![]() ![]() Actually, it's more of a long article, packaged in a non-confrontational manner as a letter from one friend to another. All of this crossed my mind as I read this book. So, I was disappointed to be so quickly dismissed as a support. ![]() I have to admit that being one of only three boys living in a family with a mother working outside the home does not automatically provide a true sensitivity to female society's needs, but all that time we spent doing the dishes, vacuuming, dusting, the laundry, cleaning the toilet, cooking, should have put my brothers and I just a little ahead of our male comrades in appreciating the limited roles placed on women roles at that time. Being one of the few men in the assembly hall, I admit to flashing on the thought that I might be asked - maybe not so politely - to leave immediately, but that soon passed as I failed to get any antagonistic stares. The keynote speaker promptly pointed out that men couldn't help, implying strongly that they couldn't possibly know what to do to help and wouldn't be trusted to do so if they did. ![]() Of all the things I remember about that event, I recall best the question from the audience about the role of men in the feminist cause. Back in the days before the Equal Rights Amendment was reintroduced in Congress and before Ms Magazine started publication, I attended an assembly on my college campus regarding feminism, with local, regional, and nationally recognized women panelists on the subject. ![]()
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