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Venker Claims Founding Feminists Had Dysfunctional Backgrounds They Extrapolated to All Women
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The Career Trap That Makes Women Miserable - Suzanne Venker - #1113
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"If you study their backgrounds, you find that just about every single one of them had a very dysfunctional story or upbringing or background that caused them to turn away either from men or marriage as an institution. And rather than study their own story and come to terms with what happened to their, really their mom and dad is what we're talking about, they extrapolated that story to mean, oh, the whole system's screwed up. Oh, marriage is oppressive."
Suzanne Venker claims the most influential second-wave feminists of the 1970s had dysfunctional family backgrounds that shaped their anti-marriage messaging, which she argues became culturally dominant despite representing only a minority of women. She contends this messaging has misled generations of women into prioritizing careers over family without understanding the trade-offs.
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