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| Betty Friedan |
Having lived abroad for some years, I have perhaps some distance, some objectivity. I can say that feminism has ruined North American women.
It has set up any relationship for them as a struggle for power—“the personal is political.” No room for mutual support; no room for affection. Men are the ancestral enemy. They must be made to submit. They must submit to the woman in all situations.
This is seen as well in the “Karen” phenomenon. This is an assumption of power: each woman considers herself the ultimate authority on everything, and everyone else must defer to her.
This certainly does not work for men. A relationship with a woman means surrendering his freedom entirely to her leadership—and freedom is far more important for men than for women. And what does he get in return? A mother for his children? She’s not interested. Pregnancy and childrearing are oppressive—“barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.” Therefore children are resented. She will abandon them to strangers for the sake of her career, if she does not abort them.
So, he loses freedom, gets no affection or respect, does not get a stable home life, and she may leave him at any time, and take the house and kids. He has invited an enemy into his life, into his home, into his bedroom.
But interestingly, this does not work for women either. Surveys suggest women are less happy than they used to be in pre-feminine societies. Women do not naturally crave independence and leadership—these are male values. They naturally crave security, affection, and human contact: the things feminism has turned them away from.
This itself illustrates why women should not lead in the home: they lack a natural sense of direction, literally, figuratively, and in all spheres. They are hard-wired instead to be flexible, and to follow the leader. Feminism has become the leader, and they are following it, against their better interests, right off a cliff. And, as they have assumed leadership in the family, they are dragging men, children, and society as a whole off that cliff with them.
