To those who had few employable skills and no means or desire to escape the confines of their homes, feminism seemed to denigrate their very identity and threaten their already precarious existence. It was better to play the cards they were dealt.
Perhaps because they could not find employment it was fear that led to no desire and a construct of blinders that kept them seeing feminism without fear. After all these women were in some ways brainwashed and incapable of seeing or desiring to escape the confines of their homes.
