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To: meowmeow

I'm not sure the feminist movement had very much to do with any of those advancements you mention at all.
Long before the opportunistic "feminist movement" as it appeared in the US and some other Western democracies, there were still outstanding females doing things against even greater odds, because there was little social "consciousness" surrounding the "issue" ( it actually WASN'T an issue then, it was just an odd fact of life that there were women like (to name just a few ), Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, Sarah Bernhardt, Mary McCarthy. The feminist movement didn't "open" doors so much and blast the doorways open, making them wide enough to include great numbers of average women coming through along with the extraordinary individuals who were also women, to come through alongside them. These extraordinary women have always existed, even in the darkest days of female oppression, because they were INDIVIDUALS, and the feminists seized on the opportunity to create a sleight-of-hand to make it look like their consciousness-raising CREATED all female accomplishment that followed the arrival of feminism on the scene.


71 posted on 01/13/2006 9:41:14 AM PST by willyboyishere ("When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest")
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To: willyboyishere
The feminist movement didn't "open" doors so much and blast the doorways open, making them wide enough to include great numbers of average women coming through along with the extraordinary individuals who were also women, to come through alongside them.

Well said and you are right. I hadn't thought of it quite like that before. But I've always slightly suspected that if I was born 100 years ealier - or any time in history, I still would have accomplished the same things and snagged a sexy guy in my late 30s :)

It's good to be strong willed.

149 posted on 01/16/2006 1:40:44 PM PST by meowmeow (Meow! Meow!)
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