tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post7142915125697866623..comments2023-04-11T11:17:47.627-07:00Comments on Ladybrain Feminist Reviews: Because Messages Matter: The Equality MythSmallshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643467616474916048noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-62256684727842179922010-03-29T15:45:32.487-07:002010-03-29T15:45:32.487-07:00Wow. I just got entrenched in this article, and th...Wow. I just got entrenched in this article, and the lawsuit, and all the surrounding articles and blogs. It's great that this article is in Newsweek. The modern woman's feminist struggle is really difficult to define sometimes, and I applaud these women for addressing it in this very public publication.KBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16999317354951667303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-55126574888506861892010-03-25T09:11:55.879-07:002010-03-25T09:11:55.879-07:00After reading Jesse Ellison's "My Parents...After reading Jesse Ellison's "My Parents' Failed Experiment in Gender Neutrality," I feel the need to comment that, although her parents tried their damndest to encourage neutrality, Ellison wasn't raised in a total vaccum. Even in rural Maine, surely she had friends, books, television or some other influences that told her what society expected of her.<br /><br />I agree that women and men can have fundamental differences in communication and thinking, but I also believe that the vast majority of those differences are socially constructed. How else would you account for tomboys, and to some extent, people who identify as trans-gender? Clearly, people find themselves in situations where fitting into just one of two categories is not only stiffling, but unnatural.<br /><br />Of the differences that are biological, anything associated with maleness is valued and those associated with femaleness vilified. If we valued womanhood as much as manhood, the differences between the sexes wouldn't matter nearly as much.Smallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16643467616474916048noreply@blogger.com