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Entry: The sad state of American feminism: a great Mother's Day gift! Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/the_sad_state_of_american_feminism_a_great_mothers_day_gift#26015 Post contents: <i>If we believe that conforming to femininity is every woman’s responsibility in the same way that conforming to manliness is every man’s, conservatives (especially conservative women) shouldn’t be shy about saying so. </i> Absolutist statements about how others should be are just as bad coming from the right as they are coming from the left. There have always been and always will be people who don't conform to traditional gender roles due to biological factors, perhaps chief among them being exposure to abnormal hormonal levels in the womb. (We call them sissies and tomboys.) What room is there for such people in Ms. Rittelmeyer's ideology? I agree that femininity should be encouraged among women, and that masculinity should be encouraged among men, because most people naturally conform to some degree to traditional gender roles, and are happier doing so. But just as it's cruel to force inverted gender roles on the majority (e.g., promoting sexual promiscuity as "liberation" to women), it's equally cruel to force rigid, traditional gender roles on the minority of people who are ill-equipped, biologically speaking, to take them on. Sent at: 2008 07 06