michael yates
Katha Pollitt wrote:
>
> T -- I don't know how old you are -- you present yourself as quite a
> youngun, but this is the Internet, you could be 90 -- but I'm prepared
> to believe that times have changed, that 25 year old men are settling
> down with 35 and 40 year old women all the time. Do you have any stats
> to support your contention?
> As for feminism preaching itself out of a job -- in a couple of
> hundred years maybe. What makes older women so peeved at young women who
> are "anti-feminist" is not that those young women are refusing to pay
> homage, but that the young women are wrong about what the condition of
> women in this country really is. They think they get equal pay, but they
> don't. They think they can "do anything" -- but they can't. they think
> there's no going back, and in some ways they're right -- women are never
> going to drop out of college in great numbers to marry at 19 again. but
> in other ways they're wrong -- welfare reform, for example, is a
> tremendous "going back" to the beginning of the century, when poor women
> were expected to support their kids by whatever means they could find or
> give them up to foster care or orphanages. I don't think abortion will
> be made formally illegal as it was pre Roe v Wade. But can abortion be
> subjected to so many restrictions and hurdles that lots and lots of
> women end up unable to get to a clinic in time? Sure -- that's already
> happened in much of the country.
> the "anti-feminist" young women don't care about that, though, any
> more than they care about welfare reform. It won't affect them -- so it
> doesn't matter.
> Will feminism be irrelevant someday? Oh, maybe in 500 years. 600
> years, if todays posts on age and gender represent general masculine
> views!
>
> Katha