USA (no{at}thanks.com) writes:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:45:10 -0500, Viking  wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:06:40 GMT, "MCP"

>>wrote:
>>
>>> But modern woman has taken a reality check. The average 29-year-old
>>>now hankers for a return to the lifestyle of a 1950s housewife. The
>>>daughters of the "Cosmo" generation of feminists want
nothing more than
>>>a happy marriage and domestic bliss in the countryside, according to a
>>>survey.
>>
>>Well that's just great. Misguided feminism, like Marxism, ruins an
>>entire generation. Then says, "Oh, we were misguided," which anyone
>>could have seen from the beginning, and dies. Meanwhile, an entire
>>generation destroyed. Just great.
>
> Feminism has ruined at least two entire generations.  The early Baby
> Boomers (1945 to 1952) are the ones who were the biggest pain in the
> ass.  Those are the ones who followed every kooky hippy "leader"
> including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan.  These are the woman who
> flooded the market with cheap female labor (to "find themselves) which
> resulted in wages being driven down.
>
> The second wave of Boomers (1953 to 1964) were the first group to reap
> the weeds the early group sowed.  By about 1970 feminism had so
> totally screwed up the economy of the US that it was no longer
> possible for most married couples to live on just one salary.  Women
> who didn't want to work now found that they *had* to work.  Of course,
> some women in this second wave were also wacko feminist followers who
> wanted a "real" career but many women in that group wanted exactly
> what the current female 20 somethings indicate they want -- a normal
> family lifestyle.
>
> The next generation (the current females being discussed here) was
> raised by a babysitter, or in a daycare center while their mothers
> worked which was hardly the ideal way to raise children but I don't
> know that this group is entirely destroyed.  It seems they have looked
> at their dismal childhoods and decided to speak up and say they want
> something better for their children -- that is, a return to 1950's
> lifestyles.
>
> Unfortunately I don't believe the financial structure of the US
> economy has ever recovered from the blow the early female Boomers
> dealt it.  For that reason it might not be possible to turn back the
> clock at this time.

Good analysis. I would add that the US' current economic difficulties,
starting with a massive and endemic federal deficit ( Sidebar: In
order to keep those deficits going, the US has to borrow the money, just
as if you were earning 50K, but spending 65K, you'd have to get the
extra 15K from somewhere/one; so it issues bonds and people and
organisations buy them. Not a few are held off shore, so that, say,
if China gets too bothered by the US' demands on Taiwan, or dumping
laws, or intellectual property, China can dump bonds, and watch the
US get a whole new pile of debt trouble: No new money to float the
ongoing deficits. ), and moving to personal debt/savings ratios,
suggests that present day prosperity is heavily due to unsound credit,
and when that bill starts to come in... not good, and not good for
those with the most to lose... the middle class, whose wages aren't
exactly skyrocketing upwards even now.

So, with all that, starting with the dump of cheap and unneeded
labour into the 70s stagflation markets, Feminism has a lot to
answer for, not only for the women who choices were *reduced* in
the last 30-40 years, but for the women who might, as a group,
not even get the glimmer of that choice, in the future, when
one wage definitely won't get a family anything more than a cheap
cold water flat.

Oh, add to that thrity years of women's spendings on gewgaws,
from jewlery, to feminised vehicles ( SUVs, anyone ? ), to a
whole host of other junk, that accounts not a little for women
being the ependers of 85% of all discretionary cunsumer spending,
and you can see that that money haveing been effectively thrown
away by those women, would be a sum that would heartily dwarf
the S&L Bailout scandal, of a decade ago.

Imagine if some of that loot had been saved for their futures,
rather than on junk to have more bling, bling...

Andre


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" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
                                    The Man Prayer, Red Green.


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