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Tiger Beatdown: We cannot have it all because we no longer have dreams

Eh, as it was bound to happen, I wrote a response to the piece that Anne-Marie Slaughter published at The Atlantic.

This has been the week of backlash against feminism. In fairness, it is always backlash week against feminism but Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece at The Atlantic, Why women still can’t have it all, has revived some of those sentiments. Feminism has failed us, she implies. We were promised a balance between career and private life. We were told that if you worked hard and juggled between your work, your children, your spouse and your social life, you too, could be successful. If your spouse embraces this model of cooperation and takes on their fair share of housework and child rearing then you could also reach the highest echelons of power and, in the words of existential philosopher Mr. Spock, live long and prosper. All it took, we were told, was commitment and creativity.

All of this is, of course, pure unadulterated bullshit.

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    Quotes from the article: Which means I’d been part, albeit unwittingly, of making millions of women feel that they are...
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    From the article by Flavia Dzodan “The truth is, we no longer seem to have dreams. We have abandoned the creative...
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    Articulately addresses my feelings of capitalism. I’m not so sure I’d agree with her response to mainstream feminism...
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    Wow, yes. Read the whole thing.
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    This is exactly why I can’t help but side-eye all those Third-Wave Feminists who are blind to how neo-liberalism has...
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    How about the feminists who recite said quote because they believe in and abide by it? Not everyone is looking for...
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