ShaktiSama
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Wow. A "missionary" for Women's Lib? Yeah...that story sounds real probable. In my experience, most of the people who have time to devote to women's issues are a little busy for that kind of thing. Usually they're standing guard at family planning clinics, to keep the patriarchal mainstream from harassing the patients, murdering the doctors, and bombing the facilities. Sometimes, when things in Abortion Land get slow, all those Feminazis hustle on over to the Rape Crisis Line or the shelters for battered women to volunteer. Since all these facilities are already understaffed and overstressed at all times, virtually everywhere on the planet Earth, I find it a little difficult to believe that any women's right activists really have time for door-to-door "missionary" work. Whatever. Women who want to submit in their personal relationships or sex lives don't bother me--it's just another personal choice that women should be free to make, and men as well. But the societal expectation that all women should be the submissive party in any relationship between women and men--at home, at work, in politics, in religion, etc--most certainly does bother me. And I see absolutely no sign that this societal expectation has lessened since 1980. If anything, the upcoming generations of young American men seem to be getting worse, not better, in their treatment of women and their expectations of them--at least judging by the way they talk about and treat young women their own age. And housework and childrearing duties are still largely performed by women in a relationship, whether those women work outside the home or not. And in the USA, women's rights to reproductive choice are being rescinded everywhere as rapidly as the religious right can arrange it. They'll likely go after a woman's right to vote too, if they see the need. I would predict a huge upsurge in pulpit-pounding against female participation in politics, if Hillary Clinton gets even moderately close to being elected president based on the female vote.
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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