Am I the only one who sees a connection between the so-called feminist movement and increasince violence among women? The feminist movement isn't really about femininity, it's about making women into men (and vice versa). It shouldn't be a surprise that the old dynamic of primarily social fighting among girls is becoming more masculine and physical.
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I'm not sure which is the cart & which the horse, but the de-feminizing of women has also led to (or caused?) the de-masculinization of men. When the women become men, men are no longer required to take up that role: protective, chivalrous, polite, hard-working. Witness how teen boys take no care with what they talk about when they are around girls - since the girls are no longer feminine, they don't have to be masculine.
A REALLY good article on this can be found here:
http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/winter2003/moore.html
Read it. You'll love it.
At the primary and secondary schools that I attended, a girl had to know how to knock a few heads together. Different culture. On occasion, I took an "equalizer" of the non-ballistic type to school with me (1960s and 70s). Have you ever seen two black girls or women fight? It's violence of the first order. ;-)
a: I've seen that article before but had forgotten about it. Thanks.
J: I went to a predominantly black high school, so yes. That was eight years ago though, and I don't remember the girls getting into nearly as many fights as the boys. But then I wasn't one of the people crowding around to watch, either.
Maybe I'm way off put I always thought the feminist movement was more about equality than about becoming masculine.