"What if I talked like a woman right here in public?"

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Nothing much, but I just noticed that The Humanity Initiative has Ursula K. Le Guin's 1983 commencement address at Mills as one of their most inspiring commencement speeches. Toni Morrison's 2004 speech at Wellesley is their third-highest ranked, but I thought some of you might find Le Guin's interesting since it's lesser-known and contains this passage (underlining mine):If we want to live as women, some separatism is forced upon us: Mills College is a wise embodiment of that separatism. The war-games world wasn't made by us or for us; we can't even breathe the air there without masks. And if you put the mask on you'll have a hard time getting it off. So how about going on doing things our own way, as to some extent you did here at Mills? Not for men and the male power hierarchy - that's their game. Not against men, either - that's still playing by their rules. But with any men who are with us: that's our game. Why should a free woman with a college education either fight Macho-man or serve him? Why should she live her life on his terms?
Wow. Surprised I hadn't found this before. I'm still mulling it over. What's interesting to me is that I believed this was a recent speech until I noticed the date on the page...

Anyway, thoughts?

Edit: Le Guin (Radcliffe '51) is a science fiction writer, for those unaware.