I recently reread some of these essays and while I hope there comes a day when the entire book is outdated, that day still seems far away. Her book, a collection of articles and essays, is entitled Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. It doesn’t matter whether the act is as small as saying, “Pick it up yourself” or as large as calling a strike.” Another of her examples, “How about sharing your salary and suggesting the whole office share their salaries so you can see who is getting discriminated against?”
“If each person in the room promises that the very next day she or he will do at least one outrageous thing in the cause of simple justice, then I promise I will, too. Steinem began to talk about what she called Outrageous Acts. Magazine – became nationally recognized as the leader of and spokeswoman for the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. In the 70s I was younger than most of you are now, so I came to know most of her work later in my life.Īt grass roots meetings and talks around the country Ms. Gloria Steinem – feminist, journalist, social and political activist, and founder of Ms. This thought brings to mind the words of Rebecca West – a British author who once said (in around 1947) “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” Sometimes I think to survive I became a feminist, or maybe because I learned to speak my mind and “Lean In” others saw me as a feminist before I defined myself as one. Then heading to Princeton University as a young adult when the ratio of men to women was 3.4 to1, and finally coming to Thacher 23 years ago as the only woman in the mathematics department, and a predominantly male administration. When my daughter once asked me why I became a feminist – I gave her a version of this explanation: I couldn’t help it, I had to be – growing up in a family with a patriarchal father and three brothers a religious family where my brothers could all be altar boys and I couldn’t having classical ballet be my first passion, a place full of girls and young women where the handful of boys always seemed to get more attention, and most of the directors and choreographers were men.
Vick, again”, or rolling your eyes? Just observe that reaction and I’ll leave you with it during this talk. Take a second and observe your reaction to those last four words, “I am a feminist.” Are you silently cheering, wanting to cheer out loud, sighing, immediately losing interest, thinking, “here goes Ms. Last Wednesday was Gloria Steinem’s 80 th birthday. Today is the last day of Women’s History Month. This week was my week, so I thought I’d also share my remarks here: Thacher faculty members take weeklong turns serving as the teacher on active duty (TOAD), a role that includes making some remarks at the Monday morning Assembly.
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