The Making Of A Woman Hater

Her mother, Miriam Horowitz Goldstein was the spoiled daughter of a doctor who at 20 made a loveless marriage to "an older Jewish businessman" a jeweler almost twice her age. She was ashamed he had "no formal American education and a heavy Jewish accent." He could do nothing right either. (17) But Betty Friedan, instead of seeing that her parent's marriage was the problem, chose to blame the traditional feminine role. She attributed her mother's unloving behavior to her lack of a satisfying career. Also ostracized by her classmates, Friedan vowed that "they may not like me" but one day "they are going to have to look up to me." (25) Fame and fortune came her way with her book "The Feminine Mystique," (1963)which devalued the traditional feminine role and stripped women of their "mystique." Women don't mind sacrificing if they are appreciated. Husband and children need the gracious love of a beautiful young wife or mother. This nurturing feminine charm was a woman's "mystique." In her book, Friedan said family oriented women had no identity of their own. She also said family was "a comfortable concentration camp" because women's tasks lacked "opportunities for self expression and advancement." Friedan convinced women to deny their natural identity as wife and mother and seek it from jobs and employers. In other words, she projected her trauma over lack-of-mother-love on motherhood, at incalculable cost to women and society. http://www.rense.com/general76/makk.htm

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