Does the pill keep women "in the thrall of patriarchal capitalism"?

[MatureDJ]

Evidently this feminist writer thinks so ...

http://www.slate.com/articles/doubl...g_the_pill_by_holly_grigg_spall_reviewed.html

If capitalism, medicine, and feminism sound like strange bedfellows, that’s because they are. Grigg-Spall makes a series of seemingly contradictory claims about the capitalist-medical-feminist bloc that is supposedly bullying women into taking the pill: 1) The pill is popular because it turns women into emotionally stable and industrious workers who never miss a day of work or bleed on the shop floor and because the economy needs women’s “passivity, anxiety and emotionality.” 2) The pill is the modern-day equivalent of the 19th-century practice of “female castration,” which was used to desexualize women, and the pill is promoted as part of a feminist scheme to make women more alluring and available to men. 3) The pill kills female libido, and the pill fuels the supposed epidemic of sluttiness known as “raunch culture.”

I've always thought that the patriarchy wants women to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.

 

[Warrior74]

Say what you will about the patriarchy, it's at least consistent in what it wants and expects. Freaking matriarchy can't even discern what is good or bad for it and changes it's mind constantly...kinda like a....

 

[mrRuckus]

why do you guys talk about this patriarchy like it exists?