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I saw this on childfree, and the post is here. In the post there is a link to the article as well as the text of the article.
The post is on a book called The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennets. It is a book of research this woman has done on stay at home moms- and the conclusion that it isn't a good idea. The book is based on a lot of research, it's not a book about her personal opinions. While I'm sure that her opinion was that it was bad to for woman to be giving up their careers to become homemakers, she went out and did research to get the facts to back her up. She wanted to give SAHMs or potential SAHMs the information that they should have so that they could make sound decisions about their future. Unfortunetly this woman wasn't prepared for the Mommy Brigade who were outraged at the fact that she wrote the book and dismissed it merely as opinion. From what she said in the article, most people who were throwing fits about the book didn't READ the book, but they apparently know what's in it anyway.
Now, she should have been more prepared for the reaction, but I think she was a bit too optomistic on the audience she was trying to reach.
I suppose it's not that surprising. If SAHMs have made a decision and have realized it was bad (which is the case of some of the woman, one of them saying 'I don't want to feel more guilty about my life than I already am' (close to that anyway). Since they made the decision to become SAHMs they won't want to hear that it was a bad idea. Especially if this might have already occured to them. People that she interviewed that were or would be SAHMs didn't want to think about things that might affect them in the future like death or unemployment or divorce- that is something that would happen to other people but not them.
Anyway, I think that this book sounds interesting and I would like to read it. Now, I never have any intention of becoming a stay at home mom- I am childfree and want to be sterilized for one thing. I have an education that I have every intention of continuing and using. So I'm not exactly the audience that she was hoping to reach but still.
The post is on a book called The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennets. It is a book of research this woman has done on stay at home moms- and the conclusion that it isn't a good idea. The book is based on a lot of research, it's not a book about her personal opinions. While I'm sure that her opinion was that it was bad to for woman to be giving up their careers to become homemakers, she went out and did research to get the facts to back her up. She wanted to give SAHMs or potential SAHMs the information that they should have so that they could make sound decisions about their future. Unfortunetly this woman wasn't prepared for the Mommy Brigade who were outraged at the fact that she wrote the book and dismissed it merely as opinion. From what she said in the article, most people who were throwing fits about the book didn't READ the book, but they apparently know what's in it anyway.
Now, she should have been more prepared for the reaction, but I think she was a bit too optomistic on the audience she was trying to reach.
I suppose it's not that surprising. If SAHMs have made a decision and have realized it was bad (which is the case of some of the woman, one of them saying 'I don't want to feel more guilty about my life than I already am' (close to that anyway). Since they made the decision to become SAHMs they won't want to hear that it was a bad idea. Especially if this might have already occured to them. People that she interviewed that were or would be SAHMs didn't want to think about things that might affect them in the future like death or unemployment or divorce- that is something that would happen to other people but not them.
Anyway, I think that this book sounds interesting and I would like to read it. Now, I never have any intention of becoming a stay at home mom- I am childfree and want to be sterilized for one thing. I have an education that I have every intention of continuing and using. So I'm not exactly the audience that she was hoping to reach but still.
