<p>this is such an amazing book. please go read it</p>
<p>Lololololololololololol.</p>
<p>The Problem That Has No Name.</p>
<p>There was a picture of the lady who wrote it (holding up a copy) in my APUSH book. She has grandma hair.</p>
<p>^ um, okay? anyway, it is an amazing book, every female should be required to read it, honestly. at least pick it up and read the first chapter.</p>
<p>I think I’ll go with no.</p>
<p>okay blondie, now you are starting to be annoying</p>
<p>Are YOU a girl?</p>
<p>I think The Feminine Mystique has several issues.</p>
<p>Which would explain why bendy likes it…</p>
<p>Yes, I am a girl.</p>
<p>This Book Is Biased.</p>
<p>Only Angela Davis can solve.
Or Judith Butler.
Or Michel Foucault.</p>
<p>I agree that every girl should read this. Don’t worry, it’s not a tiresome tirade against men. It’s well-written and well-researched. My favorite chapter was “The Sexual Sell,” which described the media’s role in elevating housewifery to a “career” — simultaneously amusing and disturbing. A lot of it (thankfully) is no longer relevant to women in 2006, but it’s a valuable warning against the attitudes that gave rise to “the problem with no name.”</p>
<p>^ wow you’re the first female to respons semi-positively to this book. thanks. i have to admit i haven’t finished it, but almost! it’s so good. i do think some of it still applies today, but that’s depending on many things. for the most part we live in a differnet world.</p>
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True … thank God. Girls today have more privileges and opportunities than ever before, and it’s so easy to take them for granted. That’s why this book is still important. I like the quote from the NY Times Book Review on the cover of my edition: “Changed the world so comprehensively that it’s hard to remember how much change was called for.”</p>
<p>I think people are reluctant to read it because the concept of “feminisim” has acquired a lot of negative connotations, which is really a shame.</p>
<p>Yes, so true. A “feminist” by many standards conjures up the image of a woman who doesn’t wear a bra or shave her legs, and whose true desire is to steal the male organ for herself. </p>
<p>But, you know, it’s interesting reading the book especially since I’m 17 and I too have to think about my future. Sometimes I do think, oh I want to get married and have kids and how will that fit with being a lawyer? I still hear some of my friends say stuff like that.</p>
<p>I worry about the same issue constantly. I think that balancing work and family is much more of an issue for women than for men. Fortunately, employers have become more enlightened in recent years with policies like maternity leave, but it seems to me that moms usually sacrifice more in their careers than dads.</p>
<p>I’m so torn. Sometimes I think, “Pshaw, I don’t need a family to complete my identity! I’m an independent woman, blah blah, etc. etc.” On the other hand, whenever I’m walking near my house, I inevitably pass about 10 strollers and think, “OMG, babies are SO CUTE!!! I want some!” Damn biological instincts, screwing up my rational, ambitious career plans …</p>
<p>Haha, I know! It’s cool to talk to someone who gets it! And I always feel bad for those women who are like 45 yrs old, never married, never had kids. I’m sure they had good lives, but I can’t help feeling bad for them, and then I get scared I might end up like that? I think I’ll be find, I alreayd know that finding a husband is not going to be a priority for me, at least I dont want it to be.</p>
<p>I have the same attitude. If I find someone and we want to get married and have a family, great. If not, thats cool, too Ill have more time to travel and pursue my own interests. It astounds me to think that option #2 has only been a viable choice for women since about 50 years ago! I suspect we both would have been miserable before the era of feminism, when marriage, not education, was the foremost goal in a womans life.</p>
<p>My mom has female friends in their 40s and 50s whove never had kids and are perfectly content. (Some of them are married, too.) So its definitely possible to be happy and child-free. Unfortunately, I know my mom will freak out if I dont have kids. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>This book only applies to middle class womyn.</p>
<p>The book’s very well written, just like Ayn Rand’s Anthem, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ideas in there are good or that I agree with them.</p>
<p>lol I was betty freidan for the living museum in elementary school… I was so jealous of Marilyn Monroe… brings back painful memories.</p>