It gets really old and admittedly quite disgusting to see modern-day “conservatives” consistently bashing “empowered” women and “feminists” when I’ve witnessed them over and over practically spitting on housewives. They are just as guilty if not more so of training their daughters to focus on college and careers and of taking women’s traditional rights and protections away from them. Women as a class are no longer protected in law as the weaker and fairer sex, and modern women as a by-product do not consider themselves nor their sexuality precious. They also don’t seek to depend on men because they can’t.
Would “conservatives” ever dream of requiring, as a matter of law, that a man financially support his lawful wife- or do they buy into the feminist perspective that a woman staying home is an issue of personal bargaining and “choice” between spouses? Can a woman expect to depend on a man in marriage and be safe doing so? No. That right has long been stripped away from her, and every year that passes “conservatives” only seek to chip away at what little bit still exists even further.
So, I’d really like to know what these modern-day “conservatives” expect from women. If women are tough, callous, have deeper voices than their female ancestors and no longer speak softly,[i] and are gung-ho over a career, then maybe it’s because society leaves them absolutely no other choice. Women today are forced to “man up” and- quite literally- be men. Most are forced, even if they don’t want to, to fight their own battles, pay their own bills, make their own way, and even forego marriage and children. It’s called simple survival in a world that leaves no other alternative.
[i] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180612-the-reasons-why-womens-voices-are-deeper-today
B. A. Hunter 