Topic: Betty Friedan

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The "paradox of declining female happiness" is attributed to women being forced out of the home and into the workforce through social shaming. Historical dialogues between Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan are cited to show the intentional nature of this shift. Hollywood's role in this engineering is traced from Catherine Hepburn's early masculine projections to modern "idiot dad" archetypes like Homer Simpson.