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Are Women Human? by Catharine MacKinnon in Herizons
In acknowledgement of the fact that women are actually included in the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, but our mostly male media and our President forgot to notice, Catharine MacKinnon's ovarian Are Women Human? seems painfully appropriate.
An excerpt:
It takes a lot of imagination -- and a determinedly blinkered focus on exceptions at the privileged margins -- to envision a real woman in the Universal Declaration's majestic guarantees of what 'everyone is entitled to'. After fifty years, just what part of 'everyone' doesn't mean us?
The ringing language in Article 1 encourages us to 'act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.' Must we be men before its spirit includes us? Lest this be seen as too literal, if we were all enjoined to 'act towards one another in a spirit of sisterhood,' would men know it meant them, too? . . . And now that 'everyone' has had a right 'to take part in the government of his country' for the past fifty years, why are most governments still run by men? Are women silent in the halls of state because we do not have a human voice?
When will women be human? When?
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Another article well worth reading -- We sure have not progressed very far. This article is a great read if anyone wants to know where all the prejudices against women came from and realize how women themselves have bought into it.
When people looked at the Gonzales sisters, or their pictures, they saw beasts or monsters as well as young women, but this was also true when they looked at most women. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, whose ideas were still powerful in the sixteenth century, had described women as imperfect men, the result of something wrong with the conception that created them—their parents were too young or too old, or too diverse in age, or one of them was not healthy. Nature always aimed at perfection, and Aristotle termed anything less than perfect “monstrous”; a woman was thus “a deformity, but one which occurs in the ordinary course of nature.”
This is taken from: nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/hairy_marvels_and_beastly_sex
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...not quite. We're partly human but a lesser subspecies due to our physical anatomy. Of course, our mental make-up isn't too good, either, what with going crazy once a month and all. We're good enough to perpetuate the species but we're not going to be allowed any significant input into where it's going.
Bitter? Me? Yes. We pride ourselves on being the most advanced nation on earth. But Pakistan ( Pakistan, for chrissake) has had a female prime minister. India, Israel, Germany, The Philippines, Great Britain, Iceland have all been headed by women.
I'll believe women are viewed as full humans the day the president signs the Equal Rights Amendment. Until that happens, all discussion of women's rights is nothing more than hot air.
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Well said, Creeper, but I don't think having an equal rights amendment will do it although I'd sure like to see it.
First off, women must start to push back instead of concentrating on pushing up their chest glands.
What I'm saying is if we continue as a gender to lay down with a kick me sign on us, we'll continue to be kicked.
I wrote about this last night around 11 pm while I watched the Yankees win Game 2 of the Series.
I will post it later if Hampy will indulge me, and/or if the content is not too repetitive.
In marketing there is no such thing as too much repetition. Not sure what that has to do with here but I'm on my 6th day without caffeine so don't anyone yell at me.
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Done!
And wow - caffeine withdrawal is horrible. Amazing how we are a nation of addicts to this powerful drug and we don't see it that way. Good for you for taking the plunge!
unless I like it. I going back into the Atkins diet the right way this time. No booze either. But after the 2 week induction I'll have a stiff Maker's Mark with a coffee chaser
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Good luck.
P.S. Giving up caffeine would be out of the question in this household. We run on coffee.
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This week I've almost been fired twice and the spousal unit is ready to shoot me. But I feel fine
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the Amelia Earhart movie. One male person had this to say about it:
Indeed one of the more dazzling (and true) scenes from the film involves Earhart taking then First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on an impromptu late-night flight over the nation's capital--two iconic women leaders looking down over the most powerful city in the world.
Earhart was ahead of her time, striking the word "obey" from her wedding vows and noting firmly but with affection that her marriage was a "partnership" of "dual control."
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-glickman/amelia-earhart-a-differen_b_333658.html
Amelia was my childhood hero. I had received a much desired world-globe for Christmas and I followed her flight, drawing a line on the globe each evening when the news came on the radio of her progress.
I was devistated when the word came that she and co-pilot were lost and can still see how my line stopped and the big "no!" I wrote beside it. I really loved the ST-Voyager epp with a great story line about what happened to Amelia.
Yes, girls and women too can have heroes that go out and do things. The stuff for girls on TV now would have appalled many of my generation for the stifling of adventure and conditioning to be fembots.
Amelia Earhart belonged to the National Woman's Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman%27s_Party ) and supported passage of ERA from the get go. Maybe Congress will be inspired by this movie and finally pass the ERA? (won't hold my breath!)