Here we go again.
A lot of successful and conservative professional women tell young women who do not need careers to have satisfactory lives. All they need to do is avoid university (or better yet, simply use it to find a husband), marry, have babies, stay at home and live happily forever.
Perhaps he has noticed the proliferation of influencers of the “traditional wife” (that is, the traditional wife) in various forms of social networks, or the coverage of conferences such as the top of leadership of young women of bad name that recently took place in Dallas. A project of the conservative student organization of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, the Summit promised to focus on “fundamental aspects of femininity” such as “Femininity and Welfare.”
The conference attracted 3,000 women who, according to reports, were mostly university students or young professionals. They released pins that said “My favorite season is the fall of feminism” and “Dumpe to her socialist boyfriend”, and Kirk said: “We should bring back the celebration of the lady.”
“The left wants women to feel angry and, like the victims, and just like their rights are being removed,” said a 31 -year influence called Arynne Wexler to a reporter from New York magazine. Not to put a point too well, but in fact your rights are be carried. Maybe he has forgotten that the Supreme Court revoked the right to abortion in 2022?
Anyway, there is absolutely nothing new here. A certain subset of women, heterosexuals, white, conservative, religious, has always fought against gender equality for its own reasons, but above all it would say because it threatens its own privileged status and proximity to male power.
Almost half a century before Wexler regretted “the left,” Phyllis Schlafly, a lawyer, author and antifminist crusade, basically said: “The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. The self -imposed victim is not a recipe for happiness.”
Hmm. I am quite sure that it was the oppressive patriarchy which prevented women from possessing properties, had their own credit cards and bank accounts, obtained salary equality, accessed birth control and legal abortion, serving in jurors and occupying a public office. Until the Second Wave feminism occurred in the sixties and seventies, I am also quite sure that the oppressive patriarchy allowed employers to fire women once they married or became pregnant, and that domestic violence, marriage rape and sexual harassment were not treated as crimes. Ah, and it was the feminists who pressed for the title IX of the Civil Rights Law, which addressed gender inequality in education, including, crucially, in sports.
Attacking feminism because you have never experienced a time when women were not, for the most part, legally equal to the springs of the men of the same ignorant, as well as believing that measles vaccines are unnecessary because you have never experienced the disease (largely in the measurement of vaccines) by yourself.
In fact, reciting the achievements of feminism reminds me of that classic scene in the 1979 black comedy “Monty Python's Life of Brian”. You can remember: What have the Romans give us? (Only sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water and public health system).
A thread consisting of the argument against gender equality is that feminism makes women feel bad about staying at home with their children and not continuing careers.
In Dallas last month, young people attending the conference told the New York Times “that was feminism and professional ambition by making them unhappy, not the broader stress of the walks through the puzzle of the responsibilities of modern life.”
In 1994, the then first Lady Barbara Bush said she had experienced a period of depression and that she partly attributed it to “women's movement”, which, as he told NPR, “made women who stayed at home feel inadequate.” I understand. But in response, he would paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can make you feel inappropriate without your consent. If you are lucky to be able to stay at home with your children and do not feel forced to forge a career, more power for you.
Alex Clark, a popular podcaster and influential that headed the leadership conference of young women, offered the crowd that made America feel healthy again: “Less Prozac and more proteins. Less exhaustion, more babies, less feminism, more femininity.”
But having many babies is stressful – Having a baby is stressful – And it can certainly lead to your own type of exhaustion.
One of the most popular operations in the country, Hannah Neeleman, is a mormon mother of eight young children. She is married to a rancher who is the son of the founder of Jet Blue, has more than 9 million followers on social networks and, as a former professional dancer, publishes under the dancer farm.
Last summer, in a profile published by The Times of London, he was called the “Queen of Tradwives.” We learned that she makes all food purchases, makes all meals and has no help with the care of children. I maintain that she is also a professional woman, since she directs popular social media accounts that generate millions of dollars a year in income. In an impressive admission, her husband told the London Times reporter that her wife “sometimes gets sick from the exhaustion that he cannot get out of bed for a week.”
I could not help thinking about Mormons housewives in the state of Utah, which has directed the nation in antidepressant prescriptions for decades. “Most men here as soon as their wives would take pills who bother to deepen the problems, and perhaps discover that they could have something to do with the problems,” a Mormon mother told Los Angeles Times in 2002, the year in which the recipe study was published.
Dana Loesch, a conservative commentator, radio and author presenter who once criticized the National Rifles Association, was one of the speakers in Dallas whose reality contradicts her rhetoric.
“I will tell you this, ladies,” he told the crowd. “You can't have everything, at the same time. Something will suffer.”
Oh please. Loesch has everything: a career, marriage and children.
So why can't they?
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