So apparently Betty Friedan wrote a book called The Second Stage where she basically recanted a lot of things she said in The Feminine Mystique, which is sad because that was for the most part a good book. But I read an excerpt today from The Second Stage that makes me think she was thinking about me, when she wrote about "female machismo" and what a girl who acts too much like a man is like:
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Originally Posted by Betty Friedan
What if, in reaction, she strips her life clean of all these unmeasured, unvalued feminine tasks and frills-stops baking cookies altogether, cuts her hair like a monk, decides not to have children, installs a computer console in her bedroom? She suffers finally a new "crisis of confidence." She does not feel grounded in life. She shivers inside. She is depleted by female machismo.
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Its odd for me to think that a feminist leader thought having a computer in the bedroom must make a short haired woman a hollow shell.