What Would Serena Joy Do?

"In the garden behind the house the Commander's Wife is sitting, in the chair she's had brought out. Serena Joy, what a stupid name . . . Her real name was Pam. I read that in a profile of her, in a news magazine . . . By that time she was worthy of a profile: Time or Newsweek it was, it must have been. She wasn't singing anymore by then, she was making speeches. She was good at it. Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay home. Serena Joy didn't do this herself, she made speeches instead, but she presented this failure of hers as a sacrifice she was making for the good of all."---Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Via World O'Crap (and let's all send s.z. a big giant GET WELL SOON, because her work is par excellence), we learn of this column at townhall by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America:

Postmodern thinking offered women the opportunity to “have it all.” Women flocked into the marketplace where they are having unprecedented success. Entry level MBA women now make higher salaries than their male counterparts. [um, BULLSHIT.] Sadly, though, sexual liberation came as part of the post-modern package and gals began rivaling the guys in bed-hopping, too.

Because only guys should be allowed to bed-hop. Presumably with each other, since women sure as hell aren't supposed to.

Now we are learning the price those women are paying. Turns out sexual “freedom” wasn’t exactly free. This week, the Beverly LaHaye Institute (the think tank for Concerned Women for America) released its latest Data Digest which chronicles a disturbing trend for women: since 1976, the rate of childlessness has gone up between 50 and 90 percent among women in every age bracket, and the rate of singleness among women over age 30 has tripled.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nobody mentioned in the mid-70s that “having it all” would not include marriage and children. Many young women, now that it is too late, are lamenting the cost of careerism and promiscuity as they discover that marriage and children are not likely in their future.

As s.z. notes, "Women like poor, sad Ann Coulter!" hee hee.

So-called sexual freedom, loudly touted by libertines and radical feminists, has brought soaring rates of sexually transmitted diseases and plummeting rates of marriage. Abortion has eliminated 45 million pregnancies and left behind a host of problems: heartbreak, as well as physical and emotional distress. Millions of women are finding, through bitter experience, that while the wonders of modern communication technology can distract much of the time, at the end of the day –– when the iPod and cellphone sit in their chargers, when the television’s relentless barrage is finally silent –– there is no hand to hold and no baby to cuddle.

If you have no husband to care for or baby to cuddle, you are a worthless piece of garbage. Be fruitful and multiply, goddammit! That is your only purpose in life, women.

Nature will not forever be denied; women are beginning to see the costs of imbibing the unnatural cocktail of self-centeredness served up by me-centered post-modernism.

Is that cocktail made with Stoli? So anyway, then she goes on to blast feminist groups for failing to recognize the choices made by today's Stepford wives, and continuing to drag out that old chestnut about wage inequality:

The statistical mantra that the feminist groups cite – that women make 76 cents for every male dollar – compares the average full-time working male to the average full-time working woman. Ironically, the NOW materials refuse to recognize the validity of the career choices women make to spend more time with their young children, which differs from most men’s choices.

Those sneaky NOW bitches! They dared to compare men's and women's salaries!

Naturally, I was intrigued by "Doctor" Crouse and thought it might be a good idea to learn a little bit more about her. Well, here's her bio from the CWFA website. Want to make a bet about whether Dr. Crouse stays home like she urges other women to do? I didn't think so:

1) During the Bush Administration, she was a White House senior writer on domestic issues. She authored major presidential policy addresses and edited the Presidential White Paper on Welfare Reform.
2) Prior to the White House, Dr. Crouse wrote for the Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). During that time, she prepared briefs for congressional hearings and coined the phrase "Healthy Start."
3) As president of Crouse Communications, Dr. Crouse worked with the Institute on Religion and Democracy, where she drafted, edited and produced the Christian Women's Declaration and led the Washington Summit, a coalition of female Christian leaders.
4) Prior to that, she was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Taylor University.
5) She was a professor and debate coach at Asbury College and at Ball State University, where she was selected as a mentor teacher and her debate team ranked in the top ten nationally.

But don't pay any attention to that, ladies. She is sacrificing so that the rest of you women can stay home, clean house and make babies. Isn't that comforting?
- posted by TJ @ 8:25 PM