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What It Takes To Be A Woman (Barf Alert)
The Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2007 | Laura Sessions Stepp

Posted on 10/06/2007 5:40:33 PM PDT by khnyny

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To: khnyny
Unreconstructed '60s feminists we may be,

Maybe modern women think the feminists are a bunch of harpies and want to have nothing to do with them.

41 posted on 10/06/2007 7:46:17 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: 2111USMC; PennsylvaniaMom

I worked at a mortgage company in the mid-1970’s and they were just beginning to use Ms, LOL.

The big debate was: should we used a period at the end.

Some customers would write back requesting that we use Mrs. There was much anger because those bra-burners were forcing stuff on the rest of us.


42 posted on 10/06/2007 7:47:01 PM PDT by donna (Equal justice for U.S. citizens!)
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To: domenad
What boring tripe

Amen. If I read the words "feminist", "feminism", "feminist studies" anymore I'm going to make that barf alert come true. Nobody in the real word uses those words. They are the vernacular of left wing college professors and media wobbleheads. You don't hear that kind of talk anywhere else. Thank goodness.

43 posted on 10/06/2007 7:54:59 PM PDT by groanup (http://www.fairtax.org/PDF/AnOpenLettertothePresident051606.pdf)
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To: maine-iac7

My thoughts exactly. What femininity???


44 posted on 10/06/2007 8:02:19 PM PDT by susannah59
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To: taxcontrol
words of wisdom .... even after you are 75, call her your girlfriend / lover / wife as if all three have the same meaning. Tell her it still feels like you are dating.

It will earn you big brownie points.

LOL.

Good advice, right out of "The Husband's Handbook", Chapter 4, Paragraph 6, Subparagraph 6.14, List Item C.

That book has worked well for me, coming up on 41 years of marriage.

45 posted on 10/06/2007 8:06:25 PM PDT by Col Freeper
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To: TN4Liberty
True. They could say "the girls and I," and be gramatically correct while still annoying the feminists.

LOL!

46 posted on 10/06/2007 8:13:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: NemoDog

Just find the most the most used bathroom and let it soak for a week in the sink.


47 posted on 10/06/2007 8:14:17 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (WWII. "I built a slit trench, a mortar shell came in one side and blew me out the other")
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To: SuziQ
Uh, because they haven't worked themselves into a tizzy about being female, as you and your feminist friends did when you were their age. I have always, and still do, call my female friends 'girls', and I'm well into my 50's. Not all of us bought into the feminist carp in the late 60's and into the 70's.

I agree. My identity isn't so fragile that it's going to be damaged by being called "girl" instead of "woman."

I did skim the rest of the article. She quoted one young female as saying "we're afraid to be women." I think "afraid to be grown-ups" would be more accurate.

48 posted on 10/06/2007 8:15:55 PM PDT by susannah59
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

***And “Ms.” Just calligraphied some shower invites (for a friend) and I was told to use Miss or Mrs....as no one uses Ms. anymore. Whatev!***

Good to hear. But it will always be Ms. in the business world. There is NO way firms are going to rev up the computer lists and change the Ms. to Mrs., especially when they don’t even know who is which.


49 posted on 10/06/2007 8:29:16 PM PDT by kitkat (I refuse to let the DUers chase me off FR.)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

UGH! I don’t know which is worse? You posting that picture here or the fact you have that picture available to post at all.


50 posted on 10/06/2007 8:30:42 PM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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To: wastedyears

What you should do is joke around with women that laugh real loud in a foreign country. Down the busiest street you can find. And everybody blows their horns. Tell your sweetheart to wiggle her ass. You can safely cross the street at that time.


51 posted on 10/06/2007 8:31:49 PM PDT by BobS (I><P>)
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To: Beagle8U
And, at 75 they will be REAL brownies! She will bake you some!

Don't count on it. For one thing, I lost my Katharine Hepburn brownie recipe and she's dead so I can't get it again. Secondly, my glasses get steamed up when I open the oven.

52 posted on 10/06/2007 8:33:46 PM PDT by lakey (Duncan Hunter '08 for President!)
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To: BobS

I don’t understand that.


53 posted on 10/06/2007 8:39:02 PM PDT by wastedyears (George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
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To: khnyny
...but we insisted on being called women when we were their age --...

Yup. Neurotic as heck.

54 posted on 10/06/2007 9:24:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do.)
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To: muir_redwoods
Because they're not self-hating, dried up old witches with attitude problems?

************

QUOTING THE ARTICLE:

...and were ready to pounce on any guy who didn't go along with us so we could reveal him to be the male chauvinist that he was.

*******

There seems to be a flat-lined learning curve here...

These chicks were so busy being assertive, intelligentsia-chic, poltically-correct and in-your-face--permanently angry/b*tchy/PMS-stressed....

They couldn't get invited to the demolition derby on a rainy Saturday night...

***********

55 posted on 10/06/2007 9:37:17 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: muir_redwoods
Because they're not self-hating, dried up old witches with attitude problems?

Perfect! I am 38 and I refer to myself and my girlfriends as "girls" all the time...and I am in no way a "self hating, dried up old witch with an attitude problem"! :) (I certainly can be a B--tch at times, but that's not always a bad thing! In fact my personal motto is: "You say I'm a B--tch like it's a bad thing" hehe! ;D

56 posted on 10/06/2007 9:44:38 PM PDT by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: khnyny

I do it and I’m 51..I call my girl friend...I see my friend and I say hey girl..sheesh, is it a federal crime or something?


57 posted on 10/06/2007 9:46:52 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: upsdriver
UGH! I don’t know which is worse? You posting that picture here or the fact you have that picture available to post at all.

Hay lookie, I tried to apologize beforehand but y'all wouldn't listen to me. This thread was just begging, begging for that horrid picture to get posted, and so I complied .... I feel no shame about it. /laughs

58 posted on 10/06/2007 10:55:45 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: muir_redwoods

LOL (Great tagline too)


59 posted on 10/07/2007 3:59:47 AM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("We just can't trust the American people to make the correct choices."-Hillary)
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To: khnyny
Jenny Ouellet, a 24-year-old who has seen her share of hard times, recognizes that. She wrote to me a month ago from her home in northern Massachusetts, fed up with a lack of confidence she was seeing in some of the young women she knew.

It's not that she didn't know how they felt. When she graduated from high school, she traveled with rock bands, lost the man of her dreams and ended up with 32 tattoos and a baby. She went to work in a music store, started paying off debts, learned how to cook and is raising her little boy, now 3, by herself, with some financial support from the boy's father.

Making a life for herself and her son, virtually alone, forced her to realize who she was and what she was capable of as a female.

"It's not what I wear or how I do my hair," she wrote me. "I'm convinced it's that I carry myself with confidence. I don't feel like I'm the all-around perfect catch, but I've been through enough to know I'm a great mother, a loving daughter, an honest friend, a great lover and someday, I'll make a great wife. You grow into the title of woman."

YIKES!!!! Head for the hills, boys!!!!

If she was a car, it would be on a "buy here, pay here" lot.

You grow into the title of woman."

This is growth worthy of a petri dish.

She lived like a tramp, in all truth. She can tell herself what she wants now, but that does not change the past.

She's not beyond redemption, no one is, is she seeks it. All the other stuff is just empty minded fluff and I reject it on principle.

I married a Latina "Donna Reed". Real women still exist, and in America, mostly as conservatives.

My mind is just reeling from the way people can create their own alternate reality. This isn't "womanhood", this is a nightmare.

60 posted on 10/07/2007 4:33:16 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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