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Real gender equality?
At the current rate of social change, women won't achieve full equality to men until the year 2270. But woemn won't be that patient.
- Nancy Ramsey, president, Morning Star Imports, Fast Company, September 1999
For women, equal penalties and prison time, duties and obligations, blame and shame, equally feared and shunned, killed and controlled? For men, equal health care and lifespan, concern and support, protection and love? We should hasten the coming of that day.
Welcome to paradise
These days, women are feeling so dispirited about the work world that they're actually leaving their jobs. The so-called glass ceiling isn't the problem. The problem has to do with what women see when they look up at the glass ceiling. They see what they are expected to sacrifice, and they opt out of even trying to smash the glass. ... They are expected to sacrifice who they are as human beings.
- Helayne Spivak, Founder, president and creative director HRS Consulting, Fast Company, September 1999
In the name of women's liberation pop feminists portrayed the male-dominated workplace as a paradise of glamor and options. But for that damned glass ceiling, women could have it all. But the glass ceiling is almost as thin as the myth of male power. It's a Fast Company world out there. Welcome to paradise.
No victimization in death
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.
- Hillary Clinton, First Ladies' Conference on Domestic Violence in San Salvador, El Salvador on Nov. 17, 1998
Yea, just like guys to go and victimize the women by getting themselves killed.
Stiffed strikes out again
The other attention-grabber obviously available to men in an ornamental culture was sexuality - an aggressive, ever-ready, action-packed display of it. Sexual performance was the quintessential response to commercial scrutiny, to the leer of the camera lens.
- Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, p 532, 1999
Stiffed strikes out again. George Gilder explains with greater clarity and insight in Men and Marriage:
A man who cannot attain his manhood through an affirmative role resorts to the lowest terms of masculinity. What can he do that is exclusively male? He consults his body. He has a cock.
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