If there is one thing I despise above all else, it is the feminist movement. No, it isn’t because I am a male chauvinist pig who thinks women exist to please men, and the women’s liberation movement gave them too much power. (Well, I might be a little chauvinist.) Feminism destroyed the nuclear family, leaving generations of children without fathers because women were “empowered” to believe they could have it all and didn’t need a man to support them. Before I get myself in trouble here I should clarify that not all broken families are because of feminism, and women are perfectly capable of having a career and raising children without a man. They have been doing it for decades. The question is how it affects children to grow up in a single-parent household. I grew up without either parent and was raised by my father’s aunt. She had three kids of her own, and by the time I was six, she and her husband were getting divorced. Over the years she would invite different men whom she became involved with to move in. This had devastating consequences on her own children who grew up with many behavioral and emotional issues. This isn’t to mention the issues I grew up with because my whole life was nothing but one broken family after the other, but that is a story for a different time.
Today’s feminist movement is leading to irreversible problems that are turning society upside down. First, the current generation of young women is flat-out rejecting ideas of traditional marriage and raising children. According to an article entitled “We are Happier on Our Own,” young women are growing up in the shadows of what they call, the lost generation of feminism. Like a typical feminist, the writer blames men for the predicament women found themselves in, which even the writer admits, was created by the “women can do it all mentality.” She states that today’s young woman grew up in an environment where the mother was expected to have a career, raise the children, and take care of all the household chores. Ironically, she goes on to claim this is what caused a generation of men who do not know how to equally contribute to a household, or live self-sufficient lives.
I think there is some truth to what the writer is saying, in some aspects. I have been married for twenty-six years and raised two daughters. I have and do, contribute to what needs to be done. I can’t pretend, however, that my own wife doesn’t take up most of the household chores. In my later teenage years, I moved in with my grandparents, who by the way, were married for over six decades. Their marriage was very traditional in the sense that my grandmother did all of the housework while my grandfather ran a business and spent most of his off time working in the yard. That was certainly a relationship with an equal division of labor. It would just depend on who is defining that term. The one thing about that marriage that stands out today is that it worked. It lasted. They struggled, for sure, but in the end, they grew to be a little old man and women who appreciated each other for who they were and what qualities they brought to the marriage because of what they were. One man and one woman.
