I don't understand why women are supposed to be enthralled in neatness or to be the peacemakers. They are the ones who menstruate for Christ's sake! A violent, violent process.
Not me any more. Not for 18 years. Don't miss the red flow. It is an awful shock for young girls. Anyway, I've been doing a lot of freewriting lately and have found myself at this point: Is freedom ever a possibility for women? I'm not free, and I don't know any women in my personal life who are free either. Do you know any free women?
Well I am a free woman, although I am sometimes treated as if I were not. I think the source of most women's unfreedom comes from their own superegos. There are, of course, financial constraints in many instances, too. It is hard life to live like Marechera without home. But superego is a significant reason why more women do not break free. Freud considered that women have very harsh superegos, but I think that the dynamic that creates such harsh superegos is intricately linked with the prohibition against women responding violently. Specifically: I must censure my own actions because there are those who can hit me really hard when I cannot hit back.
Hmm. Just an idea I'm throwing out. I'm thinking hard about freedom. I did think of one free woman: Marge Piercy. http://www.margepiercy.com/ She has worked, lived, and loved as she pleased all her life, made her own way in the world, always. She has not had children, which may be necessary for a woman to be free, but is not necessary for a man to be free. Germaine Greer strikes me as a free woman, as well.
yeah it is possible for all sorts of women to be free. Sometimes one is born into lucky circumstances that either facilitate or give a taste for freedom. (I happen to think that Modern Western education weakens the will in this regard -- it softens).
Most of the time, those born female will have to fight against the social grain to assert their freedom. Again and again.
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Not me any more. Not for 18 years. Don't miss the red flow. It is an awful shock for young girls.
Anyway, I've been doing a lot of freewriting lately and have found myself at this point: Is freedom ever a possibility for women? I'm not free, and I don't know any women in my personal life who are free either.
Do you know any free women?
Well I am a free woman, although I am sometimes treated as if I were not. I think the source of most women's unfreedom comes from their own superegos. There are, of course, financial constraints in many instances, too. It is hard life to live like Marechera without home. But superego is a significant reason why more women do not break free. Freud considered that women have very harsh superegos, but I think that the dynamic that creates such harsh superegos is intricately linked with the prohibition against women responding violently. Specifically: I must censure my own actions because there are those who can hit me really hard when I cannot hit back.
Hmm. Just an idea I'm throwing out. I'm thinking hard about freedom. I did think of one free woman: Marge Piercy.
http://www.margepiercy.com/
She has worked, lived, and loved as she pleased all her life, made her own way in the world, always. She has not had children, which may be necessary for a woman to be free, but is not necessary for a man to be free.
Germaine Greer strikes me as a free woman, as well.
yeah it is possible for all sorts of women to be free. Sometimes one is born into lucky circumstances that either facilitate or give a taste for freedom. (I happen to think that Modern Western education weakens the will in this regard -- it softens).
Most of the time, those born female will have to fight against the social grain to assert their freedom. Again and again.
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