Roar Like a Woman: How Feminists Think Women Suck and Men Rock

Are you a feminist? Or are you a masculinist? Its a trick question--theyre the same thing says mother of two and parenting magazine journalist Natalie Ritchie. Five decades after feminism began women are trapped in a masculinist dead end. Feminists claim to be womens friend but their actions shout the opposite. Feminism cheerleads a womans man-identical career but sneers at her work as mother and housewife. It pushes women into nine-to-five jobs designed for a man with a 24/7 wife at home but fails to shape jobs around the domestic workload of the working woman who is also that 24/7 wife. It exhorts women to ape mens working style and shuns development of a truly womanly working style. It celebrates a womans leadership that copies a mans leadership in the economy and politics but blindsides a womans more profound leadership outside the workplace as the one who shapes the souls of the next generation and who lives loves and spreads the joy in our homes friendship circles and communities. Feminists seek a 50/50 gender-equal world in which one hundred percent of women do what one hundred percent of men do ensuring womens interests contributions and priorities are eradicated. In its bid to bust the patriarchy feminism has become the patriarchy. After a wide-ranging career in public relations and writing as a mother and from her most recent role as features editor at a national parenting magazine Natalie Ritchie shows feminism up for what it is--masculinism. With a warm regard for women a big-picture eye for feminisms hypocritical man-worship and a defiant refusal to bow to it she points to what the world looks like when it truly values women.