by Mark Oppenheimer, Salon.com
If like me, you have wondered how anyone can make a career out of hatred toward those who haven’t done anything wrong or can say things that are both patently false and rooted in some kind of phobia (xena, homo, otherwise) then I would suggest reading this profile of Maggie Gallagher.
She runs NOM, the poorly named National Organization for Marriage, and she has made it her life’s work to keep marriage between one man and one woman. Gallagher argues for this type of “traditional marriage” for the sake of the children (won’t you think of the children?) arguing that children do best when raised by a mother and a father, a belief maybe she holds because she raised her son as a single mother for the first many years of her life. Obviously, the man+woman=good, happy children equation has been repeatedly shown to not be a cure all for society’s problems.
Something else Mag-Mags hates is feminism and gender equality. I mean she really loathes it. Maybe because, as a conservative woman, she has probably not been around a lot of men who embody that gender equality that makes life easier and because she can’t have it and doesn’t understand how it exists, hate on it she must. This is also how Oppenheimer characterize’s her thoughts on such issues:
Because men are so different, society developed norms to pressure men to take responsibility they might wish to avoid. The naive hope of the women’s movement, that gender roles could wither away, has only tangled ladies’ stockings in a hopeless knot: Without marriage norms, and the sex norms that go with them, men can get away with anything — all the sex they want, and no more of the housework than before.
Of course this isn’t true but Maggie Gallagher doesn’t care about truth but rather how she has been wronged by the world and how she can make others suffer like her.
It’s a long read but worth it.
