Betty Freidan

[Penn]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10693287/

Betty Friedan has passed away at 85, on her birthday.

C-Span had some viewer commentary about her this morning.

 

[vraiblonde]

Good riddance, lying beyotch who has done more to destroy our society than any other woman in history. :nosethumb:

 

[Penn]

Good riddance, lying beyotch who has done more to destroy our society than any other woman in history. :nosethumb:

That's ironic Vrai: The women who called in to C-Span to comment on her passing, had just the opposite to say.

It was the men who echoed your thoughts!

The women said she opened the door for them to go out into the workforce and obtain careers/jobs that were previously unavailable to them.

The men said Ms. Friedan was basically a homewrecker.

 

[Kyle]

... Betty Friedan has passed away at 85, on her birthday. ...

Surprise Party?

 

[Kyle]

... The women said she opened the door for them to go out into the workforce and obtain careers/jobs that were previously unavailable to them.

They're confusing her with WWII.

 

[vraiblonde]

The women said she opened the door for them to go out into the workforce and obtain careers/jobs that were previously unavailable to them.

There have been women professors, doctors and other professionals since before Betty Friedan was born. All she's done for the last 40 years is tell perfectly happy women that they're losers because they want to be married and raise children instead burn their bra and go to law school.

She's a fraud. http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/friedan-per-horowitz.html

 

[vraiblonde]

They're confusing her with WWII.

Exactly.

 

[Penn]

There have been women professors, doctors and other professionals since before Betty Friedan was born. All she's done for the last 40 years is tell perfectly happy women that they're losers because they want to be married and raise children instead burn their bra and go to law school.

She's a fraud. http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/friedan-per-horowitz.html

Yeoww!!


I had not read that about her. Make no mistake, I was no fan of hers, but I sure as hell did not know about her communistic leanings.

"Friedan began a long tradition among American feminists of seeing compulsory domesticity as the main consequence of 1950s McCarthyism." Well, perhaps it's not American feminists Friedan has sold this bizarre version of reality to, so much as American Communists posing as feminists and unsuspecting young women whose only understanding of this past will come from their tenured leftist professors."

 

[willie]

She looks (looked) just like Helen Thomas. Poor woman.

 

[vraiblonde]

I had not read that about her. Make no mistake, I was no fan of hers, but I sure as hell did not know about her communistic leanings.

I did a report on Betty Friedan when I was in high school, thinking it would be an easy A because my English teacher was a feminist type. She gave me a D and we spent a whole class period getting an education about Ms. Friedan and the feminist movement in general. I got to be the poster child for poor research and half-assed effort.

 

[Penn]

I did a report on Betty Friedan when I was in high school, thinking it would be an easy A because my English teacher was a feminist type. She gave me a D and we spent a whole class period getting an education about Ms. Friedan and the feminist movement in general. I got to be the poster child for poor research and half-assed effort.

That explains a lot!

 

[Hessian]

Not much different than...

I'll Get you my pretty...
and your little dog too!

 

[Tonio]

All she's done for the last 40 years is tell perfectly happy women that they're losers because they want to be married and raise children instead burn their bra and go to law school.

You're right. It was wrong for her to do that. It was also wrong for traditionalists to tell women they were losers for wanting careers instead of families. I think the real problem is that too many people, both traditionalists and feminists, thought they had the right to tell women what to do with their lives. Whether a woman wants to be a mother or a homemaker or a working mom or a career woman, or all of the above, that's her business and not society's or Friedan's.

 

[Larry Gude]

Objectively...

...Betty was another visible part of the Cold War, an agent, basically, of the Soviet Union.

Destroy from within.

 

[bcp]

Business loved her.
all of a sudden they had all of these women that were anxious to find their place in the corporate world, so anxious that the pay scale was lowered for them, saving the corporations millions.

the problem is that overnight the workforce was doubled in the country, and the jobs available stayed the same, someone was going to lose out.

Caps begain being placed on the salaries available for certain job types as the women became a viable part of the work force, they would accept less.

Today what we see from all of this is that it is now almost a requirement to have both husband and wife working to earn the same standard of living that the male alone was able to afford 50 years ago.

In some ways it was good to get the women in the workforce, they brought with them talent that was very much up to par and in some cases better than their male counterparts, but at the same time due to the economics of the process, wages were not able to keep up with the cost of living in the blue collar arena.

Now, if they would raise the pay scales again, I would gladly stop working, do the shopping, the running of the kid, laundry cleaining cooking etc...
I dont have a problem being a kept man if the money is right coming into the household.

 

[willie]

Business loved her.

Not Maidenform.

 

[Tonio]

Not Maidenform.

I never understood the point of the bra-burning. Were the feminists claiming that men invented bras to keep the puppies perky for their own visual enjoyment, and the women didn't want to be sex objects? That wouldn't make sense, since men also find visual enjoyment when the puppies are unleashed.

 

[bcp]

How come Betty, who actually did something with her life gets no real recognition, yet, Martin Lufers ho who actually did nothing but marry him be sitting in state down in Atlanta? Oh wait, thats right, must appease the minorities at every chance.

 

[vraiblonde]

How come Betty, who actually did something with her life gets no real recognition, yet, Martin Lufers ho who actually did nothing but marry him be sitting in state down in Atlanta? Oh wait, thats right, must appease the minorities at every chance.

I find it highly patronizing and offensive that all these politicians are rushing to the funeral of Mrs. King (who is NOT a ho ). "Look at me! Look at me! I loooove me some black people, yes I do! Vote for ME because I looooove you!"

 

[bcp]

I find it highly patronizing and offensive that all these politicians are rushing to the funeral of Mrs. King (who is NOT a ho ). "Look at me! Look at me! I loooove me some black people, yes I do! Vote for ME because I looooove you!"

I used the ho in the ho sense,, as in shes my ho, move on,,
not in the ho as in Will sell you some booty ho.

perhaps I should have defined this earlier.