One to One: Stephanie Coontz

[@cate1657]

It's interesting that Friedan's thinking, at the time, wasn't able to recognize that "the problem that has no name" was, in fact, the manipulation of women and the options available to them in their lives. The "problem" was the social construct that was intentionally put into place solely for the benefit of males--the work of household chores, shopping, cooking, raising of children (and all of the incredible detail that all entails) that women did, and still do the majority of, was not only free labor, it all fully enabled men to have higher social status, professions, careers and jobs, as it's always done. When Friedan wrote her book, men were advantaged by a system that had already been put together thousands of-years before (patriarchy) that literally disallowed women from inventing, being educated or participating in putting together a society geared to female needs and desires. If anyone is interested, read Gerda Lerner's "The Creation of Patriarchy" (1987).

[@brandonmacey964]

Yikes is that Botox eye twitch or what? Somethings NEVER change