Hypocrisy_Is_A_Feminist_Virtue

Hypocrisy Is A Feminist Virtue Hypocrisy is a feminist virtue. Consider one of the most popular television show, “Ally McBeal”. Ally first appears to be a feminist’s model of the 1960s; she’s an attractive Harvard-educated attorney trying high-profile cases at a leading Boston firm. Yet what makes her character and the tales of her work so popular is that this package contains a (amusingly, of course) neurotic woman who longs for a serious relationship, leading to marriage, leading to children. Ally has turned to the TV audience to confide, in hushed tones: “I want to change the world; I just want to get married first.” Embracing motherhood as well as other feminine virtues can be regarded as hypocritical to the feminist ideology; for a feminist, to replace the role of an independent career woman with the dual orthodox role of virtuous wife and mother is similar to a Catholic priest discarding all his knowledge and faith in God and preaching the teachings of Hinduism. It is repudiation to the complete equality – defined as attaining the same degree of social, political, and economic power that men have, even going so far as to demand equality of experience as well as opportunity – that feminists have women, feminist, men, feminine, virtues, life, feminism, social, woman, should, harmony, feminists, equality, about, same, rights, equal, children, ally, very, political, movement, mothers, motherhood, just, home, femininity, female, being, because, yet, wrong, without, wife, way