Comments on: 20th Century Sexism

By: averagegoddess

averagegoddess — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:42:26 +0000

“Its not about what women do, it’s about the ability to chose to do it. ”

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

By: averagegoddess

averagegoddess — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:41:05 +0000

Fiona – I find it even more amazing that it came from a company we consider one of the icons of American society! And yes, it does seem like something that should be beyond current memory, doesn’t it?

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:47:22 +0000

It’s crazy that it hasn’t really been to long since this occured.
How can one sex be more creative than the other?
Women and men are differnet in some aspects, but both are equally as important and valuble.

By: RavenWolf

RavenWolf — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:42:49 +0000

I am a modern house wife and non-mother and love it.

Its not about what women do, it’s about the ability to chose to do it. It is also true about men. In order to change human roles in society, one must be willing to sacrifice comfort to bring about change.

About the post, it sucks that women were treated so. But we have to live in the now. I have a 21 year old female friend who told me she feared a female president. I nearly slapped her. But then I went to my patient place and asked her why she thought that?

She said women are so emotional and irrational, they could blow up the world on a bad PMS day. I laughed and mentioned all the wars, violence and pain our heroic men leaders have lad us through. But I had to remember she had just gone through puberty. Fresh emotions.

I told her as you age experience and time help you manage those emotions and we look for that in our leaders. Mature, stability, whether they be male or female.

I don’t know if that made her think, but it made me think, what are we teaching our young women?

By: averagegoddess

averagegoddess — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:42:09 +0000

Ok, well maybe not so much with the firing squad… but I’ll give you arrested. Your point is very valid and well taken! A big HOORAH for progress on both sides of the gender aisle then!

By: Radek

Radek — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:51:12 +0000

Don’t you think that it wasn’t discrimination of women as such? Rather discrimination of feminine values as the people who were forced to fight and die were always men. Whether they liked it or not, and not women. A man couldn’t kust say I want to stay civilian – he would have been court martialled and sentenced to firing squad. He wasn’t allowed to be put forth his feminine side

By: Amalthea

Amalthea — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:22:42 +0000

I think the paper is so very pretty! I can’t even imagine having to live then. In some ways it must have been easier and simpler when every woman was supposed to have two jobs: wife and mother. It’s wonderful to think how far we’ve come from that and to think that those of us who read that in shock are those who continue to pave the way for more positive changes in the future.