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Here we go again - Women just aren't "allowed" to be stand up for themselves.
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 435533" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>This issue raises the question for me of what we mean by feminism... Used to be, in the "standard" definition of feminism, that the model for women was men - ie if they wanted to get something, achieve things, "go places", they should compete with men on men's terms. By being aggressive, forthright, ruthlessly competitive, ball-breaking (I caricature a little) and so on. Now there is a more subtle approach to feminism. What if we don't have to do things the typically male way? What if there can be a whole new way of relating and working that is NOT based on dog eat dog competitiveness but on the traditionally female qualities of empathy, compassion, tolerance and fluidity? Male values have ruled and shaped human history. Now women have the confidence and relative liberation not to have to ape those values but to strike out into their own territory, hopefully taking men along with them...</p><p>So in other words... being blunt, forthright, aggressive, etc, is fine as far as it goes but it is not the only way of being clear and assertive in communication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 435533, member: 11227"] This issue raises the question for me of what we mean by feminism... Used to be, in the "standard" definition of feminism, that the model for women was men - ie if they wanted to get something, achieve things, "go places", they should compete with men on men's terms. By being aggressive, forthright, ruthlessly competitive, ball-breaking (I caricature a little) and so on. Now there is a more subtle approach to feminism. What if we don't have to do things the typically male way? What if there can be a whole new way of relating and working that is NOT based on dog eat dog competitiveness but on the traditionally female qualities of empathy, compassion, tolerance and fluidity? Male values have ruled and shaped human history. Now women have the confidence and relative liberation not to have to ape those values but to strike out into their own territory, hopefully taking men along with them... So in other words... being blunt, forthright, aggressive, etc, is fine as far as it goes but it is not the only way of being clear and assertive in communication. [/QUOTE]
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