2010 September 23
Margaret Hoover is a great example of how feminism has confused the hell out of modern women — and therefore, men. Last night, Hoover was on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss this week’s Newsweek cover, entitled “Man Up.” The point of the article is to highlight how women’s roles have changed over the past several decades while men’s have not. Its message is that men in America haven’t changed enough to accommodate the feminist ideal and thus don’t do their fair share at home.
To make the article sound balanced (a big feat for the folks at Newsweek), it was written by two men. Yes, indeed, the editors of Newsweek found two feminist-inspired men to do their dirty work for them. I’m sure it wasn’t hard to do. Feminized men are everywhere — and, as Margaret Hoover demonstrates time and again on The O’Reilly Factor, even conservative women support the feminization of America.
Add it all up and you have an entire generation of men and women — on the left and the right – who’ve been brainwashed by feminist dogma. Those who watch O’Reilly know that two of his regular contributors include fellow “culture warriors” Gretchen Carlson and Margaret Hoover. Carlson is great: she’s sensible, fair, and smart. She’s also 44 years old and a parent. Margaret Hoover, on the other hand, is 33 years old and not a parent. Thus, there’s a colossal difference in the way these two women view the world.
I don’t know whether Gretchen Carlson identifies with feminism or not; it doesn’t come through loud and clear either way. Hoover, however, is a raging feminist. Whenever the subject of women’s roles is broached, she takes the standard feminist line that women get the bad end of the deal and that men are prone to dominate women if given the opportunity.
She clearly thinks feminism has put up the proper barriers to keep this scenario at bay.
O’Reilly played his favorite role during last night’s discussion about feminism: he was acerbic and refused to take the subject seriously by pretending to be a Neanderthal. Whether he is a Neanderthal or not only his wife knows — but my best guess is that he’s not. I think he’s merely playing the part to get viewers riled up.
Gretchen Carlson doesn’t bite — she understands O’Reilly’s style and has no personal stake in whether he’s a Neanderthal or not. Could care less. But for Hoover it is personal. Not only is she clueless about how life unfolds once children enter the equation (Hoover is married but has no kids), she is young enough to fall for O’Reilly’s bait. She plays right into his hands by demonstrating her feminist bias.
Are you uncomfortable with the changing role of genders in our society? Women in the workplace, women not at home… ” she asks O’Reilly. (Yes, he says. He is.) “So you’re saying you’re a little like, good old-school sexism?” (Yes, he says. He is.) “Look, this article is for men who are comfortable with their masculinity, who don’t think it’s a threat that women are suddenly…” (O’Reilly cuts her off again.) “I know you’re a macho guy, Bill, but I do think there is, in our changing society, still… (She gets cut off again…)In chimes Carlson who asks O’Reilly whether or not he changed any diapers when his kids were little — to which O’Reilly says yes.
“Well,” says Carlson, “so then you ‘manned up.’”She then highlights a supposed statistic from the Newsweek article which says that in homes where both parents work, “the woman still does the load of the domestic responsibilities and spends 400 percent more time with the children. ”
Unfortunately, O’Reilly ended the segment there. Even if he hadn’t, though, the folks at FOX would not have challenged this claim — not because they’re biased but because they simply don’t know the facts. Women on the left have ruled the roost for decades and refuse to allow the truth to come forth. Without digging deep, how would the producers know?
Of course they could have dug deep; and if they had, what they’d learn is that the notion that wives and mothers work harder shifts than husbands and fathers is bogus. Feminists argue that women’s roles have changed dramatically (true enough, but so have men’s) and that, in so doing, they now take on two jobs: they are employed, plus they take on the lion’s share of child care and housekeeping.
Men, they say, have just continued with what they’ve always done — with perhaps a bit more diaper changing and grocery shopping.
In fact, husbands and wives both work hard — just in different locales, which a nationwide study first proved almost twenty years ago. In the Journal of Economic Literature, it was reported that while women perform roughly 17 more hours of work inside the home per week, men do about 22 more hours of work outside the home per week (including commuting time). When the hours of the average woman were compared to the hours of the average man both inside and outside the home, hers amounted to 56 hours — and his to 61.
Indeed, the average married mother works only 26 hours per week outside the home, while the average man works 48 hours. But articles like Newsweek want Americans to believe that women get short-shrifted, as of they’re doing the exact same thing men are — and then some. They are not.
Much to feminists’ dismay, women continue to opt for part-time work outside the home in order to be a strong presence in their children’s lives. What’s more, they like it that way — and so do their husbands! It is only feminists — and the women they’ve indoctrinated, many of whom are conservative, such as Ms. Hoover — who believe otherwise and bring their misguided notions to the public sphere.
The result, as Warren Farrell points out in his excellent book, The Myth of Male Power, is that women are viewed as victims of a supposed patriarchy and thus become “angry,” which in turn fuels “the divorce rate, which deepens the anger, which…”
And that’s just the beginning of the female left’s dreadful effect on American society.
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