She Never Had a Chance, And Her Thousand Yard Stare Tells Us She Knows She Didn't.
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I sure hope the homeschool network gets stronger. It's obvious even to the casual observer that the public system is detrimental.
There are plenty of studies showing women as being less happy than they were in previous decades. Sad that they get brainwashed into wanting the "traditional" male role. Yes we have always been providers, but doing 40+ hours at an office or factory is unnatural. It's bad for everybody.
I'm sure it was hard for women back then, especially those that really wanted a career but I wouldn't say it's great for them today either. Substituting family for pets until they get too old and live a lonely life. Very unfulfilled.
Someone once said to me that anyone raised in the fifties was raised by a woman who was insane. You have no idea how bad it was, women had no access to income other than what the husband provided, many were abused and had nowhere to turn, many had so many children that it destroyed them physically. I was there, I saw this.
Remember mother's little helper? In the late fifties and early sixties they started handing out pills to women by the car load all for depression. So then you had unhappy addicts.
The women liberation movement allowed women to work outside the home, gave access to birth control and legal abortion, access to legal aid. Those changes were needed, as with anything much has been subverted but the needs were there.
For example; I had a friend who died from a back ally abortion, another who gave up the child and never recovered from it. Today a woman can make decisions about her life, about a career, about how many children to have that were not possible for a woman in the fifties.
Would you say that women in the fifties had it better or worse than women in the thousands of years of human history that preceded it?
Women pre-Christianity in northern Europe and the Scandinavian counties were relatively equal to men in most areas, in work, in land ownership, in elected roles. Women in most parts of the world pre-Christianity had some level of autonomy but not much.
Once Christianity came in with its story line that Eve, a woman caused all of the world's problems, things for women went to hell in a hand basket and stayed there until some rights such as property ownership began to be gained for western white women in the mid to late 19'th century.
Now women in the US got the right to vote in what, 1914; yet my mother needed my father's signature to open a bank account. By the 50's there were improvements; the invention of the washing machine, electricity, etc., so the work level was less than prior ages, noticeably so even from my grandmother's time.
But I think the improvements only made the limitations more evident. Repression is not about what you have, it is about what you don't have:)