Feminism and poor women
by Greg Krehbiel on 4 March 2013
This article — Review: Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ is full of good intentions but rife with contradictions — makes me suspect you could make a lot of headway arguing that modern feminism is a hobby for rich, entitled white women.
-- 2013-03-04 » Greg Krehbiel
5 March 2013 @ 8:27 am
You’ve heard me say this a dozen times before, but I’ll say it again anyway: go into any semi-skilled manufacturing environment or large-scale service operation and ask the women there whether if they had a choice, they’d prefer to stay there, or go lead lives of quiet desperation running a household and ensuring that their children are watched over by family members with enough free time to deal with their problems, rather than help hired at $2 above minimum. You’d get both answers, but those who took choice B wouldn’t merely be a tiny contingent of brainwashed Stepfords — there would be a significant minority if not a majority.
But because the women with the brains, specific gifts, and personality to make a living writing books and articles get to tell the story, we get sold this hogwash narrative about liberation, and an entire culture gets fooled about what women collectively “want.”