Comments on: Indemnity Only and Deadlock http://klishis.com/reading/archives/94 Books Books Books Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Michelle http://klishis.com/reading/archives/94/comment-page-1#comment-21 Michelle Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:17:32 +0000 http://klishis.com/reading/?p=94#comment-21 It may also be because the history of that time is something I remember, and I don't remember things being as bad as she described. The first book was published in 1980, when I was 10, and when I was ten I knew without a doubt that I would go to college, and that I could do whatever I pleased when I grew up. Not that I had any better idea then, than I do now, what I wanted to do when I grew up. The sexism that I came across, in high school and in college, was always subtle. The blatant sexism she describes is something that I have rarely experienced, and certainly never in the public situations she describes. So I think it's the blatnatness of it that gets me--a blatantness that I've never seen despite the fact that I was alive at the time the books were set. For exactly the reasons you describe. It may also be because the history of that time is something I remember, and I don’t remember things being as bad as she described.

The first book was published in 1980, when I was 10, and when I was ten I knew without a doubt that I would go to college, and that I could do whatever I pleased when I grew up. Not that I had any better idea then, than I do now, what I wanted to do when I grew up.

The sexism that I came across, in high school and in college, was always subtle. The blatant sexism she describes is something that I have rarely experienced, and certainly never in the public situations she describes.

So I think it’s the blatnatness of it that gets me–a blatantness that I’ve never seen despite the fact that I was alive at the time the books were set.

For exactly the reasons you describe.

]]> By: pericat http://klishis.com/reading/archives/94/comment-page-1#comment-20 pericat Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:02:25 +0000 http://klishis.com/reading/?p=94#comment-20 Maybe we're still too close to those times. And that the issues have morphed, rather than been resolved, doesn't help. It's like listening to someone cry "Fire!" when the real problem is water damage. And you wish they'd just shut up and get a mop. Maybe we’re still too close to those times. And that the issues have morphed, rather than been resolved, doesn’t help. It’s like listening to someone cry “Fire!” when the real problem is water damage. And you wish they’d just shut up and get a mop.

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