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To: innocentbystander
Does that leadship also include leading other men into creating a society that is more welcoming to women? Must it be sharks to fight and not crude behavior? Cannot this protection extend to women other than their mate?

The article says a woman should not confuse her priorities. That if she focuses on a career, she developes different skills and attitudes that may not serve her well in the job of wife and mother. I'm wondering if perhaps it extends beyond that statement, beyond the workplace and into society itself. How does a women maintain her femininity in a world that seems to demand she tough it out, get used to it, get over it or leave.

I think there is a distiction between being hard and being strong. Women can be either or both. Men seem to value 'strong' but don't want 'hard' yet they don't seem to be willing to fight the battles that would maintain a society in which a woman need not harden herself. I have enjoyed this and will come back to it and read all the posts, but right now I have to finish the venison stew that I have been working on. Beleive it or not I did shoot the deer. I would have rather my husband had been here to drag it back and gut it though. (grin).

188 posted on 12/05/2001 2:52:55 PM PST by the_tisha_girl
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