November 27, 2005
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...The feminist movement is waning because we are too busy waxing our legs, our hardwood floors, our top lips and our silly pink Smart cars. Our pursuit of professional fulfilment has been abandoned in favour of a bubble-headed concept of femininity.
At least, that is what a growing number of feminist commentators would have us believe. Heading the campaign to get us back on message are two Irish women: former president Mary Robinson and Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist and daughter of west of Ireland emigrants.
In a polemic entitled Are Men Necessary?, Dowd complains that modern females are squandering the achievements of the women’s movement by carrying on like flibbertigibbets, obsessing about Botox and designer shoes and texting their boyfriends.
Last week Robinson took up the theme, arguing that well-educated women who stay home to look after their children are “copping out”. The most alarming aspect of this trend, according to Ireland’s high priestess of feminism, is not that women are being forced to become home-makers, but that they are choosing to do so....
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