Reply #67: Oh posh and piddle.

[truedelphi]

I watched women fall all over themselves in the 1980's and try to one up the guys in terms of being oppressive and chauvinistic. They were doing this in order to make it big.

I have also known women who made it big and did so without adopting the behavior of "the Man"

It is a discussion that I feel is very relevant. As a woman, I am SICK And I am TIRED of being told whether what I am and what I do and think and feel and say is the proper thing for me to be doing and thinking and feeling and saying. I'm a woman. If I am thinking somethhing maybe it is not possible for it to be sexist or gender hating.

But those who would usurp my power by telling me that this or that discussion can not be held only make me more determined to discuss the skeletons in the closet.

Would a black who lived under slavery not be able to complain about a fellow black becoming a foreman on the plantation?

Chauvinistic behavior is a form of tyranny and it matters not at all whether it is a man or a woman using this form of behavior to enhance their need for power


In the 1970's, I was ousted from a very left wing clique of women writers for my crime against womananity - being pregnant with a child who grew up to be many things you could want a person to be.

Meanwhile I was not hired to do one of the things I was loving and good at -carpentry -because I was a woman.

I have a right - and every woman out there has the right - to complain if the same tyranny perpetuated by men is now perpetuated by women because they feel that that Tyranny is the only way to get ahead.

And complaining about this Tyranny is speaking out against the whips and chains being used on others. Those wielding the weapons of control are trying to empower themselves by stepping on the dignity of others.


Again so that I can demonstrate that I am not anti woman - For years now, I have supported and watched Barbara Lee, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey and others do some very courageous things. Things Hill might have thought about doing - but opted not to do, because it would not serve her political interests.