Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simone: No, we do need certain things the same. Humanity has thus far defined itself as male and given all its highest treasures to the male world. It is self-evident that women must first have the same basic social, political, economic rights. Without them women cannot come into even minimal existence as human beings. Women in traditional societies, for instance, are practically animals. You must not rationalize all those horrible taboos, restrictions, even maltreatment. There are women who have never been allowed to step out of doors...
Simone: Okay! But men don't shape their whole lives to fulfill their idea of "masculinity," do they? They are human first. In being male they in no way interfere with their being human: the two go along in the same direction: forward. But as soon as a woman starts trying to live up to her femininity first and foremost, it directly conflicts with her humanity. It pulls her down into sex, torpor, uncreativeness, dependency, subordination. All of these can have a part in her life, but not the basic part...
Norman Vincent Peale: But you are taking all the beauty out of the relations between the sexes. Without the male warrior and the female captive princess, what joy will there...
...Bunting pointed out that while 57 percent of the male employees in the AEC have college degrees, only seven percent of the females do. "It's not easy for the Commission to promote women to high positions, no matter how eager it may be to do so," she said...
...first Wu Emperor. To everyone's amazement, she proved in most respects a model monarch. She demolished the apparatus of terror and installed a Cabinet of honest civil servants who ruled the country well. At 80, feeble but still formidable, she was persuaded to relinquish her male harem and was maneuvered into luxurious retirement. Less than a year later she died-without a care in the world, without a spot on her conscience. In her last will and testa ment, she declared that she "pardoned" all the people who had forced her to kill them...