The "F-word"

A few years ago, a friend of mine wrote a "The F-Word", a song decrying how the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy had managed to turn "feminism" into a dirty word.

John Ray links to a post on the website of Ladies Against Feminism where they respond to a complaint that they've tarred feminism with a broad brush. In response to an accusation that,

...how can you say that feminists basically look down on women who are housewives? I have never in my research, schooling, etc. heard such a ridiculous comment and criticism of feminism.

they cite examples from feminist writings:

This view of the woman at home as some poor slave "reduced to servitude" and "a mere instrument for the production of children" is echoed over and over again in the writings of feminists who are now enshrined as patron saints of the women's movement. Let's allow them to speak for themselves:

• [The] housewife is a nobody, and [housework] is a dead-end job.
• Housewives [are] an endless array of 'horse-leech's' daughters, crying Give! Give!
• A parasite sucking out the living strength of another organism
• [Housewives] are mindless and thing-hungry...not people.
• [Housewives] are dependent creatures who are still children...parasites.
• ...his wife, [whose] horizons are inevitably limited by her relegation to domestic duties. [This] programs her for mediocrity and dulls her brain...
• Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession
• [As long as the woman] is the primary caretaker of childhood, she is prevented from being a free human being.
• No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children.

No, obviously Ladies Against Feminism didn't do their research.