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Susan Corso's avatar

Amen to that. Just love them. Isn't it shocking when we realize how deeply patriarchal attitudes, ideas, and behaviors are woven into our world as "natural" and "normal." It's one of those things, at least for me, that having seen unmistakable evidence of it, I cannot unsee it, and now, I see it in everything. At 66, my own long-standing feminism is undergoing renaissance, and stories like this one, Maya, help it keep going. Thank you.

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Maya Rodale's avatar

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. So true!

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illustr8d's avatar

this also happened in the 1970s, nearly 100 years later.

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Maya Rodale's avatar

Ugh, and all the frontal lobotomies! It's really bad. Our freedoms are so new and feel so fragile.

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illustr8d's avatar

they also did electroshock therapy on people that would literally take part of the brain's functionality away.

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