"1% Wives Are Helping Kill Feminism and Make the War on Women Possible"

Such was the title of a recent article in the Atlantic. An excerpt:

I am going to smack the next idiot who tells me that raising her children full time -- by which she really means going to Jivamukti classes and pedicure appointments while the nanny babysits -- is her feminist choice. Who can possibly take feminism seriously when it allows everything, as long as women choose it? ... Let's please be serious grown-ups: real feminists don't depend on men. Real feminists earn a living, have money and means of their own.

In her view financial independence seems to be the essence of feminism. Strange then how not just those in marriage relationships but rather all of society is interdependent in so many ways - not just financially.

Her assertions that housewives never do anything around the house, just living in the lap of luxury reminded me of a quote from Slate that I've cited before:

Despite the popular notion that most mothers who don’t work outside the home are mostly wealthy elites, stay-at-home moms actually tend to be less educated and poorer than the rest of mothers, as we learned from recent census numbers.

Given that Elizabeth Wurtzel seems to think that allowing most women to make their own choices is a bad thing, wouldn't it be fair to make the following assertions? Real feminists are anti-choice. Real feminists believe in ignoring female voices. To quote Simone de Beauvoir:

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.

That statement was made back in 1975 but the same sentiment lives on today in Wertzel's article. As I mentioned last week, women still seem to want to make such a choice and, thanks to de Beauvoir and Wurztel, society has been structured in such a fashion so as to make that choice less feasible for most women. The end result of having taken feminist's advice that the choices of women are not to be trusted? Not too surprisingly, female happiness is in decline.