ariastar
11-14-2006, 08:36 PM
This isn't meant to be a plug, but check this (http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Why_Women_Are_Exposing_Themselves/) out. I came by this link on a site I was reading for entertainment last night. Granted, the "entertainment" angered me a bit, saying that people who play video games are ruining their lives, that by having fun we are ruining our lives, etc. (I kid you not, video games and having fun and using cell phones and e-mail are apparently large reasons for why our lives suck), and then saw a link to that article. Part two of it, in the comments, is listed.
This article is like blaming the rape victim for wearing a skirt. It also demeans men, makes them out to be things incapable of rational thought and controlling their urges.
There are other ways young women can publicly demonstrate their distinct female identity -- for example, by wearing feminine clothing and other feminine behavior, being a wife, being pregnant and being a mother.
Oh my f'ing gods, so a way for women to express being a woman is to be pregnant? As if there aren't enough mouths to feed on this planet? Be a wife, be a mother, be a servant to everyone else. I guess a woman's sole role is to be barefoot and pregnant and a servant to a man who is capable of little else than trying to get some.
Likewise, the myriad ways in which men treated women as women -- such as opening doors for them -- all declared that women were feminine, i.e., different from masculine. That is why many feminists opposed men opening doors for women -- it reinforced notions of femininity, a value that feminism has sought to extinguish.
This idiot clearly doesn't know that feminism was originally intended to gain women equal rights. Being a feminist and being feminine are two different things. But what I'm reading in this segment is that woman are incapable of opening doors, so a man must do it for her. (I was raised that whoever reaches the door first typically opens and holds it.)
When all is said and done, heading a home and being married to a good man are far more satisfying to most women than college teaching or corporate work.
For some, not all. All women do not need men to be happy, and not all men need women to be happy. Sheesh! Some women aspire to find cures for cancer! Nope, better waste that mind and that aspiration to go have kids and stay at home all day while your mind goes a mile a second with curiousity and the desire to do more.
It is doubtful that women have ever been as naive about men as are large numbers of contemporary educated women. I believe that my grandmother who never went to school understood men better than the average female college graduate today.
Um, wrong. Women were just raised to never question a man, her education stemming only to what was needed to run a household and make babies. That she could even question was something she never thought to do as it was a concept never presented to her!
Gay men aren't even safe in this article.
Among egalitarians, being a wife is no different a role than that of husband, and motherhood is no longer regarded as distinctively female. Husbands and fathers are supposed to play identical roles, and because of the movement for gay equality, mothers have been declared unnecessary -- two fathers, most well educated people now contend, are every bit as good for a child as a mother and a father.
So...it's a bad thing for fathers to be equal in the lives of their children, despite current government stats that show that children raised only with a father do much better in life and are less likely to fall into drugs, teenage sex, etc., than children raised just with mothers. And somehow, being raised with two loving dads is worse than being raised by a mom who only had you because it's her duty as a woman to have babies.
Shall I go on? Just read these articles and see if you aren't as offended as I am. Men too.
This article is like blaming the rape victim for wearing a skirt. It also demeans men, makes them out to be things incapable of rational thought and controlling their urges.
There are other ways young women can publicly demonstrate their distinct female identity -- for example, by wearing feminine clothing and other feminine behavior, being a wife, being pregnant and being a mother.
Oh my f'ing gods, so a way for women to express being a woman is to be pregnant? As if there aren't enough mouths to feed on this planet? Be a wife, be a mother, be a servant to everyone else. I guess a woman's sole role is to be barefoot and pregnant and a servant to a man who is capable of little else than trying to get some.
Likewise, the myriad ways in which men treated women as women -- such as opening doors for them -- all declared that women were feminine, i.e., different from masculine. That is why many feminists opposed men opening doors for women -- it reinforced notions of femininity, a value that feminism has sought to extinguish.
This idiot clearly doesn't know that feminism was originally intended to gain women equal rights. Being a feminist and being feminine are two different things. But what I'm reading in this segment is that woman are incapable of opening doors, so a man must do it for her. (I was raised that whoever reaches the door first typically opens and holds it.)
When all is said and done, heading a home and being married to a good man are far more satisfying to most women than college teaching or corporate work.
For some, not all. All women do not need men to be happy, and not all men need women to be happy. Sheesh! Some women aspire to find cures for cancer! Nope, better waste that mind and that aspiration to go have kids and stay at home all day while your mind goes a mile a second with curiousity and the desire to do more.
It is doubtful that women have ever been as naive about men as are large numbers of contemporary educated women. I believe that my grandmother who never went to school understood men better than the average female college graduate today.
Um, wrong. Women were just raised to never question a man, her education stemming only to what was needed to run a household and make babies. That she could even question was something she never thought to do as it was a concept never presented to her!
Gay men aren't even safe in this article.
Among egalitarians, being a wife is no different a role than that of husband, and motherhood is no longer regarded as distinctively female. Husbands and fathers are supposed to play identical roles, and because of the movement for gay equality, mothers have been declared unnecessary -- two fathers, most well educated people now contend, are every bit as good for a child as a mother and a father.
So...it's a bad thing for fathers to be equal in the lives of their children, despite current government stats that show that children raised only with a father do much better in life and are less likely to fall into drugs, teenage sex, etc., than children raised just with mothers. And somehow, being raised with two loving dads is worse than being raised by a mom who only had you because it's her duty as a woman to have babies.
Shall I go on? Just read these articles and see if you aren't as offended as I am. Men too.