No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.
Source: “A Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir,” in Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement, (New York: Random House, 1976)
Perry is at least carrying on the ancient feminist tradition.
No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.
Source: “A Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir,” in Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement, (New York: Random House, 1976)
Perry is at least carrying on the ancient feminist tradition.
Yowza, Nate! I'd never heard that. Thanks for sharing.
If you ever really want to dive down a dark rabbit hole, Other McCain did a book on it.
https://theothermccain.com/2024/06/07/about-that-book-you-didnt-read/
Thanks, I'll check it out
Great piece, Ted. Catherine Pakaluk did a nice piece on Butker's speech:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/05/harrison-butkers-speech-wasnt-for-us
Thanks very much, Dan. I just read that piece at your suggestion. Really good stuff.