This may open a huge can of worms, but I was wondering…would the world really be so bad without the initial creation of feminism? Now, I’m not saying to treat women differently, or to downgrade them, their abilities, their pay if they work outside of the home, etc., etc. But what I am saying is that, perhaps the feminist movement actually led to the downgraded social structure as well as financial instability within many households in the United States. Especially in the last decade of the 20th century and beyond. Now hear me out before the trolls come a-knockin’. First off, feminism led to an increased female presence in the work force. This, in my opinion, led to a decrease in the parenting on behalf of the children, who were/are often babysat by television, video games, and now, sadly, the Internet.
Perhaps in the 1970s and 1980s this may have been an acceptable practice seeing as how censorship was actually present and more family-friendly after-school programs were being shown on the television, the amount of violence in early video games was negligible, and the world wide web was just a pipe dream. But from the 90’s onwards, that’s another story entirely. You see all the crazy things youngsters are doing nowadays which are often times morally whack-a-do, am I right? Well, in my opinion, if you let others guide your children, specially modern day media outlets, they will in turn suffer from it, especially if mental instability exists in the first place.
Secondly, we have the subject of finances. Once the median household income was raised by a two-parent income, house builders knew this and took full advantage of it. If you research historical house prices and compare them to household incomes you will see how this has become completely out of skew compared to the past. Whereas in the past (70s and prior) a one person income could afford a house without an overly huge financial hit, now it takes two unless the one person makes a really great salary. Therefore, you have to wonder…maybe feminism leading to an increase in the female workforce was actually *not* a good thing because others took advantage of that income increase.
To summarize with a question, are our children’s childhoods and sense of sanity, as well as our financial burdens becoming out of whack because of the creation of feminism? It’s interesting to think about. Now, I do realize that feminism covers a wide range of personal, social, and economic topics, but when it comes to the work force increase and parenting as well as housing increases, it really makes one wonder. If less women (Or even less men) were in the work force and, instead, at home parenting…would social and personal morality increase, and would housing prices decrease? It makes you think.
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