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The Begining of How I Feel About Women's Rights

I had a thesis written on this at one time, back in the day, basically why I believe women's rights were gift that destroyed society. I do not have time to write all of it this morning because I have to go to the dentist but this excerpt from Stephen King's book The Stand was used in it.

My thinking is not as cut and dried as it once was but I still believe basically the same thing but am a bit more....um...liberal in my thoughts in spite of them being basically the same.

Have a read, Share your thoughts and perhaps I can write more about it later!

Vlad....bet you never thought i was so "misogynistic".

Any way off to get tortured like s good girl:


What about you, Frannie? What do you want?

If she had to exist in a world like this, she thought, with a biological clock inside of her set to go off in six months, she wanted someone like Stu Redman to be her man-no, not someone like. She wanted him: There it was, stated with complete baldness.


With civilization gone, all the chrome and geegaws had been – stripped from the engine of human society. Glen Bateman held forth on this theme often, and it always seemed to please Harold inordinately.


“Women’s lib, frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn’t get with child, but a woman could, every four year old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath. Liberation-that one word said it all. Before civilization, with it’s careful and merciful system of protections, women had been slaves. Let us not guild the lily; slaves was what we were, Fran thought. Then the evil days ended. And the woman’s credo, which should have been hung in the offices of Ms. Magazine, preferably in needlepoint: Thank you, men, for the railroads. Thank you , men, for inventing the automobile and killing the red Indians who thought it might be nice to hold on to America a little bit longer, because they were here first. Thank you, Men, for the hospitals, the police, the schools. Now I would like to vote, please and the right to set my own course and make my own destiny, once I was chattel, but now that is obsolete. My days of slavery must be over; I need to be a slave no more than I need to cross the Atlantic Ocean in tiny boats with sails. Jet planes are safer and quicker than little boats with sails and freedom makes more sense than slavery. I am not afraid of flying, Thank you men.

And what was there to say? Nothing. The red necks could grunt and burn bras, the reactionaries could play intellectual games, but the truth only smiles. Now all that had changed, in a matter of weeks it had changed-how much only time would tell. But lying here in the night, she knew that she needed a man. Oh God, she badly needed a man.


posted on Feb 26, 2008 5:08 AM ()

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Reliable anthropological studies of hunter gatherer societies.... which is how humans lived for the first 200,000 years or so, indicate that women were the political equals of men, treated well, and although each sex has a different role to play in survival, these roles were considered equally valuable. It wasn't really until between 5 and3 thousand years ago with the rise of middle eastern monotheism that women began to be treated as inferior. And today, it is mainly the monotheistic religions spawned by Judaism that continue to treat women badly.
comment by clovis on Mar 4, 2008 11:57 PM ()
Fascinating read. Thanks for posting this.
comment by teacherwoman on Mar 1, 2008 1:33 PM ()
You just quoted my favorite book in the whole world. I"ve read "The Stand" at least twice a year since it has come out.
comment by elfie33 on Feb 29, 2008 11:57 AM ()
Yes, for the most part, women are weaker and, at times, more vulnerable than men. Men, as a rule, are generally less agile than women.
When it comes right down to it, don't we both need each other? So why draw battle lines? Men and women should treat each other as equals. Simple as that. Only when that does not really happen should one side pick up armaments against the other.
The Women's Movement of today, in my humble opinion, has been reduced to bickering over slight and non-consequential things,(like breast feeding on airplanes.) When trivial matters like that are addressed as major issues, they tend to undermine the fight for more substantial issues like equal pay.
(Time for me to get off this soapbox now!)
comment by hayduke on Feb 28, 2008 9:45 AM ()
comment by strider333 on Feb 26, 2008 8:22 PM ()
I agreed with Will Rogers when he said, "Why a woman would want to be my equal and lose her superiority is beyond me,"
comment by thepirateinthecity on Feb 26, 2008 7:42 PM ()
I'm glad I was born a man--don't think I could stand up to what women have been through the last 72 years--not to mention going through childbirth, PMS, menopause, etc. that's why I have always respected women.
comment by greatmartin on Feb 26, 2008 4:50 PM ()
I don't get it either. I would have prolly been burned at the stake back in the day because I would have been like F@CK @FF to society and any man trying to limit my options and control me and my actions... Bleck... no thanks!
comment by kristilyn3 on Feb 26, 2008 7:23 AM ()
I personally, don't get it. Women are taxed liked men, they are subjected to the same laws as men, they sometimes have to raise kids alone. Why wouldn't you want them to be treated economically, and socially as equals. "Weaker"...So what, "more vulnerable" maybe, but shown to have greater pain tolerances than men, and less "black/white" thinking patterns. So, in a technologically advanced society where strength is not essential to survival, and they have to do or be subjected to the same environmental/social conditions as men, why is equality for women bad?
comment by ekyprogressive on Feb 26, 2008 6:16 AM ()

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