Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women

Feminism promises so much but delivers only tragedy. After years of people living feminism 's lie, there is beginning to be some voices of reason speaking up. Christine Sommers is a distinguished professor of philosophy. She says feminists have done great harm to every institution of America. She presents a powerful scholarly reasoned attack on the bankruptcy of feminism in her book Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women. In her chapter on journalism she spends several pages on how feminists like Ellen Goodman have created a chilly atmosphere at the Boston Globe with lawsuits against men working there.

In the area of education she writes, "Campus feminists have made the American campus a less happy place, having successfully browbeaten a once outspoken and free faculty." She gives specific stories of what Rush Limbaugh calls femi-nazis have done. They control campuses. I hope our university keeps them out as if they are the plague -- because they are a plague. One of the main points I want to make in this book is that the 19th century had a masculine atmosphere and the 20th is feminine. The 19th was a patriarchy and the 20th is a matriarchy. It may seem that men are in power, but the tone and direction has been led by women. Men progressively gave up power in the 19th century culminating in the vote. Since then women have progressively become like men, and men have been castrated. Father talks about women leading men in America all the time. Men, he says, are timid.

Tocqueville 's keen insights

Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic for good reason. He gave deep insights about America that we can learn from today. He perceptively saw, as he traveled around America in the early 19th century, that if America adopted the deadly ideology of "mixing" men and women in business we would become a nation of "weak men and disorderly women." Sadly this has happened. Listen carefully to his breathtaking eloquence: "There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things -- their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women."

I can't believe how beautifully he writes the truth. All this incessant talk of equality by feminists is just a ploy to make men and women "alike." In the end, feminism is a world of unisex androgyny -- a sick spiritual atmosphere of men who are weak and women who are so out of order that you couldn't find the traditional feminine characteristic of delicacy if you put them under a microscope. Father and Mother show true masculinity and femininity. Women are tomboys, and men are gutless wonders who busy themselves with secondary pursuits. Women cut men's balls off, and men helped. Then men went crazy and now we have a bunch of confused little boys. Some men have even degenerated into househusbands.

Men in former times were more in order than today. Tocqueville praises the America he saw for not having weak men and disorderly women. He appreciates America for not only using distinct division of labor in industry, but between men and women as well: "It is not thus that the Americans understand that species of democratic equality which may be established between the sexes. They admit that as nature has appointed such wide differences between the physical and moral constitution of man and woman, her manifest design was to give a distinct employment to their various faculties; and they hold that improvement does not consist in making beings so dissimilar do pretty nearly the same things, but in causing each of them to fulfill their respective tasks in the best possible manner. The Americans have applied to the sexes the great principle of political economy which governs the manufacturers of our age, by carefully dividing the duties of man from those of woman in order that the great work of society may be the better carried on ...."

He concludes his book by saying that because American women are truly feminine, America is prospering: "As for myself, I do not hesitate to avow that although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: to the superiority of their women." He wouldn 't say that today. Father has more insight into America than Tocqueville ever had and he says over and over how men are weak and women are disorderly.

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