Sublime

And there are elements in human psychology that make this situation particularly poignant or ignominous. The ugly exactitudes of business, the bells and clocks the fixed hours and rigid departments, were all meant for the male: who, as a rule, can only do one thing and can only with the greatest difficulty be induced to do that. If clerks do not tr

Seeing men as the human default is fundamental to the structure…

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Jeff,

Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must

‘humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself, but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being. […] He is the Subject,…

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Domestication moved people away from communal living and removed the social and connective aspects of all labor.

traditional gender roles

For our daughters, when the prosperity of industrialized countries allowed for the option of divorces in the ‘60’s and 70’s, women became liberated from marriage and motherhood as the sole definition of feminine purpose. Fortunately, feminism pro-actively filled women’s “purpose void” with visions of careers, liberation and equality. A woman’s new