The Flipside of Feminism: What Smart Women Know and Men Can't Say
Suzanne Venker, Phyllis Schlafly
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 2:00333826
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Forty years have passed since the so-called women's movement claimed to liberate women from preconceived notions of what it means to be female—and the results are in. The latest statistics show that as women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy. In The Flipside of Feminism, Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly provide readers with a new view of women in America—casting off the ideology that preaches faux empowerment and liberation from men and marriage. Their book demonstrates that conservative women are, in fact, the most liberated women in America and the folks to whom young people should be turning for advice. Their confident and rational approach to the battle of the sexes is precisely what America needs.
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another factor at play. In the liberal mind, an adult—even a parent—cannot tell young people what to do if they themselves have engaged in the behavior they’re warning against. But this is absurd. “Of all the myths getting in the way of giving better advice to young people, most dangerous is the view that we must be perfect angels in order to have an opinion on anything. But it can’t be right that we can never learn from experience, that we must merely clothe, bathe, feed, and shelter our babies,
tells More Magazine, “Why should they?” We don’t know the details behind Jesse James and Sandra Bullock’s marriage, of course, but the specifics aren’t important to our analysis. What is important is the theme of today’s marriages. Young people say they consider marriage a priority; but many don’t have a solid grasp on why marriage is necessary, nor do they appreciate the many factors that can help make it a success. In an article titled “Tipper and Al Gore Separate: Congratulations to Them,”
by implying it would have a happy ending. In fact, the book is a left-wing diatribe. Gilbert questions the purpose of marriage at every turn and blames conservatives for keeping women down. She carefully avoids the term liberal—thus making her case for feminism even more insidious—but repeatedly uses the term conservative as though it were a bad word. Gilbert’s background, which she details in Committed, sheds light on why she is such a confused young woman. In one passage, she wrote, “I was
wherever you go—it’s just a matter of whether you choose to listen to it.”8 Think about that. Modern women are forcing themselves, with society’s blessing, to ignore their conscience. That is no small matter. There is no way to feel serious, debilitating guilt if there is nothing to feel guilty about. A woman who cannot rid herself of guilt, whose heart feels as though it is being crushed, has simply made a bad decision. That is the nature of guilt. The only reason the definition has become
work and sacrifice. But women don’t want to be “free” if being free means being single, dependent on the government, or even being a big-shot powerhouse with no time for family. Most women in America want what any reasonable person wants: a family to love and—yes—even depend on. The female left wants something else. “As we approach a new century—and a new millennium—it’s the men who have to break through to a new way of thinking about themselves and society,” wrote Betty Friedan in the 2001
