Reply #43: msmcghee said... [View All]

"It was always this way - for men as well as women. We just didn't give women much of a chance to do anything about."

Each woman in her own mind could make a cognitive choice on wether she felt kept down or wether she would look at the positives, prior to the 60s. She had chance and choice. Just not the chances and choices that we seem to place so much value on today. The chance to work a 70 hour work week and be independant from a man but dependant upon a system that makes her windex the glass ceiling when she hits it is just one example. The chance to be free with her sexuality and then dealing with the fact that on the reverse, alot of us arent currently taught what an important thing our love, our sex, our bodies are.. what a precious thing they are to give... what mental repercussions can come from giving too freely.

Some would argue that the chances that women had then were greater in moral/ spiritual value, and required far less compromise then the challenges of today.

I do agree that we are truly our own makers and masters, it does reside in our hands and yes, we have to deal with the baggage handed down just like every generation before us did. Im just trying to show you our baggage.

This is my perspective and Im not asking you to agree with it.. only to see that it isnt all flowers and butterflies, that it created a whole new set of problems and challenges that those who had overcome different ones werent prepared to handle. Im not blaming them, they werent omnipotent. I'm just trying to bring a voice of youth to these boards that I feel is severely lacking. Im just sharing my experience.