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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Rebecca Hagelin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Enlightened - and Joyful - Women
by Rebecca Hagelin
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The ugly face of female oppression is all around us. But the source might surprise you.

Females are favored on college campuses for scholarships and sports, so it's not educational opportunity that we lack. In fact, female co-eds now dominate universities in both numbers and in special programs available to them.

With plenty of government grants for businesses run by women, we've got advantages there too. And there are innumerable labor laws that protect women in the workforce from discrimination.

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It's obviously not the modern American male that is oppressing women. A growing majority of men are so careful not to offend that many of them don't even open doors or compliment women anymore. Many men are scared to treat women like ladies - let alone deny them opportunity - for fear that the bitter voice of feminism will rise up and call them bigots.

The culprit of today's female oppression and unhappiness? That same bitter feminism that causes many men to no longer treat women as different and more refined than their own burly gender. A segment of women and those who drink their kool-aid are oppressing other women - and their major target is our daughters.

Visit virtually any college campus and you will find "women's studies" classes that wave the flag of victimization and promote gender warfare. They are filled with hippie-generation professors who seek to convince female students that having children is beneath them, that men are the enemy, that their fulfillment lies in wallowing in self-pity.

Students are pressured to attend male-bashing plays like the "Vagina Monologues". Females students who dare challenge the feminist mantra are treated with disdain by those in authority. Academia is often a world where young ladies are taught to reject their natural tendency toward femininity and to instead adopt a brusque, manly demeanor.

Oppressors of femininity also control much of the programming geared toward young women. Witness MTV and the prime-time line up where women are taught that the only way to advance in the world is to dominate and manipulate men through "sexual power". Continued...

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Rebecca Hagelin is a public speaker on the family and culture and the author of the new best seller, 30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family.
 
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enlightened and joyful women
Wow, I am very lucky to have the best of both worlds! I have a family AND a career! I consider being a successful parent, because of the character of my children...In fact, I would feel I was more successful as a parent to have a child grow up with good character than with a successful career! I am so proud of each of my children as adults, as they are wonderful people who are positives to the human race...I brought my son up to help his wife do chores, cooking, cleaning...Things get done quicker with two sets of hands doing it than one! It leaves more time for family time when all pitch in! Marriage is a PARTNERSHIP indeed! I have brought my daughters up to respect and honor their husbands...They can have a career and children as well...Why can't we have it both ways? Children are little pictures of their parents... I sure like what I see in my children, and I am grateful to have had the most wonderful husband in the world...I like what Lilly said when she said that a woman has to be prepared to survive on her own, hence the career...I have had to do just that...And I am grateful for my life, even the sad parts of it have strengthened me, and I am happy I did get a career, because little did I know, my husband would get ill when I married him! Ladies, be prepared for life, for it can take you in all sorts of directions and paths!

we're lucky
As far as I'm concerned, women in this day and age can have what we want. We want to be mothers and wives, fine, we want a career, fine. It's more open to us than to men and if women are unhappy in this environment, they need to look within.
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