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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12618)	4/29/2001 7:37:44 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

what is the point of any course of study? To explore an area of special interest, to train for an occupation, to train to pursue a life centered on working for social change, to explore areas completely different from the ones that were infused in you in your early years, to find out about yourself, to find out about others... Why study the ancient Greeks? Why study the Romans? Why study Ancient Egypt? Why study "Classics"? Why group anything the way it is grouped? To study what you want to study and to focus study in ways that people wish to focus. No one asked for hundreds of years, why study only the men of Greece and Rome- for there was an obvious answer, the women weren't really allowed to pursue writing. The body of the Greek state was the adult Greek male. All other people in the Greek state were adjuncts to the Greek adult male. And in Western European classics such a general overbearing attitude has persisted. In Jane Austen's Persuasion Captain Harvel tells Anne that she is wrong when she says women are more faithful- he says all histories and literature, prose and verse, are against her, as he has never read anything that did not have something to say on the inconstancy of women. And Annes says, "Yes, but they were all written by men." Mr. Harvel does not disagree, for he cannot, because they were. If women and a few men want to study women, and find in the dusty corners of the library of human history the small places where the unique marks of women were recorded for and by themselves, then I say it's ABOUT FRIGGING TIME. But of course, that's JMO. And it has nothing to do with what is PC. It has everything to do with my own concept of fairness which, of course, is completely subjective.