Women's Rights & Issues
Related: About this forumOn this date, 1928, Mary Daly was born. Lesbian feminist thealogian, author,
activist.
One cherished item in my library is a copy of "Wickedary, Webster's Third Intergalactic Dictionary of the English Language".
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)It was a broadening experience.
niyad
(119,637 posts)The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)But there's a lot there it's hard to argue with if you've paid any attention at all to this world.
One thing it communicated I do not know if it was the author's intent to get across. The book is so thoroughly centered on womyn that by the end I got some sense of how a girl might feel getting through ostensibly 'neutral' works that were actually thoroughly centered on men, whether this was intended or not, merely by the conventions of language employed.
niyad
(119,637 posts)"Wickedary".
Did you notice your use of "girl" and "men"?
The effect referenced I expect is deeper and less resistible for the young, hence the one usage, and in context 'male' runs a bit flat, somehow....
janterry
(4,429 posts)She taught at my alma mater for most of her career. Loved listening to her talk.
A shero and true feminist!
niyad
(119,637 posts)musette_sf
(10,314 posts)Beyond God The Father
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-God-Father-Philosophy-Liberation/dp/0807015032