your posting history, you stick to addressing the arguments and don’t resort to unhelpful taunts about feminist ‘ugliness’.

Killarney, "As for the dominance of Jewish surnames in the feminist movement, I’ve noticed that too. However, it’s purely a US phenomenon. It doesn’t apply to feminism outside the US"

In Australia they seem to be lapsed Roman Catholics.

Perhaps there is a common element in there. Especially given the strong and enduring support of western feminists for Islam, tent outfits and all.

Some music,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCmdCM3A3xA

Killarney,
But what are the new social realities?
The reality that the majority of people no longer see political activism as a pathway to change?
The reality that political activism is a bourgeois pastime and that middle class Social Justice warriors devote much of their time and energy to keeping "bogans" out of their movements?

Killarney,
I like women, we have two daughters and my wife and I are raising them to be confident,self reliant and to give them some practical skills. The reason I reject Feminism is because it infantilises women and if followed to the letter renders them more vulnerable to things like exploitation and sexual assault.