May 26 2008

The New Feminists

Category: General — Lindsay @ 11:17 pm

Wendy Shalit posted a link on facebook to an article from the UK Daily Mail about Alice Walker’s daughter. Apparently, Walker, author of the modern classic novel The Color Purple, disowned her daughter for having a child. As a feminist, Walker bought into the lie that “a woman needs a man [or, in this case, a child] like a fish needs a bicycle.” She had a daughter of her own, but actually stopped speaking and writing to Rebecca because she had a son. Wendy was right. The current generation of young women is embracing their natural right to be wives and mothers. Feminists say they want women to have whatever they choose, but marriage and children is never the right choice.