Freedom for women! Equality of the sexes! Estrogen power! Women, Save yourselves from the evil foot of the devilish white man! Is this not the tune being sung by the rising feminist movement? Perhaps this is only the extremes. However, recently there has been an enormous surge of women in colleges and the workforce. It seems that even though there are no longer campaigns for women’s rights, the feminist movement has never been stronger. Every day the envelop of what is socially acceptable for women is being expanded. The creed of political correctness has changed. It is no longer “equal rights,” but rather “sacred sameness”
Now to be fair, I absolutely agree with equal rights. I believe equal opportunities for all races and genders is absolutely imperative. However, I believe that sameness, absolute equality, sexual in-distinction and gender oriented identically leads to the destruction of the traditional nuclear family. To start, I found the following quotes at http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" -- Sheila Cronan
"In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them" Dr. Mary Jo Bane, feminist and assistant professor of education at Wellesley College and associate director of the school's Center for Research on Woman
"The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women." Kate Millet, Sexual Politics 178-179
"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ... "Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests. ... -- Functions of the Family, Linda Gordon, WOMEN: A Journal of Liberation, Fall, 1969.
Thus far we note that many of the prominent supporters of the feminist movement are absolutely for the destruction of the nuclear family. They say that without the destruction of the family there can be no true equality of men and women. I agree. In order for women to become absolutely completely equal to men they must be indistinguishable from men in every possible way. Since the institution of marriage obviously recognizes differences in men, women and children, it can not be a component of an absolutely equal society. Therefore, the increasing rise of women as a product of feministic ideals is fundamentally opposed to the institution marriage and therefore the nuclear family. It is not the presence of women in the workforce that is fundamentally against the family, but rather that idea of absolute, total, sacred equality and sameness of the sexes is fundamentally diametrical to the philosophy of the nuclear family. It isn’t that women have equal rights and opportunities. The family breakdown occurs only when women attempt to make themselves identical to men. Perhaps it could have something to do with the anatomical and neural differences of men and women?
Since this is the case, the logical question that should follow is whether or not these changes in the nuclear family are desirable or dreadful. I say it is detrimental in the extreme. Hitler himself said, “When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’” In other words, if you can break down the family, if you can indoctrinate the children, then your government will wield absolute power. This is not the American Ideal. "Destroy the family, and you destroy society." -Vladimir Lenin
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