RetroBites: Betty Friedan: Men (1964)

Feminist Betty Friedan explains how men benefited from women's liberation.

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[ddabab]

What a wonderful human being!!!

[happylilsunbeam]

I'm always fascinated by the comments people leave. I understand why people like to dismiss everything these days but I wish we could just allow ourselves a bit more room to be open and embracing. Everyone seems so dismissive and mostly concerned with trying to prove they know so much better. When I listen to this clip I understand perfectly well what she's talking about and I think it's very insightful.

[xanthisaenz]

@KumarZimmerman08 If females are nothing but demons to you. You are nothing but a brain washed religious being. The proof is all on you. Whether you accept yourself or not.

[cooeypig]

She bashed the vietnam fighters who had no choice but to go in the first place due to the draft.

[AntiMale]

@ReverendNillerz That's it? You're not going to refute what I said? Of course, because you, I, and everyone else would agree with my stance.

What I said wasn't created out of thin air. Create a survey asking men who takes most of the responsibility of child-rearing/domestic duties. Women pretty much screw themselves the moment that baby pops its head out. Have a nice life!

[ReverendNillerz]

@AntiMale There is something seriously wrong with you, and I think you need to be examined.

[ReverendNillerz]

I like my haircut high and tight, I like suppressing my emotions until they go away, I like being able to separate myself from my feelings to analyse situations rationally, I like being the way I am, and no one needs to change me. Sometimes I like getting righteously indignant about something that I find offensive. I genuinely enjoy being a man in the classical sense, and anyone who wants me to be anything different can fellate by testicles.

[PinguPair]

@jackxbf1 Just so you know, she was married and had 3 children. Check it out for yourself, there's a NYTimes article called 'Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85 ' that has it all ;)

[AntiMale]

@knightschwartz Unless you are ever in a woman's shoes, you will not understand the sheer sacrifice and higher degree of selflessness that it takes to be a mother and wife.

Men like yourself complain about the destruction of family when they can not even do half of what women do. And let's be honest, you wouldn't do it.

Now women have to put up with DOUBLE the work load: work and family.

Or do you not want to make your own meals? Do your own laundry?

[knightschwartz]

feminists have done there job well. destroying the family, morality, motherhood. Oh and they don't complain about rap music because they don't criticize blacks.

[knightschwartz]

THe feminists have done there job well. Divorce sky rocketed. Illegtimacy way up. Woman stressed out, without children or family, unfufilled. society falls apart. The west is dying. Mission accomplished, Betty! Oh but the feminists don't complain about the rappers b/c there black. PC as can be.