@jam3723: UNITED KINGDOM: "Feminism Has Failed Me And My Generation" — British Columnist Says She’s Single, Childless And Alone In Her 50s British columnist Petronella Wyatt made waves with a viral column arguing that feminism failed women of her generation. Wyatt, who was in her mid-50s when she wrote it for the Daily Mail in 2024, described meeting a group of friends every week at a London restaurant. All of them were highly educated, successful working women. All of them, she wrote, were single and without children. She argued that her generation — the children of Thatcherism raised on Gloria Steinem and Simone de Beauvoir — was taught to put careers and financial independence first and to think and act like men, and that many of those women now feel lonely and unloved. "My teachers made me feel as if marriage was shameful. My English mistress once teased me for looking at a bridal magazine, but then she was an arch feminist who demonised men," she wrote. "Feminism has failed me and my generation." Wyatt wrote candidly about battling loneliness and depression, saying financial independence doesn't compensate for a solitary existence. "The feminism I was spoon-fed in my youth made the error of telling members of my sex to behave and think like men," she concluded. The column first ran in April 2024 and is being widely shared again on X, TikTok and Instagram, with many women in their 40s and 50s saying it describes their own lives — while others push back, saying feminism gave them choice, not loneliness. Did feminism make women's lives better or worse? #PetronellaWyatt #Feminism #FeminismDebate #DailyMail #WomenOfHerGeneration

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