According to Stepman I wasn’t entitled to my decent paying job even though I was really good at it? And raising two children on my own? I invite Stepman to kindly fuck off.
Sadly, all of this is a Big Picture Problem. As my favorite history professor in college once said* about the age when patriarchy was born, "Something happened so profound that we might as well have had a species change 6,000 years ago".
*I attended his lectures in the late 70s/early 80s...that quote comes from a 2003 lecture that was played on the web/radio show UnwelcomeGuests...but he said things much like that in the time when I got to attend classes over 40 years ago. Prof. Marvin Bram, still alive, wrote a wonderful textbook history of our species "A History of Humanity" (2018), who I should note was responsible for turning many of us onto the suffragette heroine the history books erased for her audacity to have an opinion on the institutions that were founded by the great and glorious ManGod who invented us all, Matilda Joslyn Gage, whose book "Woman, Church and State" was pub'd in 1893, this book would make the Comstock list of banned texts, and too by authoring it the popular media of the day over the next few decades went to work erasing Gage's position as one of the "triumvirate" of 19th century women's rights along with Stanton and Anthony.
Anyhoo...how the heck we as a species go about navigating the rest of this decade and the next, will determine whether violent anarchic chaos and cruelty reins ~ or ~ composed, kind and care driven chaos is suffered together, w/ as many smiles as we can muster, to the tune of as many songs as we can still tap our feet to. And that is our metaphorical binary choice ~ do we continue to engage the world through the lens of patriarchal psychopathy OR can we take on the challenges we face as a species by embracing matrilineal affection and comity. Well, here again, we come back to finding as many cures as we can for that dreaded social disease: manospherrhea.
According to Stepman I wasn’t entitled to my decent paying job even though I was really good at it? And raising two children on my own? I invite Stepman to kindly fuck off.
"... like Ms. Stepman, they don’t live by their own stated principles .... the system Stepman wants to impose on everyone but herself...."
Oh yeah, the ol' Phyllis Schafly bit. I want to scream "Shut up and go home!" to all these hypocritical yammerers.
I have been trying to make #SitDownShutUp happen to such women.
Sadly, all of this is a Big Picture Problem. As my favorite history professor in college once said* about the age when patriarchy was born, "Something happened so profound that we might as well have had a species change 6,000 years ago".
*I attended his lectures in the late 70s/early 80s...that quote comes from a 2003 lecture that was played on the web/radio show UnwelcomeGuests...but he said things much like that in the time when I got to attend classes over 40 years ago. Prof. Marvin Bram, still alive, wrote a wonderful textbook history of our species "A History of Humanity" (2018), who I should note was responsible for turning many of us onto the suffragette heroine the history books erased for her audacity to have an opinion on the institutions that were founded by the great and glorious ManGod who invented us all, Matilda Joslyn Gage, whose book "Woman, Church and State" was pub'd in 1893, this book would make the Comstock list of banned texts, and too by authoring it the popular media of the day over the next few decades went to work erasing Gage's position as one of the "triumvirate" of 19th century women's rights along with Stanton and Anthony.
Anyhoo...how the heck we as a species go about navigating the rest of this decade and the next, will determine whether violent anarchic chaos and cruelty reins ~ or ~ composed, kind and care driven chaos is suffered together, w/ as many smiles as we can muster, to the tune of as many songs as we can still tap our feet to. And that is our metaphorical binary choice ~ do we continue to engage the world through the lens of patriarchal psychopathy OR can we take on the challenges we face as a species by embracing matrilineal affection and comity. Well, here again, we come back to finding as many cures as we can for that dreaded social disease: manospherrhea.
Gage’s daughter married L Frank Baum of “Wizard of Oz” fame.
(I mean Stepman, just to be clear…)
I suggest “no wasting good print space on knuckleheads like this.”