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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Janice Shell who wrote (6700)	4/25/1997 7:45:00 AM
From: Rambi	of 108807

Alexa and I touched on this idea in an e-mail. My husband's great Aunt Helen, who died at 90+ a few years ago, was a writer. She published her most well-known novel in her 80s-it was on the NYT bestseller list for quite a while (And LAdies of the Club...Helen Hooven Santmyer)She was extremely bright-a 1918 Wellesley graduate, never married, studied at Oxford, had a female companion. A publisher wrote after meeting her that he expected a lady and instead in walked Aunt Helen smoking a cigar and asking for whiskey, outspoken and very assertive. I wondered if perhaps that type of extreme behavior was necessary to break through the roles women were expected to play in the 20s and 30s. Sending the message that I'm not like other women, I can play on your field, demanding attention and respect for their thoughts and ideas and work by first destroying the stereotypes. So maybe Ayn's masculine approach grew from her seeing the woman's role as inferior and submissive, and she denied that part of herself. Or maybe she really never had it! Thus her characters seemed rather interchangably genderless to me.

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