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[x_sunday_girl_x]

what is a man, anyway? everything i see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. but everything i see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money. maybe these two are related, because making money in our world often requires careful avoidance of screwing and killing, so maybe the culture provides the

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[icedemon87]

'one advantage to being a despised species is that you have freedom, freedom to be any crazy thing you want. if you listen to a group of housewives talk, you'll hear a lot of nonsense, some it really crazy. this comes, i think, from being alone so much, and pursuing 'your own odd train of thought without impediment, which some call discipline. the result is craziness, or brilliance. ordinary women come out with the damnedest truth. you ignore them at your own risk. and they're permitted to go on making wild statements without being put away in one kind of jail or another (some of them anyway) because everyone knows they're crazy, and powerless too. if a woman is religious or earthy, passive or wildly assertive, loving or hating, she doesn't get much more flak than if she isn't; her choices lie between being castigated as a ball and chain or as a whore.'

I really like that paragraph, and the last one too. In fact I like all of it. (and I'm no feminist :P)

[x_sunday_girl_x]

mm, i'm not particularly feminist either, and so much of that book's outdated, but something in it really appealed to me.

[camie_girl]

"women are trying hard these days to get out from under the images that have been imposed on them. the difficulty is that there is just enough truth in the images that to repudiate them often involves repudiating also part of what you really are."

I think that can be so true. Today, it's sort of like you have to pick a side. You're either the fiercely independent type or the homemaker type. It's difficult to be both sometimes. I think women did it to themselves though. Not that I'm much of a feminist either, but I did like the whole thing.

[allesinside]

So what am I not supposed to have an opinion