"Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
-G.K. Chesterton
Feminism seems to me to be much like many things today. An overreaction to an improper view on something fundamental.
So the leader of the "2nd Wave Feminist" movement, which was primarily advocating that women join the work force, worked for the CIA...
Very convenient timing that right when the US was moving off the gold standard, and 1970s inflation was about to kick in, that a CIA agent was telling women it was a good to have a 2-person working household.
I'm not well versed on the movements but the little I have read is not good. It does seem like the roots of it go back to the anti-god humanist enlightenment influences though. In the US culture it seems like we just value masculine traits over the feminine and the feminist movement is more of a reaction to that. I have long thought that the modern model for a free woman looks more like a douche man that most men don't respect. What makes it even worse is the disdain for what makes the feminine different. We are made whole when we have both and value both.
Interesting
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In my opinion, feminism is the promotion of the commonwealths' and consortiums' interests .They want to optimize profit and revenue in the currently low birth rate era.There is not enough manpower for all the works and the need women to fill the gap.There are still a lot of women need to finish all the duty in household even if they get back home.Feminism actually forces women to carry more burden
Not sure I fully agree, but there is something about modern work vs family roles that still feels unresolved.
Feels like the quote is more about contradictions in “freedom” than feminism specifically.
Some movements start as corrections and then eventually overcorrect. History is full of examples.