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Leftist Men Are Not Born to Lead Radical Struggles

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Dear SOG,

Regarding your take on feminism?

Yes, a great deal has changed. New economic roles
have brought women greater equality with men and
also many fresh opportunities, particularly the
chance to experience careers and achievements in the
world beyond the home. But working women have not
simply traded their housework for a career; many
that I know have taken on two jobs - one at home,
and one at work.

Surveys show that most working women enjoy their job,
for economic and other reasons.
Yet for many women the experience of
a career has involved finding out that the rigors
of pursuing their careers, maintaining intimate
relationships, and raising children, are difficult to
balance.

Some, who put their career before marriage are finding
out that they have hit the 'invisible ceiling.' Now in
their forties, they regard themselves as casualties of
their own revolution - especially if they did not
marry and now face the prospect of never finding a husband
or having children.

Also many post-feminist generation of women today take the
benefits of women's liberation for granted, yet are
dubious about the burdens of being the perfect wife,
mother, and executive.

Changes in women's roles has had an immense impact on the
family. A generation of Australian children is now being
raised by working mothers who leave them in some form of
day care from an early age - something unprecedented on this
scale in the Australian experience. Additionally, women's
new independence has made it possible for them to contemplate
leaving unhappy marriages or raising children on their own.
Partly as a result, there has been a sharp increase in the
number of divorces, of births to unwed women,
and of female-headed households.

One in every two married women is now likely to get divorced,
and one of every five mothers is single.
Yet many of these women have found themselves highly vulnerable.

Masculine roles are now more ambiguous, more flexible,
more subject to interpretation by the individual.
Resolving this kind of ambiguity is part of the challenge of
social and cultural change.
Posted by Lexi, Saturday, 13 July 2013 2:57:16 PM
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leftist Men are not men they are frustrated females. just as leftist women are mere frustrated females.
It takes a lot more than that lot has to offer to be either Man or Woman.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 13 July 2013 5:07:49 PM
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individual,

According to Pablo Picasso -
"There are only two kinds of women -
goddesses and doormats."

And as Kathy Lette said about men:
"Men only call themselves 'feminists'
in the hope of getting a more intelligent root."
Posted by Lexi, Saturday, 13 July 2013 6:33:11 PM
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and both parties end up disappointed...
Posted by Antiseptic, Saturday, 13 July 2013 6:47:46 PM
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Lexi,

You are a follower. You have choice equal to men and arguably greater in many respects through the affirmative action assistance to women that has been applied for the past forty years and rigidly so in State and federal public agencies.

Yet again you follow the dictates of the very narrow careerism of the educated middle class feminists who have hijacked the women's movement in Australia for their own benefit.

The one destiny, the one track you promote for women is career, with child support as necessary for the trophy child. You would likely have children raised by the State if you could. You see nothing wrong with the diminishing role and even alienation of fathers. You would likely wonder about women who were concerned.

You and the egocentric, materialistic, educated middle class feminists you serve cannot see what is so obvious, that women go through many transitions in life and they CHOOSE to do so, WEIGHING the pros and cons and more often making the deep meaningful and rewarding choices of marriage, family and children.

That is an area where Western feminists such as yourself deny benefits and support to women who (say) see work useful for economic benefit and may choose to move in and out of it but do not consider that consumerism and career is the best life worth living for them. You are hopelessly stuck in your very narrow conception of women, imagining they are all the same as yourself and not tolerating any difference. That is why you are seen as dinosaurs and it is also why women from other cultures resist your 'advice', choosing more varied, productive and loving lives themselves.

Young people have choice and accept responsibility. They do not need excuses and they certainly do not need the direction of feminist dinosaurs who bounce between such narrow rails. But of course those feminist dinosaurs are after what what suits them, aren't they? To swing from the taxpayers' teat forever, getting the inside running to their favoured senior roles. They embarrass able women who don't need or want such support.
Posted by onthebeach, Saturday, 13 July 2013 7:21:35 PM
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Lol Lexi, I liked your two quotes : )
Naturally, I like to think that you and I are of the ' Goddess' variety?

Onthebeach, you need to lighten up.

Those thousands of darn middle-aged, well-heeled, high-income, man-hating, highly educated, rabid, radical , sexist feminists seem to be getting to you lately?
Hell, you are even frightening me!

If they are so not applicable to today's world, why on earth do you spend so much time ranting about them on this forum ?
Posted by Suseonline, Saturday, 13 July 2013 8:05:28 PM
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