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Miss_Hannigan
This stood out to me:

Elinor Burkett encountered somewhat less bonhomie 12 years ago when she began the research that ultimately grew into her book The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless. Hoping to include some insights from Betty Friedan, she phoned the feminist icon, who, Burkett reports in her book, “listened silently for the first 45 seconds,” then berated her about the importance of supporting “the great majority of women [who] have children.” And then she hung up.

“She was angry,” Burkett says now, via e-mail. “For the most part, [Friedan and other] women’s-movement leaders accepted as fact that women will be mothers . . . and all too many seem to react with hostility to any suggestion that we need to create a society in which women’s choices about parenting are fully respected and supported, as if even bringing up the issue constitutes a threat to their attempts to gain more benefits for mothers.”

This may have been a necessary strategy for feminists, says Elaine Tyler May, a professor of history and American studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the author of Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. “I think because the feminist movement took such a beating for being ‘antifamily,’ feminist leaders strategically may not have been as vocal on that issue,” May says. “Childlessness is obviously a major piece of reproductive choice . . . [But] you don’t want to spend a lot of your political capital in ways that would harm your movement more broadly.”

Even the feminists are against us!

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blondie
I didn't expect the feminists to be on board. They are interested in a socialist nanny state society in which mothers and children are supported by the government.

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Tiquer
Liked the article; thanks for sharing, Annie.

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Tiquer
Should have said: I liked the author's point of view, but have a real problem with feminists throwing CF women under the bus.

You're off the hook.

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blondie
I didn't expect the feminists to be on board. They are interested in a socialist nanny state society in which mothers and children are supported by the government.[/quote

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CrabCake
Exactly this, and also special mommy perks in the workplace such as "flexible" scheduling, not losing their place in line for promotions after mooternity leave, PAID mooternity leave, etc. etc. etc.

Yeah, they are too coddled by society to loose their pampered status and position. Entitled loosers.

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Tatayanna K.
I thought feminism was about women having choices in what we wanted to do with our lives, and including whether or not to marry or have children. I also thought that was equal opportunity came equal responsibility, i.e. not special treatment for just being women.

I guess I was wrong.

Tatayanna K.

I guess I'm wrong as well. Who knew?

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