on 2009-06-01 01:58 pm (UTC)
Good points all. I also think it has to do with the fact that women in the 1950s and 60s felt obligated to say they were happy, because that's what society expected. (Plus, if you said you weren't you were considered sick, frigid, a failure as a woman, with all the social reprobation that entailed, which meant there was a big incentive to lie. As the author would know if he'd actually read The Feminine Mystique.) These days, society is all about airing out your problems to anyone in earshot--sometimes too much so, IMO.

And, like the author mentions (without realising it himself), women's place in society is stuck in a half-assed neither-here-nor-there state. So if you're a liberal, progressive woman, you're gonna be unhappy that the changes haven't gone far enough, but if you're an adherent of quiverfull, you're going to be unhappy precisely because society has liberalized somewhat. In other words, neither side can be entirely happy with the modern situation.

And just so you know, Bran. Anger is apparently very unfeminine. *er*
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