Why does a man work? To earn money. There are additional reasons: wealth, power, status, prestige, getting away from the house, and achieving goals important to the individual man in question.

In their downtime, do men dream about having a career, or improving their career? Not usually. Earning money drives a man into a career, not just for himself, but for his family. If a man has a lot of money, the man might continue in a career or not. Without the need for money, does a career make a man happy? Sometimes yes, oftentimes no.

A career may be good or bad, but a paycheck is the main reason people go to work.

So if careers are not particularly enjoyable, why do feminists push girls and women into careers? Wouldn't a woman be happier not having a career, and taking the easier role of focusing on being a housewife and mother?

Feminists believe that this is a man-controlled world, and if enough women are in positions of wealth and power, the world would fundamentally change for the better. Feminists do not care about whether having a career is good for an individual woman or not. She is a means to their end of overthrowing "the system," a nebulous concept.

The crisis in feminism is that plenty of women have reached positions of wealth and power, and they do not act much differently than men. When they try to act differently, they aren't able to use their wealth or power to do very much to improve the lives of women beyond what a man does, or to overthrow capitalism, or stop racism, or do anything else they feel like doing.

First-wave feminism aimed to secure property and voting rights for women. Mission accomplished. Second-wave feminism aimed to leverage contraceptives, especially the birth control pill, so that women could ride the cock carousel and have a career. Mission accomplished. A handful of women are able to go into fields that they truly aspire to. Unfortunately, most women are now less happy than their peers were a few decades ago.

As time has passed, feminists felt the need for a third wave. It has never been clear what the third-wave of feminism is supposed to do. It seems to be a mishmash of complaints relating to sexuality, transgenderism, wage gaps, TV show characters, styles of sitting on the subway, mansplaining, body image, and symbolic efforts such as putting the first woman in such-and-such job or achieving something.

We see all around us that women are unhappier than ever before, and their health has begun to suffer as well. STDs and drug use are way up, while fertility is plunging.

Second-wave feminism gave women the cock carousel, the riding of which for very long permanently psychologically damages a woman's ability to have a happy long-term monogamous relationship. Second-wave feminism gave women the career, which has made for a poor substitute for a happy family, home life, and community participation for most women.

Meanwhile, men have dropped out of the labor force in record numbers, in part because they can't find women with whom to form life partnerships and who they would support by having careers.

Now for the last part, which you normally won't hear on /r/MGTOW or the others. As it turns out, men aren't perfect. Like women, men have cheated, abused, lied, and behaved badly. The problems in society are caused by both men and women.

Should women even applaud second-wave or third-wave feminism? What gains if any have been made that make women's lives better? What is so great about having a career?