“Feminist mystique”, ironically fails to treat women as intelligent individuals capable of making their own choices, but instead demands conformity to a “feminist norm”.

Dangerous housewives

Stay-at-home moms are a problem, all right. They think, educate their children and vote.

Mariette Ulrich

Has enough been made of theHilary Rosen "stay-home-moms-don’t-work" calamity? Maybe yes, maybe no, but as a college-educated full-time mother of seven, I am not about to let it go without comment. (I wish I could have weighed in a bit sooner, but, well, I was busy with family activities.)

Ms Rosen (pictured) took a lot of heat for her remark about Anne Romney, from all sides of the political spectrum: fellow Democrats scrambled to distance themselves; even Mrs. Obama tweeted her displeasure. Far from censuring Ms Rosen, however,the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto says she deserves thanks for being an “honest feminist”.

Taranto points out that, beginning approximately with Freud’s influence, the denigration of motherhood has been an ongoing “major theme in American culture”. If the disparagement of motherhood (especially the full-time variety) is a socio-political creed, then feminism is its prophet and the Democratic party, despite its avowals to the contrary, its church-home base.

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/dangerous_housewives