quotes of the day

[niyad]

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

-- Adela Rogers St. John, 1974

I wish women would stand together and shackle the men who want to move us backwards.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/05calendar/a/0520calendar.htm

[patrice]

1. Don't you just love being told what you think?

[niyad]

2. in dale spender's book "there has always been a women's movement this century"

(meaning the 20th), she talks about the fact that women's accomplishments end up disappearing, that women themselves disappear from the record, and women end up thinking that, rather than reinventing the wheel, they are coming up with something new--because our record is hidden.

[patrice]

4. That's an example of what this woman has been thinking about how so many of us don't know that

we don't know what we don't know - because, as you observe, vital information is completely hidden in favor of top-down, "leader" driven, famous men stories, just like those told around hunter-gatherer campfires.

Re-listening to Zinn's A People's History of the US, lots of details there about hidden stuff, many of which he brings to bear on a rather critical look at "our" Constitution, in which women weren't even persons, as the wealth of this country was programmed, with the conscious and strategic assistance of legal slavery, for certain classes, who perhaps more than anything else just wanted out from under the control, and regulations, of British monarchy.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. "I wish women would stand together and shackle the men who want to move us backwards."

Absolutely.

[niyad]

5. and THAT is PRECISELY what they fear--that if women realized and took their power,

that men would receive the same treatment they have been dishing out all this time.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. There's always the possibility that we would...

but history suggests that it's unlikely to happen. Too bad no modern society will give it a shot.