Amen to that. I'm pretty sure Ayn Rand mentioned this as part of the communist agenda in her book "We the Living". She based it on her own experiences in Russia just after the revolution.
It achieved several things: It allowed unbalanced women to get into positions of power (either corporate or govt). These same women would have just been the type of loony who at most would have terrorized their own families and other housewives. Feminism unleashed them on the rest of us.
Secondly, it created dual-income homes, which increased the tax-base which allowed the government to spend spend spend. The extra income also boosted corporate sales.
Thirdly, women having full-time jobs meant kids went into indoctrination centers (daycares, etc) for a large part of the day. The argument was made at the time that "studies had shown" that there would be no damage to children. I think we can see the actual outcome of the process now, after one generation.
And fourth, all of this basically destroyed family structures. Where once kids could depend on their mom being home for them during the day, they now had to compete with "mom's bad day at work". Then mom was made to feel guilty and instead of quitting and staying home with the kiddies, they started spending even more money to buy off their kids. And since mommy wasn't home to cook, and mommy felt bad, kids started getting fed whatever fast food garbage was being pushed by the TV as regular meals rather than the occasional treat. So now their kids were unhealthy, as well - both physically and mentally.
I don't think that the people pushing feminism knew where this was going to go (not enough data back in the 70s/80s), but it's continuing to have long-term negative effects that are highly visible now.
Yes it destroyed the family structure as the norm. Homes without fathers, not good for children! Kids institutionally warehoused from birth.
Not good for women, being forced into the labor market, where many work jobs which are not -- what feminism promised, reaching one's potential etc. Wage slave instead of homemaker, which they preached to women as if that were slavery!
That was the part that gets me - saying that "staying home equals slavery", but then being locked into a job with a schedule and bosses and co-workers that you have to put up with no matter what, is some sort of freedom.
I think one of the few positive benefits of Covid/lockdowns was that more younger women got the chance to experience a homelife that they themselves never had and they liked it so much that they stayed home.
Amen to that. I'm pretty sure Ayn Rand mentioned this as part of the communist agenda in her book "We the Living". She based it on her own experiences in Russia just after the revolution.
It achieved several things: It allowed unbalanced women to get into positions of power (either corporate or govt). These same women would have just been the type of loony who at most would have terrorized their own families and other housewives. Feminism unleashed them on the rest of us.
Secondly, it created dual-income homes, which increased the tax-base which allowed the government to spend spend spend. The extra income also boosted corporate sales.
Thirdly, women having full-time jobs meant kids went into indoctrination centers (daycares, etc) for a large part of the day. The argument was made at the time that "studies had shown" that there would be no damage to children. I think we can see the actual outcome of the process now, after one generation.
And fourth, all of this basically destroyed family structures. Where once kids could depend on their mom being home for them during the day, they now had to compete with "mom's bad day at work". Then mom was made to feel guilty and instead of quitting and staying home with the kiddies, they started spending even more money to buy off their kids. And since mommy wasn't home to cook, and mommy felt bad, kids started getting fed whatever fast food garbage was being pushed by the TV as regular meals rather than the occasional treat. So now their kids were unhealthy, as well - both physically and mentally.
I don't think that the people pushing feminism knew where this was going to go (not enough data back in the 70s/80s), but it's continuing to have long-term negative effects that are highly visible now.
Yes it destroyed the family structure as the norm. Homes without fathers, not good for children! Kids institutionally warehoused from birth.
Not good for women, being forced into the labor market, where many work jobs which are not -- what feminism promised, reaching one's potential etc. Wage slave instead of homemaker, which they preached to women as if that were slavery!
That was the part that gets me - saying that "staying home equals slavery", but then being locked into a job with a schedule and bosses and co-workers that you have to put up with no matter what, is some sort of freedom.
I think one of the few positive benefits of Covid/lockdowns was that more younger women got the chance to experience a homelife that they themselves never had and they liked it so much that they stayed home.