The Real Joke That History Played On

I Won A Really Big Fellowship To Go Straight On To Get My Ph.d. And I Went Through Agonies Of Indecision, And Then I Decided Not To Accept It. I Just Decided I Didn't Want To Be An Academic.

I'm Against Suppression Of Pornography. If You Suppress Guns - Yes; If You Want To Suppress Poverty - Yes. These Are The Obscenities, The Real Brutalization Of People. I Am Almost More Outraged By Ads For Blue Jeans Or Cars That Sort Of Blatantly Depict Women Not Only As Sex Objects, But Women That Look Younger Than The Age Of Consent, Looking Like They've Just Been Raped Or Asking To Be Raped-utterly Passive Sex Objects.

In Almost Every Professional Field, In Business And In The Arts And Sciences, Women Are Still Treated As Second-class Citizens. It Would Be A Great Service To Tell Girls Who Plan To Work In Society To Expect This Subtle, Uncomfortable Discrimination-tell Them Not To Be Quiet, And Hope It Will Go Away, But Fight It. A Girl Should Not Expect Special Privileges Because Of Her Sex, But Neither Should She "adjust" To Prejudice And Discrimination.

Strange New Problems Are Being Reported In The Growing Generations Of Children Whose Mothers Were Always There, Driving Them Around, Helping Them With Their Homework --an Inability To Endure Pain Or Discipline Or Pursue Any Self-sustained Goal Of Any Sort, A Devastating Boredom With Life.

When One Begins To Think About It, America Depends Rather Heavily On Women's Passive Dependence, Their Femininity. Femininity, If One Still Wants To Call It That, Makes American Women A Target And A Victim Of The Sexual Sell.