“Freemales”?
Some women regret their abortions and are speaking out to help others. Some women regret their indoctrination into a feminist ideology that turned out to be false and damaging.
They’re speaking out, too.
I never thought I would be saying this, but being a free woman isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Is that the rustle of taffeta I hear as the suffragettes turn in their graves? Possibly. My mother was a hippy who kept a pile of (dusty) books by Germaine Greer and Erica Jong by her bed (like every good feminist, she didn’t see why she should do all the cleaning). She imbued me with the great values of choice, equality and sexual liberation. I fought with my older brother and won; at university I beat the rugby lads at drinking games. I was not to be messed with.
Now, nearly 37, those same values leave me feeling cold. I want love and children but they are nowhere to be seen. I feel like a UN inspector sent in to Iraq only to find that there never were any weapons of mass destruction. I was led to believe that women could “have it all†and, more to the point, that we wanted it all. To that end I have spent 20 years ruthlessly pursuing my dreams – to be a successful playwright. I have sacrificed all my womanly duties and laid it all at the altar of a career. And was it worth it? The answer has to be a resounding no.
But sharing the wisdom learned….priceless.
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What a poignant example of why it never pays top go against what’s in your heart.
As with all activist movements that achieved their original goals, the feminist movement eventually became nothing more than a jobs program for angry activists and pushed their radical ideas on young, unsuspecting women across the country.
True civil rights movements promote truths that are written on the human heart and encourage people to follow their true nature. That feminists would encourage women to abandon motherhood is disgraceful.