Thursday, December 29, 2005

Who knows what women want? - Entertainment - Times Online

Who knows what women want? - Entertainment - Times Online by Joe Joseph

//start quote///IT IS sometimes perplexing for men to watch programmes such as Big Ideas That Changed the World (Five) and to hear Germaine Greer still talking about how women need to become not just equal to men (“a profoundly conservative aim,” Greer reckons), but to achieve liberation. It’s perplexing because although she quotes Aristotle (“the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior”) and assures us that “feminism has hardly begun ”, as far as many men can see women have pretty much had the upper hand throughout history. When someone told Churchill that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, he replied, “Still?”....

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