[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Videostar

My issue is that femininity is dying, there hardly no feminine women left anymore...or what would be naturally thought of as femininity, im saying women have been told by womens groups in recent years that the only way to be truly equal to men is to act just like them..thats not women changing naturally that's being bread into them.

But what you say about how children have been brought up to be like, I think that's dying out too, and that's also a tragic thing.

I would say it is the other way around. I would say that there has been enormous pressure on women to conform to a very narrow view of feminine behaviour and attitudes, for a very long time. It's shifted and changed in terms of the exact parameters of that femininity, but that pressure has been there throughout most of the modern era, and backed up by law for a good deal of that. In recent decades there has been a lessening of social control of women. And without that social control, it is becoming apparent that many of what we thought of as natural distinctions, were in fact artificial and required some women to silence or constrain part of who and what they were.

Women are not all the same. They do not all have the same proclivities and inclinations. Some women really do want to fight. And some women really do have a passion for taking apart engines.

And some women really do like gorgeous clothes and some really love being a good wife.

What you seem to want, is for 'women' as a whole to act in a particular way, or within a particular set of parameters.