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I mean, wow.
Per Ms. Marisa, Megan O’Rourke on sociologists screwing the pooch. Would seem to be a worthy contender for Team Dowd, except for O’Rourke’s attempt at judiciousness in the final grafs. Bum fucking title, though. Kicker, too. Additionally, the caveat revealed in paragraph two negates everything, for me: “Based on Surveys conducted between 1992 and 1994.” 1992, as you know, was a HUGE social turning point for American women–not just feminists–and even by ’94, we still hadn’t fully calcified from the upheavals of the Clinton election and the Clarence Thomas hearings. In ’94, the fountain of (often bestselling) feminist texts were still emerging. The “heterophobia”/Antioch “Is This Ok?”* clause hadn’t even dropped. Not sure how it impacts the conclusions, per se, but by using over 10-year-old statistics, we’re not getting a complete enough view to be able to gauge how hetero marriages are affected today. Also, I hope Ms. O’Rourke is just teasing out the data here:
Feminist ideals, not domestic duties, seem to be what make wives morose. Progressive married women—who should be enjoying some or all of the fruits that Freidan lobbied for—are less happy, it would appear, than women who live as if Friedan never existed.
As a feminist in my late 20s who wants kids, a career, AND a marriage or stable long-term partnership (and maybe a formal education, too), I am getting REALLY fucking sick of “sociologists” and op-ed columnists trying to tell me that none of these things are possible at once. I’ve got one chance to do it, and I’m going to, even if I’m 52 and injecting fertility drugs like it’s cocoa puffs.
* Is This OK? = Name of my coming-of-age prog band, 2001-2003, RIP