kcwellsch@watrose.UUCP (Kenneth C. Wellsch) (01/21/84)
I highly recommend that anyone, be you man or woman, who has not read the book, "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French should do so. It paints a very negative picture for women - too negative to consume all at once possibly, since it's a compendium of almost all that can go wrong for women. This book not only condemns men but also women. Women nowadays have a tremendous power but collectively at least are reluctant to use it. Maybe if enough women read books of this nature they will stand up for their rights as individuals and not let themselves be victimized so often. A friend suggested to me that this may take another two generations. A friend gave me some advice that had come from his five year old daughter, she said "What you do is what you are". If you treat women (and men) with the proper respect and preserve their dignity, others, certainly those that matter, will see this and your influence will not be lost. That advice came from someone much older than I and may sound noble, but why shouldn't people have noble aspirations? The book is copyright 1977 and should be available in the non-fiction section of most bookstores in hard-back as well as paperback. It is a depressing book, but well worth reading. Kenneth Wellsch