Women as Lego, “built of parts that can be reassembled at will”

7 Responses to Women as Lego, “built of parts that can be reassembled at will”

1. NFA says:

   14 May, 2023 at 3:02 am

   Thank you for pointing to the review C.L.
2. NFA says:

   14 May, 2023 at 3:12 am

   Also at the CWR is,
   Leaving Mother’s Day alone

   If celebration of the mere concept of motherhood is “triggering” for you, your problems are bigger than Mother’s Day.
3. Christine says:

   14 May, 2023 at 7:53 am

   Motherhood is “in the way”
4. Cassie of Sydney says:

   14 May, 2023 at 9:39 am

   I’m a big admirer of Mary Harrington, Louise Perry and Julie Burchill.
5. cuckoo says:

   14 May, 2023 at 10:20 am

   I was recently reading Dickens’ The mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Modern Classics, 2002 edition). In one chapter, the Dickensian authorial voice discourses on the way women form judgements, particularly about character, and how no amount of contrary fact or reason will sway them from these judgements. I found myself automatically nodding in agreement as I read this. The passage was footnoted at the end, so out of curiosity I turned to the note. It began (mild paraphrase): “In Dickens’ day, some people used to believe that there were actual differences between the psychological and emotional make-up of men and women…” Groan.
6. C.L. says:

   14 May, 2023 at 10:44 am

   The passage will be re-asterisked in the 2123 edition…

   “In the 2020s, some people believed there were no differences of psychological and emotional make-up in men and women…”
7. Cassie of Sydney says:

   14 May, 2023 at 10:50 am

   “In one chapter, the Dickensian authorial voice discourses on the way women form judgements, particularly about character, and how no amount of contrary fact or reason will sway them from these judgements.”

   The Torah prohibits women judging civil disputes and capital cases, and for very good reasons.