A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Women's Movement Has Been Disastrous

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Taped on December 7, 1994. Anyone who thinks "the women's movement" is monolithic should watch this show. Come to think of it, anyone who enjoys good theater should watch this show. Samples: Camille Paglia: "Essentially feminism remains one of the great progressive reform movements of the last two hundred years. It is analogous to the abolition of slavery, to the abolition of child labor, and so on. Just as Mr. Buckley would not want to abolish Catholicism because of the excesses of certain fanatics, so must we not attribute to feminism the excesses of various neurotics and incompetents." ... Betty Friedan: "I mean, I am a feminist, but I am not politically correct, and I hate that kind of rigidity. I hate the attempt to make a single doctrine, a single party line, whether it's feminism or anything else." ... Helen Alvare: "How can a movement that says that some have no right to be born, based on dependency, size, stage of development, disability-and I might remind you some of your sisters say it's okay to have sex-selection abortion-how can such a movement call itself life-affirming?" Summary by Firing Line Staff. Review: Abortion Activists kill human babies and the women's movement - Perfect! What was argued here has been resolved; That the women's movement is a disaster because it was hijacked by Abortion [murder of a baby human in the womb of its mother] activists...Great job on the side of Buckley! Amazingly, Helen is still fighting the good fight! Thanks be to God. Review: One Star - terrible quality of discussion and video transfer.