The West’s over-sexualized culture is feminism’s byproduct

According to Siskind, Friedan’s primary objection is what is now the norm. “Unfortunately the chicken has come home to roost as we’ve seen a surge in teen dating violence and things like sexting because the whole notion is ‘yeah, we own our sexuality now and wear it on our sleeves.’ Which might be fine for some women,” Siskind said, “but for many others its not. So our girls now think that is how they define themselves, not how smart or accomplished they are.”

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List told TheDC that feminists hurt themselves by seeking empowerment through sex. “Women decided the best way to get themselves out of oppression in the modern era was to emulate men,” Dannenfelser said. “They were trying to get power, but when women decided that disconnecting sex from relationships — which is what they saw men doing — was liberation that is where the floodgates opened. And that is how our undoing as a gender has come about.”

Reist told National Radio’s “The Panel with Chris Trotter and Linley Boniface” that sexual imagery now hangs like an albatross around the neck of true liberation. “The real authentic message of women’s freedom has been buried within the proliferation and globalization of sexual imagery,” she said. “Girls are growing up in a shadow cast by pornography, they are getting a message that it is the bearing of the female body which makes them a real woman.”

“The women’s movement taught so many women and young girls that sex is what brings liberation and empowerment,” Dannenfelser said. “Now they don’t understand why they are so unhappy.”