Word: sisterhoods
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...implausibles." Both Single White Female and Raising Cain too often beg the question "Why would such a smart person do such a stupid thing?" Single White Female gets its best thrills early on, when Hedy is falling in love with Allie -- and filling the void inside both of them. Sisterhood never looked so vulnerable. "You haven't been yourself," Allie says to Hedy. "I know," her would-be twin replies. "I've been...
What do women want? To get away from men. To escape into a community of sisterhood. And then, nourished by that sorority, to find better men -- even if they are the ones left behind, but now with hearts refreshed and reformed...
...master's favors. His strategy, supported by millenniums of male domination, is divide and conquer. So the caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals as opponents and their servants as pawns. Subtly, sullenly, the women flaunt their femininity -- and in doing so destroy any chance for their sisterhood to flower. Songlian, the youngest, is the first to rebel against this system. A tragic comeuppance awaits...
...issues should not be women's issues. They should be human issues. The idea that women exist only when they're attached to children is the notion that feminism can somehow be repackaged as "family rights." In the past few weeks, there have been stories about the "myth of sisterhood," which attacked feminists for not focusing enough on the family. One writer said to succeed, feminists need to look at women's issues from a "children's perspective." Why should we? We're adults. What bothers me is the implication that women have to prove they are good mothers before...
...slavery, which was in keeping with his times, so, we believe, the very few observations in the Old and New Testaments that appear to condemn that what would now be called homosexual acts can be seen as reflecting prejudices inconsistent with the central Christians Message of compassionate brotherhood and sisterhood...