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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:00 AM

The happy hypocrite

I never cared that Caitlin Flanagan calls herself an at-home mother, even though she's a magazine writer with a staff of helpers. But now she's using her battle with cancer to denounce feminism and extol her traditional virtues -- and I've had it.

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  • Wednesday, June 28, 2006 09:59 PM

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    In my opinion there is an awkward strain on the identify of females. There always has and always will be. Men have always have an identity- to try and aceheive, through anger, compitition, envy, greed, pride, ect- their goal through societites has been to try and acheive sucess, both financial, emotional and psycologically. Of course the most important, being financial, because being rich gers you respect from the outside and in many chances increases your chances with the opposite sex. Why men have always acheived success in different societies, women have always been there on the side. To talk, gossip, relax, cook, organize, take care of the kids. Hoever there has never been a consistent role that women have shared, something that makes a women a women. Now even more so, because women have started to enter the work force. So all this being siad, I feel that women have no real self core or idtneity. If you ask a women what she wants or what makes her happy there will be no consistency in thier answers. Because they are always looking for something else to give them inner purpose and identiy, lacking it in themselves

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