Women & Men's Roles, How you see them and where this view comes from...

Angel_Jenny

Person_one wrote: »

Ugh, I think I feel a little nauseous.

Funnily enough, I prefer to be respected than 'treasured' and like nearly every woman I know my 'gifts' extend beyond husband pleasing and housework!

Also, since when are women there to be 'utilized'? Are we thinking, feeling autonomous beings with functioning brains or are we just another item to make use of like a hoover or a plot of land?

What does your friend think of the book?

We only send each other books that we have enjoyed reading. Her father is a preacher of some description so I should have expected something along these lines!

Flicking through the book - it is very anti-feminist -

"Why must feminists substitute for the glorious hierarchical vision of blessedness a ramshackle and incoherent ideal that flattens all human beings to a single level - a faceless, colourless, sexless wasteland where rule and submission are regarded as a curse, where the roles of men and women are treated like machine parts that are interchangeable, replaceable, and adjustable, and where fulfilment is a matter of pure politics, things like equality and rights?"

I think it will be an interesting read.

I sent her a Wanda Brunstetter Amish fiction book!

Person_one

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

We only send each other books that we have enjoyed reading. Her father is a preacher of some description so I should have expected something along these lines!

Flicking through the book - it is very anti-feminist -

"Why must feminists substitute for the glorious hierarchical vision of blessedness a ramshackle and incoherent ideal that flattens all human beings to a single level - a faceless, colourless, sexless wasteland where rule and submission are regarded as a curse, where the roles of men and women are treated like machine parts that are interchangeable, replaceable, and adjustable, and where fulfilment is a matter of pure politics, things like equality and rights?"

I think it will be an interesting read.

I sent her a Wanda Brunstetter Amish fiction book!

I think we may have different interpretations of the word interesting

Angel_Jenny

Person_one wrote: »

I think we may have different interpretations of the word interesting

I'll read pretty much anything! Plus we agreed that we would read what the other sent.

I have never read a book like it - I think everything is a little more extreme in America.