David Horowitz had a different view on Friedan:

Feminism's Dirtiest Secret
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com
June 9, 2000
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1096

excerpts:

Betty Friedan presented herself in The Feminine Mystique-the 1963 book that launched modern feminism-as a suburban housewife who had never given a thought to "the woman question," until she attended a Smith College reunion which revealed the dissatisfaction of her well-educated female classmates, unable to balance traditional roles with modern careers. But, as Smith College professor Daniel Horowitz (no relation) revealed in his book Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminist Mystique, Betty was not very candid about the facts of her own life and the sources of her radical perspective. She was hardly a suburban housewife when she wrote those words, but a twenty-five year veteran of professional journalism in the Communist Left, where she had been thoroughly indoctrinated in the politics of "the woman question" and specifically the idea that women were "oppressed."

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Not at all a neophyte when it came to the "woman question" (the phrase itself is a marxist construction), she was certainly familiar with the writings of Engels, Lenin, and Stalin on the subject and had written about it herself as a journalist for the official publication of the communist-controlled United Electrical Workers union. Friedan's secret was shared by hundreds of her comrades on the Left - though not, of course, by the unsuspecting American public - who went along with her charade presumably as a way to support her political agenda. The actual facts of Friedan's life-that she was a professional marxist ideologue, that her husband supported her full-time writing and research, that she had a maid and lived in a Hudson river mansion, attending very little to household duties-were inconvenient to the persona and the theory she was determined to promote.

You're totally wrong about Friedan Mitch.

She was a hateful commie. That's not just name-calling that is a fact. I would call that being hostile to American values.

She was a liar and had a pernicious influence on this country.

May she rot in hell.