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...Friedan says most American women are "silly," but complains that their status as "a disadvantaged majority" is unjustified. One moment she denies any specific tyranny of women by men, but then agrees with the other panelist who wants "women to organize, confront their male brethern, and continue to run the country (as they do now) under a nominal male power structure...
...Friedan, who can never forget she is a woman, is awed by women who can. She just returned from India, where she followed Prim Minister Indira Gandhi for four weeks. "No one thinks it's remarkable that she is Prime Minister," Mrs. Friedan says, pulling at an earing. "No is raising a furor. Finance Minister Desai never attacked her because of her sex, primarily because anti-women tactics wouldn't have worked. Their criticism of her are of her political abilities." Mrs. Friedan paused and smiled. "It was so grand watching her move about with her ministers. She is Prime...
...Friedan is most eloquent but no more consistent when she criticizes the advocates of "compartmentalized education for women." She disagrees with Mary Bunting that women should think of developing some competence early, retiring for a decade to bear and rear children, and then making a comeback. Women need to think of "new patterns new combinations. Babies can be left in day nurseries." She is suspicious of successful women; she claims women's college presidents, who have achieved some success, are especially jealous of their positions, regard themselves as exceptional, and assure their students that "all women are not capable...
...equally contemptuous of Phyllis McGinle and the "fulfillment through baking bread" clique who tell women not to feel guilty about being "just housewives." Phyllis McGinley is not a housewife," Mrs. Friedan claims. "She does more than just jot poetry on shopping lists...
Devoted professional women, then, are "jealous of their positions" and unwilling to help their sisters; but self-declared house-wives sell out, too. Mrs. Friedan cannot find any model for her "four-dimensional women." She disdains most American women because they settle for jobs as clerk-typists yet she blindly works for a millennium, a "human revolution...