Hegemonic Feminism

May 19, 2002

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by Edward E. Bartlett, Ph.D.

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Psychologists have come up with a new epithet to describe men who
are too macho: "hegemonic masculinity." Like other concepts of
new-age psychology, psychologists can't really define "hegemonic
masculinity," but with a knowing smile, they say it has something
to do with the way that alpha males impose their way of thinking
on others.

So let's put the shoe on the other foot. Let's look at some
statements by feminists on the topic of marriage and
child-rearing:

"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to 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." -- Simone de Beauvoir, quoted
in The Saturday Review, June 14, 1974, p. 18

"You become a semi-nonperson when you get married." -- Gloria
Steinem

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of
contempt for women's bodies." -- Andrea Dworkin

Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that
the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this
institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the
abolition of marriage." -- Sheila Cronan

"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." -- Vivian Gornick, University of Illinois, "The
Daily Illini," April 25, 1981

"The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition
for the liberation of women." -- from "The Declaration of
Feminism," November 1971

"In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away
from families and communally raise them." -- Dr. Mary Jo Bane,
associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research
on Women

In the above statements, feminist leaders characterize housewives
as "non-persons" who are in an "illegitimate profession."

Both Simone de Beauvoir and Vivian Gornick explicitly call for
removing women's "choice" to be a homemaker. Two women forcefully
call for "the abolition of marriage" and "the end of the
institution of marriage." And Mary Jo Bane advocates the removal
of children from their mothers and fathers.

It is important to note that these feminists are not merely
advocating that women should have the option to pursue a career.
Rather, they denigrate women who want to get married and demonize
the concept of marriage.

In short, they are advocating the elimination of women's choice
to become a wife and mother. That's hegemonic feminism.

Edward E. Bartlett, Ph.D

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Edward Bartlett is the administrator of
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If two people love each other, why doo we need the law to keep
them together, when they can divorce anyway? The only benefactors
are the courts and the lawyers.

Children should be raised communally. Each community should have
disneyland-like care centers where children can be raised by
professional caregivers, and be allowed to play in a fantasy
world with other children. They do not want to play with their
parents. Get over yourself people. They want to play with people
their own age.

Parents would be able to pick them up and drop them off any time
they wanted.

That is how to break the cycles of abuse, and the cycles of
alcoholism, and all the other baggage we pass on to our children,
and they take to the bar with them.

Women work at a job, look after kids, clean house, drive them to ball,
take Prosac, get therapy, get MISERABLE AND BITCHY AS HELL, because
their burden is too great, and take it out on everyone else, making
society, this living hell, and these things we call family units,
dysfunctional war zones.