Comments on: somehow all roads lead to Barnard http://journeytothirty.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/somehow-all-roads-lead-to-barnard/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:01:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Zan http://journeytothirty.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/somehow-all-roads-lead-to-barnard/#comment-171 Zan Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:04:40 +0000 http://journeytothirty.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/somehow-all-roads-lead-to-barnard/#comment-171 P.S. This is unrelated, but I wrote back to you on my blog, and I'm not sure if that's how it works or if I should write back to you on your blog. Do you know the proper comment etiquette? P.S.

This is unrelated, but I wrote back to you on my blog, and I’m not sure if that’s how it works or if I should write back to you on your blog. Do you know the proper comment etiquette?

]]> By: Zan http://journeytothirty.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/somehow-all-roads-lead-to-barnard/#comment-170 Zan Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:03:39 +0000 http://journeytothirty.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/somehow-all-roads-lead-to-barnard/#comment-170 I love it when things come full circle. I think what what Ms. Martin said about turning the tide was a good point. I've never really studied up much on feminism myself, but my impression of it is that one if its goals is to liberate women and give them the opportunity to choose. But if they're forced into roles they don't want to be in (for example, a woman who would rather stay at home with her children but who feels a need to climb her way up the corporate ladder instead), that's defeating the purpose. I'm glad that women have the rights that they do, but it shouldn't be about fulfilling someone else's expectations. If women's rights only extend to "the right to be what other people think you should be," then it is time for a new movement: the right to be who you want to be, regardless of who other people, including women, want you to be. I love it when things come full circle. I think what what Ms. Martin said about turning the tide was a good point. I’ve never really studied up much on feminism myself, but my impression of it is that one if its goals is to liberate women and give them the opportunity to choose. But if they’re forced into roles they don’t want to be in (for example, a woman who would rather stay at home with her children but who feels a need to climb her way up the corporate ladder instead), that’s defeating the purpose. I’m glad that women have the rights that they do, but it shouldn’t be about fulfilling someone else’s expectations. If women’s rights only extend to “the right to be what other people think you should be,” then it is time for a new movement: the right to be who you want to be, regardless of who other people, including women, want you to be.

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