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...stereotyping that goes on in baseball is again a reflection of the underbelly of the American dream, and Bouton understands that, and writes about his own submission to his managers and owners with wry understanding. Bouton kept his intelligence under wraps for a year, trying so hard to conform to standard opinions and life styles among players and managers that he even tried to like Fred Talbot, another cast-off pitcher of less than liberal opinion, who constantly sounded off about "sending the ???ers and the Commies and the Jews back to Africa." In the end, Bouton lost the battle...
Most people I know are fighting these fights so frantically because, unhappy in their roles, they are sure that they have failed. But it is the roles, not they, who have failed. It is sexist society which has failed to conform to us as human beings...
...then used this to put pressure on individuals and groups of individuals and institutions-the scapegoats he had identified for society-to make their practices conform to his followers' view of how they should behave. The successes he achieved in this way would in turn serve to maintain and strengthen his political ascendancy. It was not a particularly attractive period in our history...
...family, Millett says, is patriarchy's chief institution and cell for sexist brainwashing. It not only "encourages its own members to adjust and conform, but acts as a unit [in the] patriarchal state which rules its citizens through its family heads." Male power is enforced by the man's position as head of the household: other members of the family must rely upon his economic and social status. Within the family, gender roles are ideologically reinforced. Girls, for instance, are taught to cook and sew passively, in imitation of their mothers; boys are encouraged to be aggressive in imitation...
Most people I know are fighting these fights so frantically because, unhappy in their roles, they are sure that they have failed. But it is the roles, not they, who have failed. It is sexist society which has failed to conform to us as human beings...