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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fox News Op-Ed Says Women’s Nature Is To Be Dominated By Men [View all]
By Zack Beauchamp on Dec 7, 2012 at 10:21 am
Fox News has published another sexist op-ed by Suzanne Venker, the author who became infamous for attacking a fictional War on Men. In the follow up piece, Venker argues that women are naturally mens inferiors.
The author believes the crudest of crude gender stereotypes are built into male and female brains, arguing that women like to gather and nest and take care of people while men are hunters: they like to build things and kill things. As a consequence, she maintains a mans place is in the office; his woman should simply surrender to his rule:
Women shouldnt let their success in the workplace become the biggest thing in their lives. If the ultimate goal is lasting love and lets face it: for most people it is women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation.
Surrendering to your femininity means many things. It means letting your man be the man despite the fact that youve proven youre his equal. It means recognizing the fact that you may very well want to stay home with your babies and that thats normal. Surrendering to your femininity means if you do work outside the home, you dont use your work to play tit for tat in your marriage. It means tapping into that part of yourself thats genuinely vulnerable and really does need a man even though the culture says you dont.
In other words, put down your sword. Its okay if your guys in charge. Its okay if you dont drive the car. In fact, its rather liberating.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/07/1299611/fox-news-op-ed-says-womens-nature-is-to-be-dominated-by-men/?mobile=nc