Oy. 🤦🏼♀️ By this chick‘s logic, I can‘t study or write about my specialty in the history field because it‘s mostly about men, and I‘m not a man. THANKS FOR BEING A GOOD FEMINIST SWEETHEART!!! 🤬🤬🤬 Real feminists don‘t make 🤬 comments like this, because they see how the flip side actually hurts women. 🤬 FFS, I know a brilliant historian that studies women in the military through history. It‘s fascinating. HIS papers are always eye opening.
GingerAntics If a man is interested in the female perspective and he wants to spend all his time reading about it and he decides to share what he‘s discovered with the world, MORE 👏🏻 POWER 👏🏻 TO 👏🏻 HIM!!! 👏🏻 FFS #rant #rantover #feminismshouldnthurtwomen #pleasestopattackingfemalehistorians #womenhistorians #womeninhistory 5y
Chrissyreadit It may also be a reflection of when this was written and how women in academia were treated. When I was little girls were not considered good at math or science, should be nurses not drs, etc. I really remember the difference of how some teachers were with boys compared to girls. 5y
TheBookHippie People are fun. 🙄🤬 5y
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TheBookHippie My favourite “but you‘re a feminist and you‘re always cooking so how can that be ?!......” oye 5y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit 🤦🏼♀️ I don‘t get people who can‘t figure out the very simple concept that feminism just means believing (sometimes militantly when necessary) that men and women are both capable of the same things. Women cook, but men are chefs. WTF?! Ugh. (edited) 5y
GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie the book was written in a period when that was the case. Hell, I had teachers in the 90s that acted that way. Still, this review was written in 2013...and sadly this is an argument I hear all the time. By making some things just for females, you‘re keeping us separate, and separate is never equal. Sadly, I see this mentality A LOT with feminists my age. “We want x for ourselves.” (edited) 5y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit they just don‘t see how that‘s the exact thing feminism is against! Drives me nuts! 5y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics SAME. It makes me crazy. 5y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie though, from what I heard and read, almost as soon as feminism started, women who were happy as home makers and wanted to be home makers were excluded because the early feminists thought they were brain washed or supporting the patriarchy. Wasn‘t the whole point that women should be free to be and be whatever they want? I don‘t get why anyone thinks restricting males is the answer, ie any better. 🤷🏼♀️ 5y
Birdsong28 🤯😵🤬📚📖 5y
Chrissyreadit I think part of this is that so many women experienced patriarchy in different ways, and it can have an effect. I think if we follow the anger we will find trauma. The bad side is people who demonize the term feminist. I love when people understand it means equality in general but even that term is taken out of context often. BTW- it was used against women in many ways- I would have loved to be home with my children instead of working full time. 5y
Chrissyreadit Reagonomics used women in the work force to create an economic system that further disenfranchised single mothers and glorified two working parents as a gift instead of decimating a healthy middle class. In terms of matriarchy I love that we had Native American societies that were matrilineal. 5y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Yup. It blows your mind. Equal people it means equal! 5y
TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit gahhhhh Reganomics 🤢🤬 5y
GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit matriarchal and matrilineal are two different things. Many cultures around the world, before and since the rise of Rome, have been matrilineal (mostly in places the Romans didn‘t go). Matriarchy is just the patriarchy in reverse and that is a actually quite rare and always has been. Many cultures determine lineage through the mother or allow children to inherit from the mother (matrilineal). 5y
GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit Anderson Cooper actually rejected his matrilineal inheritance when his mother died (mostly because he never thought he was getting it because she‘d told him that, and he basically held her to her word I guess). America is matrilineal now and was when this book was written. 5y
GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie Reagan certainly demonised single mothers, along with some other folks. I‘m sorry, I don‘t trust a “Republican turned Democrat.” 5y
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