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http://www.livejournal.com/users/britgeekgrrl/933701.html

My answer? Because we must be everything and eternal. Hence these standards, this competition and the durability of plastic.

Yeah, sure I want to be able to do whatever I want if I want to. But the expectation that I use my sex as a weapon or be a blight.... oh tiring, tiring.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

Sadly true. I am curious if (in Britain at least, I have no figures for the US) the rising wealth of women in Britain will affect things any. Then again, the article says that women control 48% of wealth in Britain and while the overall situation (and legal protections) are far better than the 70s, the details of say-to-day sexism are only slightly changed. Social power correlates extremely closely to wealth in the first world and if women control most of the wealth in a nation, perhaps this will change things. Then again, I also thing that much of what is going on is that gender roles and expectations are changing, but that the process will likely at several generations and we are simply in the middle of the chaos (it having really only started in the 1960s and early 70s). I'm hopeful and eager to see the outcome, but sadly don't expect to see it for another 30-40 years. In the meantime, expectations about both men and women continue to suck, especially for those of us who do not wish to conform to standard gender norms.