Feminism is hurting women more than it is hurting men. And the connection I am making to the Prohibition Era is not coincidental, either.

The modern-day doctrinaire feminist, if she could be transplanted back to the 1920s, would be an outspoken teetotaler.

Here is a little background information about the Prohibition Era:

"Prohibition received support among diverse groups. Progressives believed Prohibition would improve society as generally did women, southerners, those living in rural areas, and African Americans."

"The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) advocated the prohibition of alcohol as a method for preventing abuse from alcoholic husbands. One of the WCTU's methods to achieve that goal was education. WCTU members believed that if their organization could reach children with its message, it could create a dry sentiment leading to prohibition. Frances Willard, the second president of the WCTU, held the aims of the organization were to create a "union of women from all denominations, for the purpose of educating the young, forming a better public sentiment, reforming the drinking classes, transforming by the power of Divine grace those who are enslaved by alcohol, and removing the dram-shop from our streets by law." While still denied universal voting privileges, women in the WCTU followed Frances Willard's "Do Everything" doctrine and used temperance as a method of entering into politics and furthering other progressive issues such as prison reform and labor laws."

"As early as 1925, journalist H. L. Mencken believed that Prohibition was not working. As the prohibition years continued, more of the country’s populace came to see prohibition as illustrative of class distinctions, a law unfairly biased in its administration favoring social elites. "Prohibition worked best when directed at its primary target: the working-class poor." Historian Lizabeth Cohen writes: "A rich family could have a cellar-full of liquor and get by, it seemed, but if a poor family had one bottle of home-brew, there would be trouble.” Working-class people were inflamed by the fact that their employers could dip into a cache of private stock while they, the employees, were denied a similar indulgence."

"Rather than reducing crime, Prohibition transformed some cities into battlegrounds between opposing bootlegging gangs. In a study of more than thirty major U.S cities during the Prohibition years of 1920 and 1921, the number of crimes increased by 24 percent. Additionally, theft and burglaries increased by 9 percent, homicides by 12.7 percent, assaults and battery rose by 13 percent, drug addiction by 44.6 percent, and police department costs rose by 11.4 percent. This was largely the result of “black-market violence” and the diversion of law enforcement resources elsewhere. Despite the Prohibition movement's hope that outlawing alcohol would reduce crime, the reality was that the Volstead Act led to higher crime rates than were experienced prior to Prohibition and the establishment of a black market dominated by criminal organizations."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prohibition

Modern feminism's true impact on our culture and education system will only be felt in the next 15-20 years. Many of these changes will disproportionately hurt the working-class poor, particularly women.

And history repeats itself.