On 5/23/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Still, it was the women of our generation who began to struggle in the late
sixties and early seventies, in the reborn women's movement. We attended
consciousness raising groups. We had to re-evaluate what it was that we were
supposed to be doing in our lives and who we were. Back in social work
school in 1959, an unmarried female professor had told me that I had to
choose between my profession and being a wife and mother.
Miriam
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Boy Abby, you scratched some long buried attitudes in the dark cellar of my
mind.
The world today may be a mess, but at least it seems to be in a state of
flux...and could go in the direction of becoming a better place in which to
live.
But back when my life standards were being formed, what a black and white
world it was. Not only Racially, but attitudinal. And it seemed to me,
looking back, that so much of what I believed was simply absorbed without my
being aware of it. Taboo subjects like Sex, formed volumes of information
and misinformation without my knowing where it came from. My feelings
about "Queer"
people came from Outer Space, because no one ever discussed the subject.
And of course, what I thought I knew about blindness was absorbed by
osmosis, and was mostly a jumble of misinformation and misconceptions and
old wives tales...maybe a few old husbands stories, too.
Of course I grew up during WW II, and our American Propaganda machine ground
out very negative images of "Japs" and "Krouts". Still, it was only a few
years until I realized that I was still reacting to make believe images.
And of course, this was still the age of a man being, "Master of his
domain". Fortunately I was raised in an "equal opportunity" family.
My parents proclaimed that there were no such things as boy's jobs and
girl's jobs. There was, however, children's work. My two sisters and I did
lots of the support jobs, like setting the table, clearing and washing the
dishes, putting them away and sweeping the floor and taking out the trash.
My parents took the job of supervising. Dad was responsible for having the
kindling and coal laid out for the morning fire, while mother prepared the
meals, rose up early to build the cook stove fire, and along with our help,
to do the never ending laundry. Mother also did the shopping and did the
"deep" cleaning.
She also went to business college and then on to a job. While a great
amount of the day to day work fell on mother, dad also took classes in order
to move up the economic ladder.
As a visually impaired boy, I was cut no slack. In fact, I never thought of
myself as having a disability...just heavy bifocals.
Anyway, it was the age of the Macho Male, and I bought into the whole
mystique. Young men "took" a wife unto himself. Women were still seen.
without actually saying it, to be the property of their husbands.
A great deal has changed, but we can't afford to lose hard gained ground.
Women are being pushed down by the White Male Masters, and unless women
fight back, it means hard times ahead once again.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/23/19, abby <aevincent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I hope this isn't true for young women. I was raised to accept that
my destiny depends on attachment to men. I needed to find a man to marry
and
support me if I'd be a good wife. My job I get to "fall back on"
depends
on being submissive to a male boss. Even Oberlin, the first college
to admit women, didn't totally disabuse me of this idea. I got my
first job before I got a husband. When I had a miscarriage, my now ex
was angry that I didn't "give him a son ". That did it! .
Abby
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Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 9:04 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] repost
I responded to Roger's post, but was informed that my message was not
delivered. Sorry if this is a repeat, but I really have strong
feelings over the whole anti abortion attack on women's rights.
Carl Jarvis
*******
Not since the Pilgrims set up shop on the Shores of the "New World",
has there been such an all white male takeover. What I can't get my
head around is how many women either support, or allow, this total
control over their lives by their self-appointed White Masters.
The power to confuse and misdirect by our All White Male Oligarchy is
evident in its ability to herd the American People away from the life
threatening issues of today, and set up phony Straw Men.
Where is the passion condemning the ruthless murder of hundreds of
thousands of people around the world, supported by our drones, bombs,
and financial support? If the life of a fetus is so important, why
isn't the life of a young soldier who is gunned down fighting a
senseless war? Are we really going to mill about mindlessly while
children...entire families...starve to death because of our uncaring
disdain?
This morning I heard a woman weeping over the death of her young son,
following a bombing, because she could not move to try and help him.
She lay, unable to move, while he cried and begged her to help him.
He died during the night.
And people can ignore that, and fight for the life of an unborn fetus?
If it were my body, I'd know which one I would protect.
Carl Jarvis
