[donna]

Those voices you hear telling you women are inferior are coming from the base of Feminism:

“The place of the family as a shut-in petty enterprise was to be occupied, according to the plans, by a finished system of social care and accommodation: maternity houses, creches, kindergartens, schools, social dining rooms, social laundries, first-aid stations, hospitals, sanatoria, athletic organizations, moving-picture theaters, etc. The complete absorption of the housekeeping functions of the family by institutions of the socialist society...”
- Leon Trotsky -

[Nepeta]

Those voices you hear telling you women are inferior are coming from the base of Feminism:

Uh, no, they're not. I'm old enough to have been told in college that there was no reason for me to study physics because I was just going to get married. I'm old enough to have looked for a job under "Jobs, Male" because that's where the technical/scientific jobs were listed. I'm old enough to have been told [at Procter & Gamble] that young, single males deserved raises because someday they would be supporting a family, and that single females did not because someday men would be supporting them. None of this has anything to do with Trotsky or shrieking feminists, and everything to do with unfairness that was legal at the time. I don't want to go back to having to explain to potential employers why I wanted a job even though I was married. I know people who believed all of the above was just and fair are still around, and still believe there is nothing wrong with their beliefs.

This isn't about Trotsky. Or Alinsky. Or any of the howling feminists. Some women deserve no respect. But some of us DO, and are as thoughtful as any conservative male, and NO LESS dedicated to conservative principles.