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From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: feminine spirit
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Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 21:21:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 8 21:21:44 1985
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Reply-To: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eric McColm)
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Summary:
It occurred to me in reading the quote Moira took from a book, that dealt
with grade-school girls (?) trying to show their idea of the feminine
spirit, that children are pretty canny. Children have a funny way of seeing
through the facades that adults weave about themselves. It may be that the
girls in question did not see their mothers as good examples of feminine
spirit because they sensed that their mothers were not credible examples
of what the girls wanted to be in life (conflict between the then-incomplete
indoctrination to want to raise a family and the desire to "have an exciting
life"), or that they were picking their mothers' dissatisfactions (or
frustrations) with their,the mothers', lives. The existence of conflicts
discredits the legend of the "happily ever after" family life.
Note I said "it may be". I reserve the right to be wrong.
--fini--
Eric McColm
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