The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166368 Message #3999793
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
08-Jul-19 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: Peter Yarrow me-too'ed out of concert?
Subject: RE: Peter Yarrow me-too'ed out of concert?
Jim - my nan thought it hilarious when she was flashed...
That was nothing compared to being bombed by the Luftwaffe and evacuated to the wild west of England...
Your polemical history lesson is a good read,
but you are tending to over generalise in order to support your own argument...
I suspect you were never in a rock band back in the 60s and 70s...
Young women we knew were far stronger and independent than you give them credit..
Even if you suggest they were on the pill and being promiscuous
as a result of being manipulated by the dominant patriarchal hegemony..
They seemed to be having a damn good time enjoying it on their own terms...
BUT we do agree about the forgotten women, like my mum - working class, under educated,
and stuck in lousy long hours badly payed jobs;
cleaning, washing, and wiping arses in old folks retirement death camps...
They were the mass underclass who the middle class aspirational professional feminists academics and journalists
didn't seem to give give a toss about.
They were more concerned with the glamorous lifestyle
of women aping successful tory men in industry and the media, and academia..
In the late 70s and early 80s,
most of the younger feminists I knew,
who were students, musicians, artists and actresses,
they were cool and inspirational.
They shaped my personality and beliefs as I developed into manhood.
But the older middle aged feminists most prominent in the media
tended to be mostly obsessed with their own career self advancement..
Sod my mum, as far as their selfish priorities seemed to be...