"The people I'm getting furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting on their soapboxes proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."
- Anita Loos
"One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either."
- Charlotte Rampling.
2007-10-30 00:09:02 · 6 answers · asked by Rio Madeira 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I think the second comment is largely true. Women do have every opportunity that men have today, and more. The trouble is we have a cottage industry of professional victims who try to convince young women they are oppressed by the male, and the male's society, and they are convincing some young women that they really are second class citizens when the evidence simply does not support that.
2007-10-30 01:28:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The queen's quote was very foresighted. But it's actually worse than that. Feminism forces women to abandon their intrinsic, beautifully powerful nature as life-giver and nurturer in order to adopt the extrinsic and inorganic nature as provider and protector. What arises is confusion and entropy; for both sexes. Confusion and entropy are contraindicated for a progressive society. And this is what I think the queen means about "perish without male protection." Males will be confused about protecting; females will be confused about being victimized. The world will become so relativist that, on an extreme level, we might transgress from simple "political correctness'' to out-and-out gender intolerance.
2016-05-26 02:00:15 · answer #2 · answered by lorretta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one's pretty funny, although I don't think women are brighter than men. I think we're all as stupid as each other.
I'd want some more information about the second one: why does Rampling say that women have it all on a plate? Although I don't spend my life feeling oppressed, I don't think I have everything on a plate. I live in a pretty violent country, and as a woman, I'm never safe. Of course men get robbed too, but they don't have to be afraid of being raped every time they walk down the street. Maybe Rampling is right with regard to the first world, but in a third-world country, you CAN'T just pick an identity and run with it.
Why do you thumbs-down me? It's true: a woman is raped every 40 seconds in my country. How is that not opression?
2007-10-30 00:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by Marie Antoinette 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The first comment, I suspect, is tongue in cheek, so the men getting their knickers in a twist should chill out. Aren't they the ones always accusing feminists of "not having a sense of humor"?
I disavow the second comment completely. Charlotte Rampling is a British actress who was (and still is) absolutely gorgeously beautiful, so it's hard to take an opinion like that seriously from a wealthy, beautiful, gifted by nature person. Perhaps she had it on a plate because she could afford to buy it. The rest of us have had to achieve what we've achieved professionally through sheer will and harder work than men in comparable positions.
2007-10-30 02:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I agree with both of them. The first one is admitting the power women have with regards to certain types of emotional intelligence, and the second one is actually quite an anti-feminist statement.....probably by a woman over 50!!!
2007-10-30 00:17:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The first one is nothing more than shallow female supremacy & the second is true except for the last line.
In our society, women kind of are expected to be pretty.
2007-10-30 00:26:15 · answer #6 · answered by hopscotch 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋