Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale Spender... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Dale SpenderFor centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
Dale SpenderThe talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
Dale Spendermen have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.
Dale Spender