ONE SIZE FITS ALL: ERROR IN THINKING

Not a lot in life makes me choleric but the 'one-size-fits-all' approach to anything, especially to women, really does. It can be seen in marketing, "What appeals to women?"; "What do women seek in a man?"; "What entertainment appeals to women?" Does it occur to people who do polls that there is no way to get all women to agree to ANYTHING!? If there were, there would have been no Phyllis Schlafly


Phyllis Schlafly single-handedly did more to hold back the feminist movement than many men did. She supported women who wanted to hold onto the traditional role of women being inferior, protected by and submissive to their husbands, those women who had no clue that marriage and adoption are not one and the same. As the feminist movement started, a few abandoned their children in their search to find themselves, while others decried that violation of motherhood. However, the feminist movement continues today, despite Schlafly's misreading of many bright women who could not tolerate being stifled by a world three feet tall for long and a husband who had no idea what it was that upset his wife nor a willingness to hear the explanation. These woman have brought up sons who did listen to them and to the women they later met in school and on dates. Life has changed to the point that men go through the birth of their children with their wives; couples now say "We're pregnant". Most men have modified the chauvinism of the previous generation and marriage has become a partnership, further proving that not all men think the same.

Just as, in Washington, not all Republicans of today, or Democrats, vote the same as the rest of their party. Only the impotent legislature of the GW Bush era went in lock step with a one-size-fits-all vote. Hopefully many of those have now been voted out of office.

While 'what is good for the goose is good for the gander' may work with geese because they can't complain to us, we do know that it cannot be true for humans and those writers who try to make it seem so have just not done their homework properly.