Peter Hitchens is a Daily Mail columnist renowned for his forthright views and independent thinking. He also does not like cyclists using footpaths, and quite right too. Not so long ago a lovely lady I know was knocked over by a hit and run cyclist and her jaw broken. Fuelled by eco righteousness cyclists often seem to think that they have no responsibility to others.
In this passage Mr. Hitchens writes about the origins of modern motherhood.
'Nobody ever questions the claim that it is automatically good for mothers to go and be wage-slaves. Once, this idea was widely hated, and every self-respecting man worked as hard as he could to free his wife from the workbench.
Then the feminist revolutionaries began to argue that the home was a prison and marriage was penal servitude, chained to a sink. Most people thought that was nuts - until big business realised that women were cheaper than men, more reliable than men, and much less likely to go on strike or be hungover than men.
What's more, all the really beefy men-only jobs - mining coal, rolling steel, stoking furnaces had been abolished.
So suddenly the wildest anti-male ravings of the ultras became the standard view of the CBI, the political parties and the agony aunts. And off the women trooped, to their call centres, their offices and their assembly plants, choking back the tears as they crammed their toddlers into subsidised nurseries.
They got tax breaks. Fatherless families got welfare subsidies. So far as the State was concerned, the one arrangement that was discriminated against was the one where one parent went out to work and the other stayed at home.
A selfish upper crust of female lawyers, professional politicians, bankers and journalists imagined that all women enjoyed work as much as they did - when the truth is that most do it to pay the bills.'
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