Feminism - in league with big business

From Peter Hitchens' blog, confirming my view that big business buys cheap labour policy from bent politicians.

"The view seems to be that it’s just about all right for women to give birth, but after that can we please separate them from their young as soon as possible, for the sake of the economy?...The Lib Dems’ chief feminist, Lynne Featherstone, says....having a baby is a ‘bit of a setback’, adding that: ‘One of the main barriers to full equality in the UK is the fact women still have babies.’ The Coalition wants 40 per cent of two-year-olds in day care by next year...."


"Nobody ever questions the claim that it is automatically good for mothers to go out and be wage-slaves. Once, this idea was widely hated, and every self-respecting man worked as hard as he could to free his wife from the workbench. Then the feminist revolutionaries began to argue that the home was a prison and marriage was penal servitude...Most people thought that was nuts – until big business realised that women were cheaper than men....."

"So suddenly the wildest anti-male ravings of the ultras became the standard view of the CBI, the political parties and the agony aunts. And off the women trooped, to their call centres, their offices and their assembly plants, choking back tears as they crammed their toddlers into subsidised nurseries. They got tax-breaks. Fatherless households got welfare subsidies....the one arrangement that was discriminated against – and hard – was the one where one parent went out to work and the other stayed at home...."

"Does all this matter? Well, I suspect it does. Children need parents, and small children badly need the devoted, unstinting personal attention that only a mother can give. Without it, they will grow physically but they will not flourish as fully developed humans. If you wonder where those feral teenagers came from, or why so many primary school children can barely talk and are not potty-trained, ask yourself if it might not be connected with the abolition of motherhood."