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...very ordinary American liberal when I met her," Yoshimura says. But in the winter of 1964-65, Kate Millett attended a lecture series that was to make an extraordinary difference in her life. The lectures were titled "Are Women Emancipated?" Kate thought, "this is going to be one of those put-down sort of things, but maybe they'll take my point of view. All my life, guys said I was neurotic. I didn't accept my femininity, they said...
...Women's Liberation publications for his theories on the reasons for male political domination. The author of Men in Groups, a professor at Rutgers and married, with one child, Tiger last week discussed Sexual Politics with TIME Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin. Among his observations on Author Kate Millett and her theses...
...start, virtually all the goals that women have are perfectly justified, legitimate and desirable. One can only support them in every way. The problem, as I see it, is the analysis that they make of why things go wrong, of why there are these disadvantages. Millett tries to say that the males dominate females because they dominate females. This is her evidence of patriarchy and it therefore should be removed. It is a very peculiar way of reasoning, if all societies, everywhere, exhibit the same characteristics of male dominance...
...Millett has raised, more directly than anyone else, some of the critical problems of biological reality that we're going to be facing. Questions are being asked about what kind of animals we are. The hunting history, for example, is now fairly clear: we evolved as a hunter. We spent 99% of our time as hunters; we've been hunters until very, very recently. It's not just a question of changing a few employment practices and a few attitudes of males and females toward each other. It's far deeper than that...
...argument ultimately turns on whether one thinks that there are any differences between males and females that can be inherited. Clearly Millett thinks that there aren't. I think there are, and if we want to deal with this basic problem, we have to deal with it in terms of what it is, not in terms of our abuse of the system. We get some kind of genetic inheritance, we get all these chromosomes, we get a lifecycle. Those biological givens influence and shape a deep structure of behavior. Millett is talking about the very deepest structure...