Bonnie,
Have you ever read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? It was written in
1986 and I didn't read it back then. But it's become popular again now.
Guess why. And a TV mini-series was made from it. So I just read it. It's
the story of the US having been turned into a theocracy called Gilead where
women are at home, breeding children. For families in which the wife is
barren, a fertile woman is supplied to bear the babies. There's a lot more
to the story than that, but you get the point.
Miriam
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Sherrell
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The Battle Over What It Means to Be Female
I know that my son-in-law subscribed to the school of thought that conceives
of women as being too emotional to properly care for themselves--in spite of
the fact that due to his multiple biochemical and personality disorders and
his multiple addictions he'd not been able for years to keep a job, while
his wife had to work to support the family. Same with the family doctor we
saw when I was a kid. He felt women needed their emotions to be controlled
chemically, even if he had to lie to my mother about what he was prescribing
for her and why. Then my younger grandson is the same way, and at seventeen
tried to bully his mother into not doing what he disapproved of.
We've come a long way, baby, only to find our male chauvinist pig of a
president and his fellows are doing their best to shove us back into staying
home, barefoot. pregnant, and illiterate.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very
wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!