"Choice Feminism" is a Sham

Feminists have always talked about how women should have the "choice" to stay home or to go to work, yet few men avail themselves of this option. Why is that?

Why should anybody give a shit anyhow when very few people have the luxury to stay home? Furthermore, the author reeks of elitism, and it is so pathetically irrelevant it would be funny if it weren't tragic.

Here we have a country that is on the verge of Third Worldom, yet we have some academic blathering on and on about how "the best" women need to aspire to male-dominated fields, go after the money, and blah, blah, blah. All the while, of course, these jobs are being eliminated or are glutted with too many people entering those fields.

I just HATE this shit, for the women in the real world of work need to organize, need to realize that their problems are the problems of workers as a whole. Nonsense about aspiring to college and getting the big bucks and ignoring women who don't go to college, who work in more traditional occupations, or who don't have the option of having rich husbands support them is why feminism gets a bad rap.

I have always believed there was only one valid criticism against feminism, and that was the one levied by minorities who claimed feminists were a bunch of college-educated, well-to-do elitists who didn't have a fucking clue and didn't care how real women in the real world lived.

They were right, and in the end this truth hurt the feminist movement in general. Compare it to the civil rights movement, which never pandered to a tiny minority of those who "made it" to the top of their fields to the exclusion of everybody else.

It's like this writer and others of her ilk are still stuck circa 1970, when the ideas of Caroline Bird took hold. Bird and those like her urged women to not bother with working in traditional female fields (after all, it was just beneath women's dignity to type, to teach, to nurse, to manage libraries, to help people, and all of the rest). Instead, women were urged to go "where the men were" because, after all, that's where the money was. Although it wasn't Bird's fault for not being able to foresee a future where millions of high-paid jobs in blue-collar, white-collar, and pink-collar fields would be eliminated, her ideas did a lot of damage and continue to do a lot of damage.