ext_34293 ([identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] velvetpage 2006-07-01 02:45 pm (UTC)

The only thing I disagree with, in what you've said, is that there are implicit limitations on men as well. There's one point where the manifesto says that the women will not get after their husbands for things that are just "boys will be boys" items. Well, what behaviours exactly are allowed under that clause? If it's watching sports while drinking a beer or two, or leaving dirty socks in the living room, so be it. But it's wide open to interpretation. What if one of the women who claims PM status is using that clause to justify why she hasn't left her abusive husband? Boys will be boys, after all, and boys are sometimes aggressive with women.

That would be my biggest worry with this - that, and the social exclusion that would come about if a woman who had adhered to this creed decided to leave her husband, even for reasons that made that the healthiest thing to do.

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