I agree with you on much of this, and yet I do think the conversation on gender essentialism and egalitarianism has changed. Partly I think it's because of the substantive differences in employment and participation; there is I think a reaction dating back from the Reagan era that seeks to push women back culturally. If the idea of legal and workplace inequality is now seen to be unjust, the restrictions can be held instead by culture and custom.
I wouldn't want to go back to the '70s in so many ways, but there are aspects of the culture of that time I miss.
I wouldn't want to go back to the '70s in so many ways, but there are aspects of the culture of that time I miss.
Oh, me too! I'm just wary of that emotional impulse, because I know I was in a position to appreciate so much of the egalitarianism of 1972, and sheltered from so many effects of sexism. Four-year-olds don't have to worry about equal pay or career opportunities or any of that.
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Date: 2014-11-24 09:25 pm (UTC)I wouldn't want to go back to the '70s in so many ways, but there are aspects of the culture of that time I miss.
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Date: 2014-11-24 10:36 pm (UTC)Oh, me too! I'm just wary of that emotional impulse, because I know I was in a position to appreciate so much of the egalitarianism of 1972, and sheltered from so many effects of sexism. Four-year-olds don't have to worry about equal pay or career opportunities or any of that.