The link: http://www.slate.com/id/2137537/?GT1=7932
“[T]he most interesting data may be that the women who strongly identify as progressive—the 15 percent who agree most with feminist ideals—have a harder time being happy than their peers, according to an analysis...”
As we all know “progressive” is what liberals started calling themselves when “liberal” started being a bad word. I have always associated negativity, disappointment, self-loathing, and general unhappiness with the liberal mindset. To be a liberal is to be perpetually dissatisfied with the status quo. In fact, it's telling just how universally evil the phrase “status quo” is to liberals, when it's really a neutral term that as much includes “not currently being attacked with nuclear weapons” as it does “still letting WalMart oppress the nation.”
But all of that is a given of my mindset and my perception of liberals. Nothing new there. What's interesting to me, is this: “Consider the evidence that evangelical women—who in general endorse traditional gender roles—are better at adjusting psychologically to situations they don't find ideal than feminists are.”
This quote takes on a particularly odd implications when one considers the reality based community, to which the left claims to belong. As Wikipedia points out, the “reality based community” was coined as something of a foil to the “faith based community.” Obviously it's as typically snide and derisive as all liberal buzzwords are, but it's also amazing how ignorant of reality it really is.
The Slate article claims that evangelical women are “better at adjusting psychologically to situations they don't find ideal.” That, to me, means they are more capable of living in reality, rather than fretting over the non-reality they wish were the case. I'm sure that liberals would suggest that these evangelical women are just cowed or brainwashed, trained to accept injustice, but all the negative spin in the world can't change the fact that some people are more capable of living with the reality of their situation than others. In fact, there is a sort of contempt for reality in the liberal psyche, a refusal to accept that things are how they are, and to perpetually insist that they should be some other way.
So, surprise of all surprises, turns out feminists weren't upset because they were being mistreated, they are/were upset because they're just unhappy, complainy people.
Ultimately it's a rather humorous and terribly depressing experience to watch these flighty, sad little people bounce around, trying to create a world in which they're no longer dissatisfied with themselves. Liberals, you guys need to listen: No matter how much effort you put into forcing everyone to play along with your misguided self-help program, the problem isn't with us. It's with you. It's inside you. Don't worry about whether Dick Cheney is mean or not. He's not you, he's not inside you, he has nothing at all to do with you. Please leave the rest of us out of it.