Oh WELL DONE! :))
really!


> Lezlie's Short Treatise n Feminism
>
> There was a time when the problem of women was that women insisted upon
not
> Doing What Was Expected, or conversely, What Was Expected.  Who expected
this,
> you might ask? A non-gendered overarching Eminence called Tradition -- or,
> sometimes, Society. Women were alternately praised and condemned for their
> conformity or non-conformity for several centuries.  Tradition and
Expectations
> changed over the centuries; it is to be mentioned, for both men and women.
One
> day, in the early 1960s, someone (it was a woman) noticed that the
Traditions
> and Expectations of women (and, men) were changing once again and there
were
> those who hated it and those who praised it. Unfortunately, there were
also
> those who misrepresented the following decades of upheaval to include a
Great
> Deal of Nonsense and Unrelated Matter. What was this feminism? Primarily,
it
> was a civil rights movement that built upon the decades before the World
Wars
> when it was called "suffrage".  A lot of material was generated in
literature
> and scholarly works called "feminist theory" that critiqued a Lot of
Stuff.
> Some of it was very technical (as in psychoanalysis); some legal, (as in
the
> modernization of the divorce and property ownership laws); some had to do
with
> more slippery topics like media representations and reviews of cultural
> expectations. Some was silly, some valuable, and some will have to be
revisited
> in a later age.
>
> In the relationship area, thing became Quite Confusing. Particularly for
actual
> men and women. Particularly if said men and women were engaging in
> relationships. This has not yet been resolved, except in individual cases.
This
> will take some time to sort our, and will cause some hurt feelings,
> misunderstanding and scared people along the way. One hopes that, in the
> process, Good Things will also come from this: an end to domestic violence
> (toward both genders), some thought about allowing personal choice and
freedom
> as to how to order one's relationships (marriage or no, gay or straight,
other
> cultural definitions, etc.),  and maybe the giving up of some Long Held
> Traditional Illusions Concerning Love. Could authentic encounter and love
that
> is free of illusion enter into this picture? maybe.... just maybe. Given
time,
> patience and a willingness to contemplate and act. Maybe we will also gain
some
> understanding of exacly what equality is, and that is the $600,000
question.
> Hugs -- hang in there. Lezlie
>

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