Kate
O’Beirne’s " Women
Who Make the World Worse"
is one of the boldest books challenging
the orthodoxy of political correctness
to be released in years. Above all,
it documents the real damage inflicted
on our culture by radical feminism
and the women who lead that destructive
movement.
O’Beirne makes
a compelling case, substantiated by
copious research, that radical feminism
has been driven largely by disaffected
women, devoted to undermining the
traditional institutions that are
indispensable for a healthy, vibrant
society: motherhood, fatherhood and
marriage.
In their relentless
assault on gender distinctions and
Mother Nature herself, they have tried
to eliminate all differences between
men and women, labeling them as social
constructs engineered by dominant
males in furtherance of their conspiracy
to oppress women.
This book is not merely a polemical
counterpoint to the subjective propaganda
with which radical feminists have
bombarded society in the last three-plus
decades. It marshals impressive evidence
shattering the bizarre, counterintuitive
psychobabble feminists have promoted
to "deconstruct" the pillars
of our culture.
Radical feminist
torchbearers publicly condemn marriage
as the "chief vehicle for the
perpetuation of the oppression of
women" and a destructive institution
that has harmed women’s mental
and emotional health.
But O’Beirne
shows that when confronted with the
hard evidence that refutes their premises,
radical feminists cavalierly dismiss
it as just further proof of men’s
successful subjugation and indoctrination
of women.
For example, when
study after study reveals that married
women, on average, are happier, healthier
and wealthier than their unmarried
counterparts, feminists write them
off as skewed because they don’t
comport with their militant conclusions.
O’Beirne cites
a female sociology professor, Jessie
Barnard, who says, "To be happy
in a relationship which imposes so
many impediments on her, as traditional
marriage does, women must be slightly
mentally ill." Another, Katharine
Bartlett, the dean of Duke University’s
law school, attributes women’s
support for the traditional, nuclear
family to deeply rooted ideology (read:
brainwashing).
If anyone is blinded
by ideological conditioning, it’s
the feminists, who willfully ignore
the stubborn data that refuse to conform
to their prejudices. For their dogma
to thrive, they have to discount such
disturbing findings as "boys
who grew up outside of intact marriages,
were, on average, more than twice
as likely to end up in jail as other
boys, and twice as likely to use illegal
drugs."
While radical feminists
hold themselves out as champions of
women’s freedom and choice,
they have sought to systematically
undercut the natural bond between
mother and child and put a guilt trip
on mothers who would prefer temporarily
to sacrifice their professional careers
and stay home during their children’s
formative years.
No less a figure
than Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg wrote, "Motherly love
ain’t everything it has been
cracked up to be. To some extent,
it’s a myth that men have created
to make women think that they do this
job to perfection."
And lest you draw
the wrong inferences here,
O’Beirne’s book is
not a condemnation of women who choose
to pursue their careers while raising
their children. Rather, it is an indictment
of the radical feminists who insist
on women marching in lock step to
the monolithic dictates of the radical
movement.
O’Beirne also
makes quite clear that she has long
opposed discrimination against women
in employment and education and is
a strong believer in women pursing
academic and career excellence. It
never occurred to her father, she
says, that her chosen profession of
law "was unsuitable for a woman."
Though O’Beirne
has been a fierce advocate of equal
opportunity for women, she abhors
the radical feminists’ goal
of legally enforcing an equality of
outcomes, which would include, for
example, absurdly equalizing the percentage
of cosmetology, welding and carpentry
students between the sexes.
The feminists, O’Beirne
correctly notes, are not about empowering
women. They have no room in their
utopia for accomplished conservative
women, such as Margaret Thatcher or
Condoleezza Rice.
"Women
Who Make the World Worse"
is, to be sure, an entertaining, often
humorous expose of the modern feminist
movement, but at the same time, it’s
a sober wake-up call, highlighting
its destructive "advancements"
and naming its primary culprits, including
our would-be president, Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
I have long admired
Kate O’Beirne and her powerful
work as a writer for National Review
and a commentator on "The Capital
Gang." But she has outdone herself
with this book, which is a
must-read for all who seek to
understand radical feminism and the
danger it poses to women, men, children,
families, marriage, education and
other essential societal institutions.
I have barely scratched
the surface here.
Get it and read it. You will not
be disappointed.
David Limbaugh
is a syndicated columnist who blogs
at
DavidLimbaugh.com. He is
also the author of
Persecution and
Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption
in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department.

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