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Elizabeth Williams's Notes of a Feminist Therapist is largely a complication of the case histories of her psychoanalytic patients--cases-in-point in which women had to grapple with such things as competing professionally with a spouse, having children out of wedlock, adopting children into a lesbian household, or relying on masochistic fantasies for sexual arousal. Each example provides a pivot for her own condemnation of the tyranny of stereotypical yet pervasive forms of morality and feminine role-playing...
...Wedlock replies that such comparisons are unfair, arguing that there are vast differences in culture and attitudes toward crime and punishment between the United States and other countries. The U.S. leads the rest of the world in all crime, not just murder. and always had because of these attitudes. One of the major differences, he says, is that prison terms in other countries have always been more certain and lengthy than in the United States...
...Professor Bruce Wedlock of GOAL argues that most gun accidents occur because of a lack of training or proper precaution. Guns, when used properly, do not present any unusual accidental risks or extraordinary danger, he says, and certainly no more than many other commodities that are dangerous when misused...
...will cause a signifcant reduction in suicides. A person who really wants to die will find a way of doing so." In countries which have much fewer guns in the population, Crout says, "such as France, Sweden, and Japan, the suicide rate is much higher than in the U.S." Wedlock adds, "Don't come to me and take my gun because somebody else wants to shoot himself with...
Sleeping with one's husband is, presumably, one of the accepted joys of wedlock. The way you tsked-tsked, one would think her admission was endangering national security. Only last year TIME did a cover story that in part took political wives to task for their dreary role playing. Now that we have a First Lady who speaks her mind, she is branded as tasteless. No wonder so many political wives hide behind frozen smiles and innocuous comments...