Big Oversight
How soon they forget, apparently.
The New Yorker has an article about Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique (1963), and in it wonders why that book had such an effect when Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1953) didn't - AND IT NEVER MENTIONS OR SEEMS TO EVEN CONSIDER BIRTH CONTROL PILLS (on the US market starting in about 1960, in wide use in 1963). WTF?
Labels: Dept. of Mystification, Dept. of Stating the Obvious
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- 2:14 PM
- 2:14 PM
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gaa my comment got way too long and complicated...but YES
i wuz gonna mention the New Yorker article about the degradation over time of results of scientific experiments..did ya read that?
LT
i wuz gonna mention the New Yorker article about the degradation over time of results of scientific experiments..did ya read that?
LT
# posted by 
: 27 January, 2011 17:08
: 27 January, 2011 17:08
I read both books thousands of years ago, and I recall the bitter feelings of those times. Now I see that both genders were then limited by their roles and thereby cut off from full human development.
# posted by : 27 January, 2011 17:32
: 27 January, 2011 17:32
Yes, I did read it but it was a little less mind-boggling than it sounds.
I come from a maternal line of very strong-willed women who did what they liked, Prof, so the generalities were not iron clad rules, however the pregnancy liklihood not only put a damper on sex but limited employment for many women.
I come from a maternal line of very strong-willed women who did what they liked, Prof, so the generalities were not iron clad rules, however the pregnancy liklihood not only put a damper on sex but limited employment for many women.
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