Feminism

I was just reading the bio over at Politics, Guns, and Beer, which contains this statement:

I’m now exercising real feminism by choosing to stay home with my daughter.

This reminded me of the absolute disgust I have for feminism. Not the feminism mentioned above, but the type of feminism that states that a woman has no value in society unless she has a career.

My wife worked before we had our kids. She had a very successful career, the most tangible measure of which was the fact that they doubled her salary over the five years she worked that job. She stopped working shortly before we had our first kid. We planned on having two kids, and she was going to stay home with them, at least in the early years. We had twins on our second go 'round, so she's ended up staying home longer than expected.

My wife has done an excellent job raising our kids. She frequently gets comments from strangers on how well-behaved our kids are in public (even though we know what sort of hellions they are at home.) The extended trips we've had them on have gone much better than expected -- no embarassing meltdowns, no bratty behavior, etc. They're behaving well in pre-school and kindergarten.

Despite all of this, she feels like she's wasting her time. She doesn't think she's actually accomplishing anything unless she's employed somewhere. She's been so fully indoctrinated with this pseudo-feminist bullcrap that she'll just never be happy being "just" a homemaker.