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Post by Tamrin on Jan 10, 2009 11:40:58 GMT 10
Gender TheoryOne is not born a woman, one becomes oneSimone de Beauvoir There is more difference within the sexes than between themIvy Compton-Burnett Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest inventionCornelia Otis Skinner However, the bloke in the frilly dress denounces Gender Theory as if it were akin to evolutionary or heliocentric theories!?
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Post by maximus on Jan 10, 2009 17:16:24 GMT 10
I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't pat attention to anything said by a guy in a dress.
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 12, 2009 6:26:22 GMT 10
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girlsAnne Frank(Born this day 1929) [Quotation also attributed to Anthony Hope (1863 - 1933)]
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 1, 2009 10:33:06 GMT 10
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women ... is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women
The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him
To the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy... we must think instead of how to live in a two-sex world so that each sex will benefit from each expression of the presence of two sexes
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a manMargaret MeadInstead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 7, 2009 19:05:19 GMT 10
The personality of each man and each woman is not a static entity but a dynamic phenomenon resulting from the interplay between feminine and masculine elements. This view of human nature is in sharp contrastr to that of our patriarchal culture, which has established a rigid order in which all men are supposed to be masculine and all women feminine, and has distorted the meaning of those terms by giving men the leading roles and most of society's privileges
Fritjof Capra The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture, 1983, p.19
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 14, 2009 7:38:35 GMT 10
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien cultureKate Millett(Born this day 1934) Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 23, 2009 6:59:10 GMT 10
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretlyVictoria Woodhull(Born this day 1838) While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2010 8:51:59 GMT 10
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades
Tillie Olsen (Born this day 1913)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2010 13:51:46 GMT 10
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine
Susan Sontag (Born this day 1933)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2010 12:29:52 GMT 10
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine
Germaine Greer (Born this day 1939)
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