Yet another way in which second-wave feminism ticks me off...

[katiebgood]

Something I've been thinking about recently- the differences between the way we teach girls about boys and teach boys about girls. When we teach boys about girls, it usually involves listing great women through history, a basic understanding of what it means to respect women, a discussion on how not to treat women as sex objects, and at least a

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Re: Indeed!

[katiebgood]

Here's a secret for you, Chris: most women only have one thing on their minds, too. We just have centuries of forced self-control behind us. And I did say that most of what we're teaching little girls is right; I just wanted to point out that while we're claiming to work towards equality, that's not actually what's being put into practice. I heard myself say to a guy "Someone trained you well" recently, and wanted to smack myself, thus the rant.

So you agree with me about the reform thing. Good. :) (Nice timely quoting of Matthew, by the way; new church years are fun, aren't they?)

Jim Wallis actually delivered a graduation speech at my seminary recently- he is apparently at least capable of temporary sanity. And I don't want all right-wingers out of politics, remember- technically, I am one.