And then Ms. Friedan spends her feminist career slashing away at men (her wonderful book, The Second Stage, notwithstanding). What arrogance! What malevolence! What an outrage! And then she publishes her secret in PLAYBOY! God, what hypocrisy!
Furthermore, on the same page, in the immediately preceding paragraph, she complains that her mother, as the wife of a businessman, did not work and:
Clearly, Betty's mother was overwhelmed by the patriarchy and her patriarchal father was having a wonderful time at work! Yes, it's true that married women at that time seldom worked. It was considered low class for a wife to work. But is that grounds to vilify men indiscriminately? What about her mother's fantasies that could never be satisfied - by him or by her own children? Were her children in collusion with the Patriarchy? Could her mother's fantasies have had some bearing on what Ms. Friedan spent her adult years doing?
We need to expose more information about the psychological and sociological backgrounds of these women, bitter and rageful, as they are, that dominate the women's movement and deign to speak for the` plight of "all women." Their personal agendas, often warped by projective reasoning, self-righteously accusing men as the problem rather than their very disturbed mothers who have remained sacrosanct, protected behind the "innocence of motherhood" and the wall and wail of feminist rhetoric.
Judith and James now have their own website HERE
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