The Paradox of Female Happiness
The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.
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The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.
Strident, inflammatory, provocative, opinionated – in numerous ways, Greer is difficult to like. She annihilates men and belittles other women, shooting down feminist allies from Friedan to Weldon.
It is puzzling how smart people can diverge so much on political issues. Especially when their lines of reasoning are completely delineated, covering much of the arguments in dispute.
Why I'm pro-democracy; anti-totalitarianism; and support for universal human rights.
According to the radicals, the male caste has oppressed the female caste to the point where anything that can be described as ‘feminine’ is evidence of oppression.
The problem with P.C. is that it constrains the questions that we feel we can ask both of ourselves, and our superiors. It allows orthodoxy to creep in (as it always does).
Humanities graduates, who specialize in snark, but not much else, now claim to speak on all women’s behalf.
Conflicting and contradictory messages about modern feminine identity inflames ambivalence.