According to Jamie Jeffers of the British History Podcast, Norman feudalism slammed the door on the vestigial rights enjoyed by Anglo Saxon women, which were in turn fewer than those enjoyed by the comparatively liberated Ancient Britons.
Everything subsequently had to be fought for. Married women's property rights, the right to enter universities and the professions, the vote, access to contraception, the right to take out loans without a male counter signature, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centres, pregnancy rights. Everything this generation takes for granted had to be fought for and in some cases clawed back from feudalism. It was women who did that -- and not all of them would have described themselves as feminists.
I took a spare-time course in women's studies at Ruskin College, Oxford in the early 1980s when I was reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University. This was just a decade after radical feminism landed on British shores in that very institution. (Ruskin was, and is, a left-leaning trade union college.)
Even at that young age I felt radical feminism didn't quite answer. I'm actually quite grateful to the trans rights movement for bringing me back into the fray with the knowledge of just how much feminist rhetoric assumes men and women are the same -- when, actually, physically speaking, we're on separate and distinct bell curves for just about every attribute.
It's important we get our heads together to construct a woman's rights movement which takes account of the mounting discoveries of evolutionary biology otherwise we'll be left high and dry as humanity moves on into the digital era.
There's a real and present danger that Silicon Valley and the tech bros will do to us what the invention of the horse stirrup (really) and the rise of the horse bros (knights in armour) did to us in the 10th century.
According to Jamie Jeffers of the British History Podcast, Norman feudalism slammed the door on the vestigial rights enjoyed by Anglo Saxon women, which were in turn fewer than those enjoyed by the comparatively liberated Ancient Britons.
Everything subsequently had to be fought for. Married women's property rights, the right to enter universities and the professions, the vote, access to contraception, the right to take out loans without a male counter signature, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centres, pregnancy rights. Everything this generation takes for granted had to be fought for and in some cases clawed back from feudalism. It was women who did that -- and not all of them would have described themselves as feminists.
I took a spare-time course in women's studies at Ruskin College, Oxford in the early 1980s when I was reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University. This was just a decade after radical feminism landed on British shores in that very institution. (Ruskin was, and is, a left-leaning trade union college.)
Even at that young age I felt radical feminism didn't quite answer. I'm actually quite grateful to the trans rights movement for bringing me back into the fray with the knowledge of just how much feminist rhetoric assumes men and women are the same -- when, actually, physically speaking, we're on separate and distinct bell curves for just about every attribute.
It's important we get our heads together to construct a woman's rights movement which takes account of the mounting discoveries of evolutionary biology otherwise we'll be left high and dry as humanity moves on into the digital era.
There's a real and present danger that Silicon Valley and the tech bros will do to us what the invention of the horse stirrup (really) and the rise of the horse bros (knights in armour) did to us in the 10th century.
James, you are 100% on Gnosticism. It is the fundamental heresy.
Plus, yoga is also Gnostic. The problem is always ignorance, not the will.