Bring back the 1960's LOUD Obnoxious Feminist Protestors!!!
posted by vikingmother
I was growing up in the 1960's and 1970's when the media loved to cover the emerging women's movement. Now "NOW" wants to give college women a fat PEAR shape (years before kids & hormonal changes)!!!! But they say LITTLE on the MAJOR and DEADLY oppression of women...One scholar tells what happened to SIDETRACK many feminists!!!
And the media lovedto cover the protestors who were burning "oppressive" women's undergarments.
But REAL PROGRESS was made. The powerful 19th and early 20th century women's movement was revived, (in part--) and after all the noise, women's opportunities (tho still not the same) HAVE improved--somewhat.
The MAIN power women need is of course the chance to earn as much money as similarly trained/educated men. This lack of the ability to support both oneself and one's dependents...drives lots of other self and other-destructive choices in some women.
And there is still lots of crime against women, girls specifically (with stats that make it the BIGGEST "hate" crime of all) but at least some better laws were put in place.
BUT NOW WOMEN'S GROUPS are less loud and MOST DO NOT ADDRESS THE WORLDWIDE HORRORS SOME WOMEN SUFFER ...and I wondered WHY (as I remembered the LOUD protests of the 1960's feminists???)
This woman writes a COMPELLING piece to show how and WHY many women's studies scholars and many of the womens groups are NOW sidetracked from the key issues of women's chance at equal earnings AND safety from personal attacks...
...And the most ABSURD thing is NOW's latest college compaign, (I kid you not!) to persuade college women to eat a lot and become PEAR SHAPED! Read the link & see!
And the media lovedto cover the protestors who were burning "oppressive" women's undergarments.
But REAL PROGRESS was made. The powerful 19th and early 20th century women's movement was revived, (in part--) and after all the noise, women's opportunities (tho still not the same) HAVE improved--somewhat.
The MAIN power women need is of course the chance to earn as much money as similarly trained/educated men. This lack of the ability to support both oneself and one's dependents...drives lots of other self and other-destructive choices in some women.
And there is still lots of crime against women, girls specifically (with stats that make it the BIGGEST "hate" crime of all) but at least some better laws were put in place.
BUT NOW WOMEN'S GROUPS are less loud and MOST DO NOT ADDRESS THE WORLDWIDE HORRORS SOME WOMEN SUFFER ...and I wondered WHY (as I remembered the LOUD protests of the 1960's feminists???)
This woman writes a COMPELLING piece to show how and WHY many women's studies scholars and many of the womens groups are NOW sidetracked from the key issues of women's chance at equal earnings AND safety from personal attacks...
...And the most ABSURD thing is NOW's latest college compaign, (I kid you not!) to persuade college women to eat a lot and become PEAR SHAPED! Read the link & see!
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