"Passionate Housewives," pt 9

The Invasion of the Baby Snatchers

French author and feminist Simone de Beauvoir warned her fellow feminists that if they were to be successful in their agenda, they must destroy “maternity and maternity instincts” in women.  She went on to say:

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home and 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.”

Authorized?  So rather than be chained to our stoves, as we’re accused of being, we’ll be chained to our typewriters – or worse yet, we’ll be chained to someone else’s typewriter?

American critic and memoirist Vivian Gornick had similar plans for women:

“Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession… The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn’t be.  The heart of radical feminism is to change that.”

So the proponents of “choice” once again want to give us no choice but theirs!