"Udder Side", claims, "You can't be a person living in the 40's -- seeing a reflection of what this art meant at that time. You can't see past right here and now. You're stuck."
"Grumpy Old Codger" makes the same mistake.
Actually I can see what it meant for people living in the 40s. It meant horrible oppression for women. That meaning does not change with time.
Sexism does not age into a smooth brandy. It does not become funny. Fortunately time, or more accurately a vocal and militant women’s rights movement buoyed by the anti-war movement in the 60s and 70s has changed some things for women. Silence in the face of sexism would have left us in the same sexist mindsets of the McCarthy era 50s when husbands were encouraged to check their unruly wives into mental hospitals for electro-shock “therapy�.
"Grumpy Old Codger" claims, "There IS life outside your Women's Studies Class. I hope you find it." I much prefer a society where we now do have women's studies classes and some expectation of equality in employment. This did not come about by laughing at this kind of sexist (not sexual) crap.
Pass The ERA! No to the confirmation of Roberts! For a boycott of the the Seabright Brewery until some feminist art is displayed or the sexist is taken down!
Old Stinky Sexism Is Not Better Than The New
Date Edited: 06 Sep 2005 04:59:03 AM
"Grumpy Old Codger" makes the same mistake.
Actually I can see what it meant for people living in the 40s. It meant horrible oppression for women. That meaning does not change with time.
Sexism does not age into a smooth brandy. It does not become funny. Fortunately time, or more accurately a vocal and militant women’s rights movement buoyed by the anti-war movement in the 60s and 70s has changed some things for women. Silence in the face of sexism would have left us in the same sexist mindsets of the McCarthy era 50s when husbands were encouraged to check their unruly wives into mental hospitals for electro-shock “therapy�.
"Grumpy Old Codger" claims, "There IS life outside your Women's Studies Class. I hope you find it." I much prefer a society where we now do have women's studies classes and some expectation of equality in employment. This did not come about by laughing at this kind of sexist (not sexual) crap.
Pass The ERA! No to the confirmation of Roberts! For a boycott of the the Seabright Brewery until some feminist art is displayed or the sexist is taken down!
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