Susan J. Douglas Quotes

• Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course your children come first; of course you come last; today's children need constant attention, cultivation, and adoration, or they'll become failures and hate you forever; you don't want to fail at that; it's easier for mothers to abandon their work and their dreams than for fathers; you don't want it all anymore (which is good because you can't have it all); who cares about equality, you're too tired; and whoops--here we are in 1954.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Madre, Sueño, Hijos

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• ...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Hate, Men, Feminist

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• We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Fun, Race, Media

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• We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no sense of humor who see sexism at every turn. They make men's testicles shrivel up to the size of peas, they detest the family and think all children should be deported or drowned.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Children, Hate, Selfish

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• ... "¿Divertido?", preguntarás. "¿No eran las feministas esas ninjas antifamilia, sin gracia y con cara de mala leche que estaban amargadas porque no podían conseguir un hombre?". Bueno, en realidad el problema era que demasiadas de ellas HABÍAN conseguido un hombre, se habían casado con él, habían tenido sus hijos y luego habían descubierto que, como madres, se suponía que nunca iban a tener su propio dinero, su propia identidad, sus propias aspiraciones, tiempo para mear o un cerebro. Y sí, algunas mujeres se volvieron malhumoradas como resultado. Al fin y al cabo, sin ira no hay cambio social.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Fun, Kids

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• Si eres como nosotras -madres con un problema de actitud-, puede que cada vez te irrite más este abismo entre los ridículos ideales melosos de maternidad perfecta de los medios de comunicación de masas y la realidad de la vida cotidiana de las madres.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

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• Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mamá, Madre, Poderosa

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