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Other men like Professor Harvey "keep 'embarefoot and pregnant" Mansfield, seem to have trouble adjusting to the new state of affairs. In an observation which strains credulity, Mansfield recently declared in The Harvard Review of Philosophy that "Women like to have babies That's why they do. "Is it possible that Professor Mansfield still doesn...
Increasingly, Mansfield's public comments are beginning to sound like the death Rattle of a man whose species is facing extinction. And Mansfield is not alone. In the face of tectonic cultural shifts, some men are beginning to feel beside, puzzled and dispirited. They perceive their domain as shrinking the direct result of the evil machinations of a coven of feminists. I can think of nothing more terrifying than dealing with such men, whose expectations mirror those of their unenlightened forbears, men with truncated visions...
Professor Mansfield was right about one thing, a liberated woman liberates a man. The one thing that all men want is to be free...
...these statements any less offensive to women than Mansfield's grade-inflation argument is to Black students have we decided that public sexism doesn't require a public response--or, worse, that Mansfield is right. The atmosphere of complacency and inertia surrounding this issue scares me it simply isn't safe to assume that everyone at Harvard is a feminist and will see Mansfield's comments as the predictable, tired, sexist statements they are. I am grateful to Mansfield, at any rate, for reminding me of the acute and persistent need for public and loud defense of women's rights...
Rape is far more violent and personally devastating than being told by Professor Mansfield that women belong in the home and not in the workplace; I certainly do not mean to draw a moral equation between the two. But both acts are oppressive and hostile to women, and both have been shrouded in silence for too long. We, both women and men, owe it to ourselves and to each other to denounce such oppression boldly and firmly. Laura M. Horton...