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Suddenly feminism is a hot topic in the Mainstream Media, and The Flipside of Feminism provides an analysis that definitely is not Politically Correct. Modern feminist writer Jessica Valenti defined feminism in the Washington Post as "a structural analysis of a world that oppresses women, an ideology based on the notion that patriarchy exists and that it needs to end." Venker and Schlafly, who believe that American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived, describe feminism as the fraud of the century. The strident feminists never wanted gender equality; they want power for the female left, which is why they use the word empowerment so repetitively. The female left argues for women to be independent of men, self-supporting, sexually uninhibited, and liberated from the obligations of marriage and motherhood. In 2009, the feminists gave fulsome publicity to "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," published by the leftwing think tank, Center for American Progress. The 400-page Shriver Report boasted that we are now living in a "woman's world," and "Emergent economic power gives women a new seat at the table, at the head of the table." However, the National Bureau of Economic Research reports, "As women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy. It's time that young women have a handbook that explains the real agenda of the feminists plus a non-feminist roadmap to a happy life. Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly have provided this in The Flipside of Feminism. (WND Books, 2011, 248 pp., $25.95) |
Picturing women as the victims of mean men is the engine of feminism, which is always wrapped in whines about alleged discrimination. Feminist dogma decrees that women can never be successful in our socalled patriarchy (which is why feminists can't stop attacking Sarah Palin -- by any standard, she is a successful woman).
