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Young people are taught that women before 1970 or so were suppressed, deprived of education and legally raped by their husbands. But I’m telling you that’s false. My mom, her friends, and many other women I knew were not dupes, weaklings, and victims. Whoever wishes to can hate me for this, but I was there and I know what I saw… and I will defend the women I loved.

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108 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 5 May freebie

Attitudes changed quite quickly. Perhaps we will return to the mean again, at least for those that can afford to.

Just watch these clips from the 70s…

🇬🇧1973: https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1726614378823450694 🇦🇺 1976: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Uu-VTXfRE

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 5 May

I'm not claiming this was a full-on premeditated conspiracy....but it is interesting that Gloria Steinem (the famous feminist) was outed that she was on CIA payroll.

Very coincidental that the moment the feminist movement started pushing for "women should join the workforce" was same time US went off Gold Standard (1971)

The days of single-earner households are largely a thing of the past, and due to inflation, now it requires both parents to work. So...I guess it was a good strategy that they convinced women that it would be more fulfilling for them to spend their life in a cubicle, rather then being at home with kids.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 5 May

Why was Gloria on the CIA payroll?

What was her job? Bang Russian spies and diplomats for secret information? She did spend one year working at a playboy club

Men are so weak when it comes to sex lol

We will compromise national security for multiple orgasms

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 5 May

Why was Gloria on the CIA payroll?

https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/feminist-was-spy

What is often missed, or mischaracterized, however, is the work she did as a CIA agent: Steinem was a spook. CIA agents are tight-lipped, but Steinem spoke openly about her relationship to The Agency in the 1950s and ’60s after a magazine revealed her employment by a CIA front organization, the Independent Research Service.

While popularly pilloried because of her paymaster, Steinem defended the CIA relationship, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.” ... Long before the formalized concept of soft power, Steinem personified and promoted abroad the vigor and progressive nature of the U.S. youth movement.

Men are so weak when it comes to sex lol

For sure, I'm actually convinced that the best way to influence weak leaders is to not send mean tweets to them, but to send mean tweets to their wives. A wife, who is publicly belittled and criticized, would do more to shape her weak husbands beliefs than what another man could. (note: I'm not actually promoting this and I don't even have social media accounts, nor do I read them....just pointing out that influencing wives is the key to social change).

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 5 May

Being a woman, I always held the view that women are not too weak to be victimized. Indeed they shouldn't be.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 5 May

Yes, you're right. My mother and many women of her age were not suppressed, deprived of education and legally rapped by their husbands, that too in India.

This was nothing more than a feminist propoganda and it's the same story today.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SilkyNinja 6 May

The book The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is likely the source material for the perspective you are criticizing.

Friedan emphasizes the widespread malaise and discontent of college educated women who are barred from the workforce or are otherwise marginalized on account of pregnancy and motherhood (herself as a writer included). This is accomplished via mostly firsthand interviews if I recall. It is more about a lack of vocational fulfillment (exacerbated by higher education and intellectual capacity). There was a more recent anthropology text (I can’t recall the name) that I read part of that implied it is a cross-species phenomenon for females to need to have work in addition to motherhood as part of a psychology of individuated success.

Motherhood is arguably the most important job in the world. However, there is evidence to suggest that women need work outside of motherhood to feel fulfilled as individuals. My own grandmother, who was more a “housewife” in the sixties, ended up working as her husband’s business partner and has always emphasized to me the importance of working as it relates to mental health. I remember vividly her mad dash to bridge the gap of fulfilling activity in her life following retirement. Her perspective is that women who do not have some work outside of child-rearing mentally suffer compared to women who do.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anniedustan 6 May

It's amazing how quickly a story can form and people will believe it to be true! The way I explain this to others is using the story of the sword in the stone. Merlin placed the sword in the stone and then told a few people a legend that the stone had been there for a long time waiting for the right person to come along and remove it, which would restore magic within Albion. This then got around the city and everyone tried to remove it. Merlin helped Arthur to remove it by using his magic and the fun began! People will tell you what they want to be true - if it gets told enough it then becomes a 'truth'.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 6 May

Sure the housewife has been vilified and the tradwife trend on TikTok triggers many who couldn't choose that life for themselves, you can vilifiy something all you want but what I think radicialises people is not having the choice, how many households can do it on 1 income?

Women felt they had to go out and work, even if they got a raw deal

Fight for your right to drive down wages and feed the ponzi, get more of society into debt with student loans, autoloans and expand the credit cycle for home loans

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 6 May

Being a mother is not for the weak. I just feel people and society do this often. They take something good, and twist it around to suit their own narrative.