No bloody way. I'm not going back to the days where I wouldn't have been able to vote, be considered someone's property, and be forced to stay in an abusive marriage because there was no alternative because I had not a penny to call my own. Totally not in charge of my own life.
No thanks. Suck it up, guys.
LOL- I call myself a post-feminist neo-romantic for various reasons. One problem I have with swallowing the theories of classical feminism whole is that there is a bit of mythology about the "bad old days" of oppression. Force of individual personality is a reality that has always trumped the ignorance of any -ism. I wouldn't want to live in Ibsen's doll house but Moll Flanders wasn't exactly a weak bunny and I think most of Jane Austen's women could step into modern life quite easily with a simple change of wardrobe. When I was dating GP, he said that black men and white women are drawn to each other because they've both been oppressed by white men. I think I allowed myself to be oppressed by one white man but that doesn't mean that white men are naturally oppressive.
On a practical note, having done about every possible variation myself, I have advised my daughter that if she wants to have children the best possible combo would be to have them when she returns to Grad School.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
