Sunday, April 20, 2014
Happiness:
Ideals
I went through and threw out some stuff today - found a bunch of old school papers I hadn't realized I still had. This is the closing from a paper entitled "The Renaissance Ideal" that I wrote in 1994 that made me laugh:
Accordingly, the ideal man was free to roam, and fight, and debate, and study arithmetic and geometry, and throw his whole heart and soul into whatever task he was engaged in; while the ideal woman, bounded by her training in religion and morality, and further restricted by the limits that she dare not cross, was confined to such humdrum duties as has always been the poor lot of women - taking care of the house, having and raising children, taking care of the men, and beautifying herself. The lines were very clearly drawn. Of the two goals in this new age, glory and morality, the men took the glory and the women took the morality. (Obviously, the men chose first.)
What amuses me so much about it is that my professor was quite the feminist, and she totally didn't catch the extreme amount of sarcasm that went into this paper. One of my highest grades ever.
Accordingly, the ideal man was free to roam, and fight, and debate, and study arithmetic and geometry, and throw his whole heart and soul into whatever task he was engaged in; while the ideal woman, bounded by her training in religion and morality, and further restricted by the limits that she dare not cross, was confined to such humdrum duties as has always been the poor lot of women - taking care of the house, having and raising children, taking care of the men, and beautifying herself. The lines were very clearly drawn. Of the two goals in this new age, glory and morality, the men took the glory and the women took the morality. (Obviously, the men chose first.)
What amuses me so much about it is that my professor was quite the feminist, and she totally didn't catch the extreme amount of sarcasm that went into this paper. One of my highest grades ever.
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