I’ll cop to being a “feminist.” But I’ve been wondering over the last few years why we tried so hard to “pave the way” for our sisters in succeeding generations as we did. Gen Y, in particular, doesn’t seem to appreciate it. The young female workers of today seem to be dropping like flies from FT jobs once they have kids. If they can’t get the exact “flex-schedules” they want after coming off maternity leave (unreasonable in my mind and unheard of in my day), they walk. Given that most of them have varying amounts of student loan debt gathering interest by the month, it is all incredulous to me.
OTOH, employers don’t want older, very experienced workers, even though WE know how to get up in the morning and dress properly for business and actually have a work ethic when we get to the office (we don’t text and stare at our phones all day).
It seems employers would rather play games repeatedly replacing Gen Y, only to get another employee asking for 6 months of FMLA after only six months on the job!
Go figure….[/quote]
The feminists lied. We cannot “have it all.” I know a lot of beautiful and charming single, childless women in their forties who listened to the feminist propaganda, and who would now love to have a do-over because they feel their lives have been wasted. Instead of feeling fulfilled, they feel empty, alone, and used-up. They feel utterly betrayed. Too bad they only get one life.
The younger women are smart enough to look at the experiences of these women instead of following the rhetoric of the feminists who have destroyed the family unit, made women and children even more vulnerable, and denigrated the very important work that women have traditionally done. May they (collective feminists, not you personally) rot in hell. They have destroyed so many lives.
At least the feminists are self-extinguishing as fewer of them have children; and when they do, it’s often one or (maybe) two. The feminist movement cannot die soon enough.
