Did the feminists burn their bras for nothing?

[debssm]

Majority of British women would pick being a housewife over having a career

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2324926/Majority-British-women-pick-housewife-having-career.html#ixzz2TX4wzx00

Unacceptable, that was Eleanor Roosevelt I think.

Not clicking on it.

just wanted to wonder about the thread title.
Did 'the' feminists burn their bras.

As if there was just one small group of feminists consigned to the 'his'tory books.

It's a peculiar way to look at things.

Just struck me that's all.

Oh well, if you want to be pedantic, nobody burned any bras. It was a journalist's fabrication to make a more interesting story.

But I think the real topic (if one removes journalists' additions that make the story look more interesting, like references to the fictional bra-burners) might be "Did the militant phase of feminism have such minimal results that a lot of women wish they could be housewives?"

And since it's the Daily Mail, I have the expectation that after starting off with a teasing reference to a mythical event, it will not improve.

"Being a SAHM is not being financially dependent on your husband, it just means that one of you is doing the childcare"

well... in many cases the stay at home person DOES end up being financially dependent on their partner. It can cause problems, specially if either of the two gets resentful or if the working person is some kind of tyrant or if they are abusive or if the couple hasn't properly discussed how things will operate.

Plus, does being a SAHP mean you do ALL the childcare? I think that's a bit wrong.

If you asked me I would say I would rather be rich enough to not work and stay at home with my son than survive on one poor wage. However, I know that all the riches in the world wouldn't prepare me or the tedious day in day out childcare that i would end up doing and the resentment I would feel towards my husband for having a life outside of the home.

ps - I think the QI book has a bit in it about the bra burning and that actually no one did burn their bras. here's what Snopes says.

PMSL at mycelebrityfashion.co.uk is this really really for real?

Do people actually look at stuff like this?

Feminists didn't burn their bras BTW. Urban myth.

"he thing that annoys me about current feminism is that they seemingly despise other women who make different choices to them"

Wow. What are 'current feminists' like?

justme all one homogenous block, apparently. Like the borg.

Nobody likes to referred to as a homogenous block - women, feminists, men, whoever. It does happen though. Then people get prissy - 'it's obvious I didn't mean all women/men/fruit pastilles, just the orange ones' is the usual retort.

Feminism is about so much more than choice though. And having choices is still broadly restricted to certain social classes and/or income groups.

If feminism is about equality between men and women, it wont fix those problems will it, Eldritch? All it will mean is that poor women will have the same shitty end of the stick as poor men, rich women will will be CEO's, and the rest of us will be paying all the tax

Oh, quite.

And who can afford to burn bras, anyway? They're a shocking price. (EC channels grandmother and misses point of bra-burning entirely).

'In a recent poll of 1,582 women aged 25 and over, all of whom were in a relationship and in full time employment, 62 per cent admitted they secretly wished to be a housewife rather than have a career.'

That's an easy fix then. All you have to do is...

Carry out another survey of 1,582 men aged 25 and over, all of whom are in a relationship and in full time employment. Making sure that all the variables are controlled and the gender is the only difference.

debssm I'm a SAHM too, in an ideal world DH and I would both work P/T and share the childcare, school runs etc between us but sadly work places just don't tend to be that flexible. So, no, given the choice I wouldn't stay home and be happy being a 'housewife (I'm not a housewife, I'm a SAHM) especially if we didn't have DC.

I agree with the other posters who have said that if you did the same survey on men the answer would probably be similar.