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Originally Posted by Pete
I'm trying to link your two thoughts from posts 11 and 13. I'm sorry but they just don't go together.
You say anyone should be allowed to wear anything they want with no direct or overt psychological oppression but you seem to agree that females in our society are under psychological oppression to dress the way they do and the solution would be to put them under the burka.
Hmmmmm.
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Not saying that at all. My point is that our house is not clean and it is presumptious for us to define what feminism is. To understand others we must understand how others view ourselves. The solution is niether. Betty Friedan in the frist wave of feminism wrote a book called, "The Feminine Mystique." The basis of the book was that white women were relegated to stay at home, raise the kids, cook, clean, etc. She proposed that women need to break these barriers and get into the workplace, force men to share in parenting, break social norms. The only problem with her premise was that it was not inclusive. Her she was defining feminism; but, whole groups of women could not relate. I do not remember the author; but, it was titled "Ask a Black Women." In it, they interviewed black women and asked them what they thought about Friedan's book. They all said I wish I could stay at home. I wish their father was here to pay the bills and not cook. Simply, they believed that this was not THEIR feminism. Back to the bikini......who are we to define what is feminism?