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Autumn 2007
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NEW BOOK
Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age

by Kay S. Hymowitz
Marriage and Caste in America.
Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
by Kay S. Hymowitz
Liberation's Children.
 

The New Girl Order
Kay S. Hymowitz

Selected Responses:

Sent by B. Brisket on 11-28-2007:

The new culture celebrates female narcissism in a way unthinkable for males. Future commentators will look back at this time as one utterly indulgent to a generation of women. However much a man's world it was in 1960, men were never culturally free to place their self interest ahead of the interest of the society to which they belonged. Women today are taught that their greatest duty is to themselves, that their own personal happiness is paramount. It is a system swung out of balance, an overreaction to the limits of the past spurred on by technological changes and economic incentives. Centuries of traditional cultures are being swept away in the blink of an eye and are being replaced by an unsustainable hedonism, an explosion of individualism unchecked by any sense of responsibility. The severing of ties to the past and the rejection of responsibility for the future is how cultures end. I really don’t think Girl Power in the long run will fair very well against Islam.

Sent by Mike on 10-15-2007:

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that liberal feminism is a demographic dead end. The new girl order will eventually become the old maids club. Without a doubt the new girl order is going to end up on the trash heap of history.

Sent by Mary on 10-15-2007:

Wonderfully written and researched piece! Perhaps you have found the answer to end the age-old inequality present in marriage for the female partner. Females need to exercise the right to delay or never marry. We need to insist on female-friendly policies to allow both childbearing and career growth.

Sent by David Harris on 10-15-2007:

With enough female liberation, we can drive the birth rate
down to zero and wipe out the entire human race. But before
then, we can hope to not starve as we run short of people to
make things and grow our food. O brave new (dead) world,
that has no people in it!

 

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