Marian Kester Coombs

In the following viewpoint, Marian Kester Coombs contends that society is declining because motherhood is no longer respected, especially by women. She argues that motherhood was once viewed as a valuable role for women and served as a way to humanize children. However, Coombs maintains, modern feminism now wants to destroy femininity and motherhood in order to make women as masculine, if not more so, than men. She asserts that the result of this feminist movement will be a violent, cynical, and pagan society. Coombs is a freelance writer for the Washington Times and Chronicles.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How does the author define masculism?
2. In Coombs’s view, how do many girls escape the regendering program?
3. What does the author find most unsettling about modern youth"

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