Columnist Dini Parayitam wrote Tuesday about the modern woman’s role in the workplace and at home. Given the overwhelming feedback, we devoted an entire column for as many responses as we could fit. Here’s what the Peanut Gallery had to say:Brandon Lee, English seniorI was so moved by your column that I feel obligated to offer you a place in my apartment. I have a small cubby under the stairs stuffed with a spare mattress and will even let you use my sheets (after I’ve used them of course). I will expect you to always have food prepared for me and promise to use strong physical force if you ever get out line (talking, laughing, sitting).This actually brings me to one serious issue I have with accepting you into my household: your column. I’d like to know which man gave you permission to write for a newspaper and have your face appear in The Reveille for thousands to see. In fact, I’d like to know who taught you to read. Of course I wouldn’t be that angry with him considering the fact that he obviously kept your priorities in the right place. Satire usually has some sort of point beyond the literal content, but yours just didn’t. Just the way I like my women.Michael Strain, sociology seniorWomen have been working outside the home alongside men since the industrial revolution — before then, both men and women worked together in the home. With the growth of baby boomers into adulthood, we have created a mythical home life that we believe everyone can live up to.There’s also quite a bit of ageism and abelism here. If the only desirable women are young and beautiful, where does that leave an older woman, or handicapped women? Are they unworthy of marriage?And what happens in a divorce? Parayitam clearly believes that stay-at-home mothers are better than working moms. This places motherhood on a pedestal, because only 6 percent of families still live under this model. I realize I’ve been long-winded about this, but here’s why. I work at the Battered Women’s Shelter in Baton Rouge. I’ve seen first-hand, on a regular basis, what happens when women become possessions of their husbands.  They’ve become little more than incubators in the best of scenarios, and sexual slaves/punching bags in the worst. These women range across class, race, education and age, so this isn’t just a poverty-level problem. To suggest that women must live in this way is not only impractical, it’s downright dangerous. Danielle Digilormo, psychology seniorI wonder what Dini is thinking everytime I read her column. Maybe you should try being the perfect house wife and see how you like it after years of “providing” and see how much satisfaction that brings you. So, Dini, why don’t you drop out school, if you hate it so much and go stay at home and “primp” so “society will benefit.” That is what you want, right?Brandon K. White, philosophy juniorGiven the overwhelmingly hostile response to Dini’s article, I felt as though I should turn to her defense. Whereas it is surely the case that Dini is in error for a number of reasons, most of her nay-sayers aren’t given her writing a fair reading.What you all miss is the glimmer of truth in her articles, despite the errors, and that glimmer of truth is entirely sufficient to make her writing valuable.She’s wrong about the role of women. That said, she raises a good point. Because of the feminist movement, men and women have been driven into a sort of competition with each other in a bad way, even with respect to relationships. Men and women want to be equal. In the end, though, there’s a house to be taken care of, and neither ends up taking on the responsibility, and the house is a mess, the children are in jail, and the ex-husband and ex-wife can scarcely stand themselves any more than they can stand each other.I’m not saying women shouldn’t be in the work force. It’s an economic reality that many women must work. That said, Dini is right: the feminists have tried to overturn traditional gender roles so much that now women are looked down upon for being housewives. Feminists haven’t made women free to choose what they want. They’ve merely given women a different set of chains by which to shackle themselves. Ultimately, I consider the feminists and I find myself quoting G.K. Chesterton: “… it [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”There is too much of a competitive, divisive atmosphere when it comes to the two sexes. Marriage isn’t supposed to be a competition. It’s supposed to be a mutual cooperation, but more. It’s supposed to be a real union whereby “two become one flesh.”Feminists only care about pursuing an agenda that ultimately hurts everyone, and gives advantage to nobody … except maybe unattractive lesbians, who can’t have families.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at [email protected]