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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.

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Yowza, Nate! I'd never heard that. Thanks for sharing.

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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/

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Thanks, I'll check it out

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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

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Thanks very much, Dan. I just read that piece at your suggestion. Really good stuff.

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