another bike date... he neglected to mention...

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From latelate, "I feel that putting down the role of "only" mother & homemaker is an area where many modern feminists went wrong."

It's my belief that the early modern feminists got pushed into the corner and had to do that to "prove" that women were serious about work. My mom tried to go back to work in the late 60s/early 70s when my brother and I were teens. She was uniformly told (by uniformly male potential employers) that she didn't have the experience, the ability or the interest ("obvious" since she'd been out of the workforce for so long) in the work she was applying for. It was shameful, and it was what the feminists at the time were up against. It was the guys who started the stupid "only a homemaker" line, and unfortunately some feminists got sucked into it.

Sounds like we're of the same mind on this. The point of feminism to me is to ensure women have the freedom to pursue the work/home balance that's right for them . . . and are given equal respect no matter what direction they choose.

Cathy