June 26, 2006 6:06 AM
Fulltime motherhood found "not worthy"
From LifeSite:
Feminist Says Child Rearing not Worthy of Time and Talents of Intelligent HumansBy Hilary White
NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Linda Hirshman, a feminist US writer on cultural issues, has told the world why she thinks staying at home with the children is an occupation “not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings.” She complains at length that the feminist movement, while making some gains in public life through legal activism, has largely failed in the one area where it counts most: the family.
She upbraids women who stay at home for failing the feminist agenda, saying, “They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings.”
Writing in the November 2005 edition of the American Prospect, Hirshman admitted that the real intention of the feminist movement was not “equality”, but to destroy what she calls “the unreconstructed family” of a husband and wife rearing children. She writes that the goal was to see as many women as possible abandoning family life for high-level professions and politics.
Hirshman, a committed radical, was a member in the 1970s of the feminist lobby, the National Organization for Women (NOW), a donor to the pro-abortion political organization, EMILY’s List, and a professor of women’s studies.
But, she complains, the movement has “stalled”; while the “public world has changed…private lives have hardly budged.” Childrearing is still seen by both men and women to be the natural purview of women. She writes of her “shock” to discover that among those professional women whom she called the “logical heirs of feminism”, large numbers were leaving their careers to opt for childrearing.
Read the rest here
As a former radical Second Wave feminist (circa 1970), I have been saying for years that the "Women's Movement" goal was not just equal rights and equal pay, but the destruction of the American family. I'm glad someone still inside the movement is finally admitting it their desire to control the lives of women they've deluded into feeling of freedom because they've secured a "right to choose" (the choice being whether or not to allow a baby to live).
I'm grateful I finally saw the light - and will continue to pray for Ms. Hirshman and others trapped in the same rigid mentality.
HT to This Is Not a Job for Superheroes, a Manila (Philippines) Pro Life site who links to MommyLife. Lots of good information there
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Comments
I answered Linda R. Hirshman's "American Prospect" article back in the fall. Ever since, my blog has been the number one response when you Google "Linda R. Hirshman." I find that hilarious! I just mentioned this on my blog last week.
Posted by: Mel | June 26, 2006 12:51 PM
