Letters to the Editor
LeCastor
Published Letters: 1916 Editor's Choice: 86
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The "Virtue" Strangehold on Women
[Read the article: Unhappily ever after]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LeCastor:
"But now that women are doing the same thing, it's open season for predicting the downfall of society"
Right. Because it was wrong when men did it. So we're supposed to applaud when women decide that's the way to go too? I thought the idea of (true) feminism was to make the world better - not worse?
Why has feminism produced "girls just wanna have fun" and Madonna's big cone titties instead of many other contributions that anyone can see are positive? Why the acsendancy of New Age jargon and alternative medicines that don't work but they're still devoted to - like that woman who wrote in to say water is her cure of choice?
Where's the actual thinking in all of this?
I'd think college educated women would want to be more circumspect of the culture they're creating if they are going to willfully change society to meet their needs - not just go for wholesale destruction in the way wayward men have. Why use them as an example, like two wrongs could ever make a right?
-- Louis Dixon
Why is there is "virture" requirement on women? It permeates a lot of what people say. Your definition of "better" seems pretty rigid -- I think feminism's goals was to win more freedom for women to choose what to do with their lives, more autonomy. And that includes cone tits.
Allegedly, everything that emanates from women has to be "good" or "improving" -- few people see the value in fighting for freedom of choice. The idea that women have to be virtuous in everything they do is antiquated -- why does feminism have to procude only what fits into a narrow definition of "'benefit"? What's wrong with it producing more orgasms, more travel, more freedom to do what you want? That's what I support.
Also, i really don't know anything about New Age anything -- it seems it's a separate issue.
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Virtue Requirement Continued
[Read the article: Unhappily ever after]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LeCastor,
There's no virtue requirement for women - there's a virtue requirement for all of us to make a decent society to raise kids in. And the Suffragette Movement started so women would be respected for their minds - not the size of, or how much they expose, their tits. As Sojourner Truth (who was conventionally ugly) said "Ain't I a woman?" She wasn't fighting for Girls Gone Wild though that's a "choice" today. (Orgasms, and more travel, while nice are, ultimately, supremely shallow concerns.) As I'm sure you know, with freedom comes responsibility and to reject that makes women the ones who are children.
Orgasms are a shallow concern? Maybe for some, but for most people, having a healthy sex life is very important. The Suffragettes were also the same people who fought for prohibition, and that same strain of feminism (the puritanical, prude kind) later fought against pornography. Ultimately, both were fighting to limit people's individual choices (to drink, to make your life by selling alcohol, to watch porn, to make your life by doing porn).
Plus "a decent society to raise kids in" that may be a goal for a lot of people, but as i am sure you know, the definitions of "decent" and whether we should even be striving for "decency," are all up in the air, and are very personal. Raising children in an environment where they are not exposed to this shallow concern or "indecency" may be important to some, but to me, what is important is what kinds of choices those children have once they grow up. And I don't support goals that include telling men and women that sex and orgasms aren't important, that no one, especially women, should ever put professional success above their "family," whatever that may mean. Success in personal endavours that are not part of raising a family is important for all people -- just read the feminine mystique or urbanbaby.com message boards. Women who go to colelge and then stay at home with children are quite often not happy there.