The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan - Part 9

The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 104

  April 14, 2017 

Book 31 - The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan (1997)
 Part 9 - pages 258-281
Reading Time - 1 hour

Sooo... you know what bored housewives do, right? They become rabid sex monsters of course! They are searching for that magical "romantic love" and after a while, they're not finding it from their husbands... or extra-marital affairs. Women want sex... demand sex... and men are disinterested. They are demanding fulfillment from their husband and it's not happening. So you end up with predatory sex-crazed housewives and passive, martyred husbands.

Women basically go a little crazy cooped up at home all day while the husband is at work doing exciting stuff and the kids are at school learning differential equations. She's bored silly and no amount of Harlequin romances are going to fill that boredom. She's looking for fulfillment in all the wrong places and not finding it... cause it doesn't come from house-cleaning, or sex... it comes from fulfilling her potential as a human being. Hopefully we get to that soon...