Feminists fought for decades to help girls succeed, but they overshot the goal. They crossed the finish line and then hit the gas and drove the car right off the cliff. The early feminists who wanted women to be treated as equals under the law would spin in their graves if they saw where their descendants have gone.
We can all agree that voting and equal rights for all people, including women, are good. However, “equality” and “feminism” are now just weasel words obfuscating nasty outcomes for your innocent daughters. The kindly, maternal figure of the traditional grandmother has been swallowed whole by the wolf—and she/they plans to eat you next. Too many of America’s boomer grandmothers are more likely to teach their granddaughters to make “My Body My Choice” signs than how to bake a pie. Grandmother, what sharp curettes you have!
In every way, the term “women’s rights” has been warped and hollowed out, a total misnomer, like one of those hilariously euphemistic government names for bad laws.
Your “right” to be treated equally quickly turned into your “right” to demand an abortion at nine months, your “right” to brag on social media about your lucrative career in socially acceptable sex work, and your “right” to be one of hundreds of jilted girls ghosted by a single male user on Tinder.
Somehow, along the way to making our lives easier, feminists made them harder. They set out to allow women to have more fulfilling lives, but our lives became less fulfilling. We were supposed to be happier with all these “freedoms,” and yet, rates of depression and suicide among young women have never been higher. Liberation from the pressure to get married and have children was supposed to free us to grow old unencumbered and living in a paradise of independence.
Instead, older women have skyrocketing rates of depression. White women over the age of 45 have the highest rate of antidepressant use. “Older white women account for 58 percent of adults who have used antidepressants for at least five years.”
Where is the happiness feminism promised them? Where is the thrill that childlessness and no-fault divorce guaranteed? Can’t all those cats cheer them up?
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