The women’s movement has changed America tremendously. From the days of the traditional family unto now, the state of gender roles, child rearing, and overall social behavior are part of a chain reaction in America that few people can connect with or will even acknowledge exist. The connection is a simple matter of observing cultural change over time, and acknowledging the reaction to the changes is a matter of admitting the truth. This article will address the cause and effects of cultural change in America brought on by the women’s movement.
During the heated times of the Civil Rights movement for Blacks, women took advantage of this heat to escape the heat of the kitchen. Not to say that women stood on the backs of the Black cause and voiced their own concerns, but it was during this time they decided that if Civil and equal rights for Blacks became a national issue, why should they not capitalize on these rights also while they are giving them out.
White males must have been in total disarray during this period of social upheaval because they were losing control of the only two things that gave them a sense of power. Women expressed their dissatisfaction with their roles as housewives and mothers and proclaimed their desire for independency as individuals and in the workforce. They also made more explicit expressions of a sexual nature by redefining themselves as not mere sex objects while at the same time bearing their chest.
This statement led to women resenting being treated as women in the traditional sense and instead required them to be treated as equals to men, in most instances. Mainly in issues pertaining to equal pay and job choice, however, many women today hold to the standard of a man being a gentleman as a top qualifier on their list of desirables.
This requirement was not a difficult one for men to meet; the problem came when women wanted men to be more feminine in behavior, as in more sensitive and caring. They want a sensitive and caring man yet rugged and aggressive, and many men try living up to these demands. The attempt is at most confusing by nature because either a man is one maybe two and never the other.
Women say they can do the jobs men do but when it comes time to lift a 90-pound box they naturally turn to find a man. Double standard? Yes. They wanted independence but at the same time collect alimony and child support. Double standard? Yes. Not only do they want the perks after a bad marriage, but some then enter the dating scene and expect a man to pay, contribute, and shower them. Others decide to remain independent but they naturally look for the gentleman type.
Now that women have gotten what they asked for, the number of day cares throughout the nation has tripled and then some over the past 30 years. To women that did not mind living the role of the traditional wife and mother this movement has had a rebound effect. Many women are forced into the single lifestyle and parenthood because pressures from peers and Hollywood place them in positions of life regardless of their views. Unless a woman is fortunate enough to find a man who wants to support her and their children, she has no choice but to live up to the stereotype.
Unfortunately, though, single and divorced mothers who reluctantly drop their children into day cares only after a 1-month leave from work have to live with guilt sometimes unbearable for them. Not even in the animal kingdom does a mother go too long without nurturing and caring for her young. American society is not a part of the animal kingdom but we are mammals. But there is no time for that now.
Children grow feeling unloved and become aggressive in behavior and with 90 million children all feeling and acting the same way, there was bound to be a problem with today’s youth. Without a mother to wake up to and come home to and rely and depend on daily, there is naturally going to be some emotional and psychological changes in a child’s mind, and that for the worst, not the better.
So now we have, in America, a youth problem. Teen girls and boys are having children out of wedlock because marriage has been undermined by the psychology of independency and individual womanhood. Divorce rose 150% in America at the same time and rate day care facilities rose. No one can deny this connection and there is no other explanation for these changes but the absence of wives and mothers in society. It is not a chemical imbalance in the children’s brain causing ADHD; it is not that all men are dogs and pigs and see women as sex objects and maids because many men respect women and have for thousands of years supported and provided for their women.
It is because women abandoned their roles as wives and mothers and challenged man to his own game. Now we have these problems that will not go away. We have new gender roles and rules that we have to live by, which surfaced as consequences of this movement. Men have taken on the role of mothers and wives and their behavior has become feminine. Men wear earrings, makeup, and soft clothing. They work as nurses, receptionist, and elementary school teachers, all occupations once dominated by women.
There is nothing wrong with the jobs per se, the only reason they are considered feminine jobs in the first place is because they were jobs women were expected to do. Now that the times have changed men are expected to do these jobs but the labels are still there. On the other hand, the standards of typical men jobs have lowered to accommodate women, such as firemen, policemen, and military positions, have all been adjusted for feminine ability.
Notice also, that when women entered these positions, sexual harassment cases skyrocketed. This brought about change in the workforce as to what people could say and physically do in gesture. As time went by, these restrictions on words came to define racial words, handicap, homosexual, and other minority issues that were deemed sensitive to discuss. Lawsuits soon followed and a crack in the justice system opened up to frivolous claims on every end of American life as it pertained to words and gestures.
Do not misunderstand the focus here, women are not considered the blame for these cultural shocks to America, but from the sociological perspective, one has to notice that there is a pattern following from the up-rise of the women’s movement. These changes can easily be compared to some changes that stemmed from the Civil Rights up-rise of Blacks in America; however, the only difference is that women were not oppressed physically and psychologically, only domestically.
The difference is huge but it seems that America has become more influenced from the women’s movement than from the Black movement. White men are more willingly to give in to the demands of white women than they are the demands of Blacks as a whole. Where we (as Blacks) fight for economic recognition, women fight for the same yet occupy more of the workforce than Blacks. Where we fight for respect as a people, women do not have to put up much of a fight against the white male because she already owns him.
Words in books, including the Bible, have been changed to reflect the female gender. He has become she and his and become hers. The feelings and emotions of the female gender has seeped into text books, school curriculum, and social policies such as animal rights, child rights, and rights for the environment like trees and rivers. Laws have changed to meet the supposed needs and concerns of the independent woman. The courts have bowed to women’s demands by placing total responsibility of family support on men.
If women are able to do a man’s job and live independent of a man, why should they want or need the assistance of a man after a bad marriage or break-up? Why do courts continue to place this responsibility on men if women have come so far in gaining equal rights? When marriages end, both the man and woman should be considered as equally dependent on one another’s support. The children should go to the fathers just as well the mother if women have truly gained self-sufficiency.
Hollywood has stereotyped men on television and in movies as idiots and dufuses, while women are deemed as the thinking, reasonable ones. Women are just as active in sexual behavior and choice as men are yet men are still deemed as perverts and chief suspects of domestic violence. The sexual explosion among society comes as a result of the personal choice of women on whether or not to bear children due to birth control and abortion laws. Thus comes the destruction of the father-child relationship, or even the right to have that relationship.
Boys are taught to express their feminine side and girls are encouraged to live up to the standard of independency. The cycle has become obvious in the behavior of young adults who openly show diverse qualities of homosexuality. This type alternative lifestyle is spreading as normal and bringing on social confusion in terms of gender roles and individual identity. Soon, psychologically no one will have any idea how to behave or what to view as normal behavior.
The family unit has collapsed because couples cannot quite decipher who should be doing what in the household. Mothers and fathers are sharing roles when at one time they owned their own roles. Neither role is a bad role, of course, they are only natural, but the women’s movement has played a large part in changing those roles to the point where it has strained the average marriage. What do you teach your son about life? How do you teach your daughter what is right or wrong? Who is responsible for the way they turn out if they end up on drugs, pregnant, or living the alternative gender role.
Society does not want to answer these questions so they walk though life as though the problems do not exist. They would rather blame a fast food restaurant for their children growing overweight when the truth is there are no home-cooked meals anymore. They would rather blame television for destroying their child’s mind when the truth is the parents are not spending time with the kids like they should.
They would rather blame the school system when their child cannot read by the fourth grade when teachers are basically primary caregivers now, or blame school policy when their child is acting like a complete fool in school when the truth is the law has made it a criminal act to spank your child or apply strict discipline. The courts have sided with the feelings of women on this matter because not only did women abandon their role as wife and mother, but also abandoned the responsibility of loving and rearing their children.
White males are afraid to speak up against these feminists because it would mean they are sexist. They are afraid to stop the insanity because it would mean they are once again attempting to oppress the woman. They are afraid because their wives would leave them and take them to the courts for everything they have worked for. But these are the laws we made and this is the life we chose.
Again, do not misunderstand this theory, women are extremely productive persons and have contributed greatly to society, however, if they are going to accept the responsibilities of independency then they must own up to the reality that leaving the home and joining the workforce in massive amounts over the years have given rise to a number of social problems, especially in the family.
The feminization of America is a reality that each of us face daily. The generations that follow from this point on will feel the brunt of this social change the most. When there are no functional families left in America (which there probably are not many left today) and there is no clear-cut definition of what a real man is, or women, and adults in the year 2050 live in an era of lasciviousness and total revelry, this is when someone will stand up and finally say, “where have all the men gone?”
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