Did the "Feminism" and "Womens' Liberation" movement of the 1970s help or hurt women, families and society?

[RingOfFire]

After the "Feminism" and "Women's Liberation" movements of the 1970s took hold expectations of women changed from being the homemakers to being the homemakers AND to going out and getting jobs. Now they are expected to do BOTH.

Are they really better off now?

And are families AND SOCIETY really better off? Before that movement, there was always a parent at home with the kids. There was a better sense of cohesion and family life was more central to the culture. And the traditional family unit is the building block of any society.

Life was never idyllic. It has been difficult since the dawn of mankind (or am I supposed to say "peoplekind" 🙄). But having lived in both eras I have to say that it seems to me that today's society has a very distinct loss of purpose, civility and direction compared to that of my youth. And the demarcation point between the two societies was the arrival of these movements in the 1970s.

[DextroShade]

Feminism has been one of the biggest disasters in human history. All the traditions around monogamy were not designed to oppress women but to ensure that regular common men had access to sex and reproduction; before these traditions most of the women only had sex with a small number of high-status men. You can see this distribution still play out in the animal kingdom, where males will compete and the winner gets ALL the females while all the other males get NOTHING. Monogamy allowed the development of civilization by giving the vast majority of men who would otherwise be sexless a reason to contribute, because almost no guy wants to contribute to a society that expects him to die a virgin. Women weren't any more oppressed being a wives than they were as concubines, and were probably less oppressed. There is a reason that all the most successful civilizations in human history followed this model: it works.

Now with feminism undoing monogamy society is sliding back into the winner take all system we had before with a small minority of men getting the majority of women, with the rest getting left out in the cold. 1 in 3 men are now sexless and that number is rising

What few family units are formed are in a precarious position because women are incentivized by no-fault divorce and feminist family court systems to wreck their homes, and many are doing so with 3 in 4 divorces initiated by women. Children raised without a father do worse in life by every metric that we can measure, and the vast majority of mass shooters, criminals, homeless, drug addicts, and suicides come from single mother households.

To top it all off, feminism also destroyed the power of labor by flooding the market with extra workers who would otherwise be at home caring for their children, which has driven down wages and diminished the power of the workers.

There is nothing that feminism has contributed to society that even comes close to making up for all the serious and existential problems it has caused.

[inhua]

oh it definitely helped women for sure

now women can be just as bad as men

and show their true colors

actions always speak louder than words

great decision making

yet men are still expected to fix their problems

but yeah since women are now equal to men, they ought to take the same responsibilities as men instead pointing the finger at men

[Anonymous]

Well, let's see...

- Studies show that women are objectively less happy today than at any time in recorded history. Google the "paradox of declining female happiness" or the "female happiness paradod" for details.

- Since feminism pushed women into the workforce, the economy has fully adjusted to the two-income-household model so even the women who would prefer to be home being real mothers to their children (and there are many of them) can't afford to.

- Studies show the majority of mothers with children under age 18 wish they could be home being real mothers to their children rather than working their lives away so they can pay someone else to raise their children for them.

- The ever widening divide between the sexes that feminism has created makes both sexes miserable.

- Feminism set out to destroy the nuclear family, and they have been very successful in that quest. Society as a whole has been irreparably harmed by that.

- Feminism convinced women that casual sex is empowering and fathers are optional, which has resulted in an astronomical increase in fatherless children. Only in recent years have studies been done to show how incredibly harmful that has been to children, male and female, and society as a whole.

Thanks, feminism.

The list goes on and on. Feminism has done so much more harm than good to western society, but most women still won't acknowledge that because they know if makes them culpable in the impending demise of western society.

[RingOfFire]

Feminism is just one of the tools that the political left uses to get people to support causes that are against their own interests. They do the same thing with blacks by getting them to support movements like Black Lives Matter which is the worst thing that could happen to black people.

According to these political manipulators EVERYONE is a victim (except white men who are the root of everyone else's problem) and without their political help they will stay repressed forever. In fact these politicians are the very people who KEEP them repressed.

Democrats capitalize on ignorance to fool minorities and women into voting against their own interests.

[Opinion Owner]

Agreed

[WindAtMyBack]

Most people during that time thought feminism was a total joke. Nobody took it seriously because it wasn't needed. It was one small side show that few people paid any attention to.

I hung out with large numbers of people who would have been considered VERY liberal at the time. None of them bought into feminism.

Not once did I ever hear a girl who came of age in the 60s or 70s complain about her lot in life. They didn't buy into feminism because they knew it wasn't needed. Girls in high school and college did much the same thing as the guys did - not entirely, but mostly. If there was any difference in the number of girls and guys going to college, it wasn't noticeable.

Yes, a lot got into traditional marriages. But a heck of a lot didn't. There were no barrier to doing otherwise. Feminist claim they are the reason for that. I call BS because the feminists claim credit for something that had already happened.

In short, the so-called second wave of feminism was just not needed. It was a non-issue about a non-issue.

[Jersey2]

I fully believe that women were just as happy or happier 50 years ago than today. Hysteria by the far Left has made today’s women think it was horrible when it was as good or better. They should ask their elders vs swallow the nonsense that teachers tell them.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I don't believe in blame feminism for ish, it's a cop out and placing blame to disregard personal responsibility.

A man or woman that desire to have a home and family will have it as they will make it their focus.

Men and women that desire to whore around will reap the consequences of their actions later in life.

[genericname85]

absolutely. feminism was never a movement in favor of women. it was always a movement lead by and for the female outliers of society.

[CuriousMufuxka]

Neither. Real women don't need 3rd wave bullshit to rely upon. Lol, peoplekind :P

[gothbxtch]

help.

[RingOfFire]

Gee I am just shocked that you think so! 😂