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SATORI
When we first read the post from a subscriber (excerpt below), we thought sure, we can do that -- right after we part the Red Sea, end all wars and feed the hungry!
"I enjoy your articles, but rather than reminding us of now much our culture stinks, it would be really helpful to hear some ways of improving it... things we can do to help future and present generations to make the leap from unfair to fair." [J]
However, as part of our answer to what women can do to improve our culture, we will comply with our subscriber's recommendation by boldly suggesting the impossible -- a rapid reversal of over 2000 years of gender conditioning -- a cultural satori. The fastest way to effect change is for women to act as a group, which they have never done. The slowest, but more believable, is what each of us can and many already do individually. We submit that GenderGappers has continually pointed ONE way for each of us individually to effect change by urging women to educate themselves politically and vote.
Beyond that, women need to join together and become a real cultural and political force. This they have never done. We have heard about things like the "battle of the sexes," but like most things, it does not exist. The battle we think is occurring is only between two factions of men -- those who are enlightened [or support women's liberation to get more nooky] and those who are still in the dark ages. Women just back the faction they most agree with.
Women's opinions just do not exist and never have existed. That is one of the smelliest cultural truths and nowhere is this most exemplified than in the trash spouted by John Gray. Opinion makers like Opra Winfrey have supported his women/venus//men/mars excrement, which only goes to prove our point. Whatever one may think of his writing, one must agree that he has concisely pointed out, and reinforced what many believe -- that women and men are not of the same specie.
Those women [or men] who "find themselves" in his descriptions are delighted and relieved because his descriptions confirm the indoctrination they received from parents, schools and friends. Gray tells them that they are NORMAL. He just reinforces their comfort in the status quo -- exactly what has kept women in her place over the eons.
Gray has done a great service to any person with an open mind. He has shown how fictitious and contrived our gender identification really is.
So if women ever are to act and influence policy as a cohesive force, the first step is to become a cohesive force. That would mean getting rid of the very things that have divided us from each other. Most of our divisive baggage has been projected and forced upon us by man's culture for that very purpose. "Divide and conquer" is not just a saying. It is true in the subtlest of domination techniques. It worked for Gray who separated the genders by billions of miles in outer space and got praised for it.
Men are a cohesive force readily identified around the whole world and each other by their common uniform: the suit and tie. Most accept themselves as they are, as human beings. Most are not given to artifice and cover up.
We do not suggest that women adopt men's uniform, but we do suggest that we have our own uniform. We must accept ourselves and our appearance and stop with the cover up of who and what we are. That is, that we all belong to the female gender and that we are all human beings. What we save in vanity purchases would fund innumerable projects and political campaigns.
Uniform clothing would aid our conformity and for that, we suggest the following for general, business and formal wear: A simple suit in any shade of gray. It can be a pant or skirt suit and each woman may add a small dash of color as an accessory -- but not anything constricting the throat and shutting off circulation to the brain. All shoes must be comfortable with heels no higher than one half an inch.
Sans frills, sans cosmetic cover up, sans competition with each other's appearance, sans all artifice, we, collectively the quintessential woman, can get down to the business of improving the culture for ourselves and future generations. So much for the fast track. Next article we'll write about what each individual can do right now.
2001-010
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2001 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished
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