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Michelle
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posted 03 April 2008 10:26 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A friend just sent this to me by e-mail. Good lord. I couldn't decide whether it would be better in the feminism forum or here, but I decided on here, simply because with some of the tips, it would be well to follow them with women OR men.

Others, not so much.


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Polly Brandybuck
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posted 03 April 2008 10:45 AM      Profile for Polly Brandybuck     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ha! Beautiful.
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jrose
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posted 03 April 2008 10:52 AM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That's so strange ... I just received the same thing from a friend about an hour or two ago.

I love the part about women feeling better about themselves when they're wearing lipstick, and not cussing in their presence, even though their daddies and hubbies might do it at home. But "husky" girls?


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Polly Brandybuck
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posted 03 April 2008 10:57 AM      Profile for Polly Brandybuck     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And making sure we have definite duties to fill the day - being as how all women lack initiative.

I read this stuff and I think...my poor mom.


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RosaL
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posted 03 April 2008 10:58 AM      Profile for RosaL     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:
And making sure we have definite duties to fill the day - being as how all women lack initiative.

I read this stuff and I think...my poor mom.


Yeah, it actually makes me think the world might have improved slightly, in certain respects!


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farnival
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posted 03 April 2008 11:16 AM      Profile for farnival     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:

...I read this stuff and I think...my poor mom.


and i just think of my very patriarchal grandpa, whom we all loved very much, spent his days running the show, and seeing my mum, aunt, and grandma humour him on the fiction.

[ 03 April 2008: Message edited by: farnival ]


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remind
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posted 03 April 2008 11:23 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:
And making sure we have definite duties to fill the day - being as how all women lack initiative.

I read this stuff and I think...my poor mom.


I know that lacking initiative paragraph made me go, "yuck".

I did not think of my mom, or even my maternal grandmother when I read it though. My mom was a feminist long before the word was coined, and my (step) grandmother, whom I was very close to, was a teacher, who married kmy grandfather later in life, well, for that time anyway, and she did not even know how to curl her own hair, as a professional woman, with her own income, she had always had it styled.

Nor even in respect to my paternal grandmother, who worked way too hard feeding a family of 9, and then in later years feeding 35, or so, granchildren, but she lived well into her 80's anyway. She was the backbone of my Dad's family, though the only thing I ever remember her saying was; "go get the leaves in the basement for the table".

She had 3 gardens ranging from about 1300-1500 square feet, and she processed everything from them that needed to be. The basement was like walking into a grocery store, with several rows and 2 sided shelves from floor to ceiling and with shelves lining all the walls too. And then there was a separate room, that had no heating, for cold storage of fruits and vegatables.


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ElizaQ
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posted 03 April 2008 11:28 AM      Profile for ElizaQ     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
#4 Retain a physician to give each woman a special physical examination - one covering female conditions. This step not only protects the property against the possibility of a lawsuit but reveals whether the employee to be has any female weaknesses that would make here mentally and physically unfit for the job.

Beyond it making me laugh out loud this one has me a bit stumped. What 'female conditions' would they think would lead to a lawsuit and for that matter what the heck would they have meant by 'female conditions' in the first place. Especially that can be discovered by a 'medical?'


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Michelle
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posted 03 April 2008 11:28 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by jrose:
That's so strange ... I just received the same thing from a friend about an hour or two ago.

We probably received it from the same person, jrose!


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Michelle
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posted 03 April 2008 11:29 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
ElizaQ - pregnancy, if she miscarried due to the rigours of her job during her "delicate state"?
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ElizaQ
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posted 03 April 2008 11:41 AM      Profile for ElizaQ     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
ElizaQ - pregnancy, if she miscarried due to the rigours of her job during her "delicate state"?

Ah...yes of course. THAT 'female condition'.


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Polly Brandybuck
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posted 03 April 2008 12:15 PM      Profile for Polly Brandybuck     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Endemetriosis, menstrual cramps, premenstrual syndrome....apparently these were all considered female (curses) weaknesses, and were used as an excuse not to hire women. (Well they all wind up missing work five days a month you know).

PMS = mentally unfit for a job? Some days that applies to me.


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