(11-10-2018, 04:47 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(11-09-2018, 11:53 PM)gabrielle Wrote: It seems to me that from the victory of the 19th Amendment onward through the sexual revolution of the 1920s, the era of fast-talking, pants-wearing dames like Barbara Stanwyck to the Rosie the Riveter crisis era there was a steady advancement in the roles of women. Disdain for women in politics? Compared with today, certainly, but women were becoming more involved than ever before--women like Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins were Missionary, i.e. prophetic not civic.
pbrower2a Wrote:there has not been a Crisis that has yet empowered men while leaving women out of roles that rely upon brute-force construction or combat as did the Crisis Eras from the Armada Crisis on.
If the Crisis is dealing with a President trying to rule as a despot, then women are already the leaders of the resistance. Think of the Argentine response to the collapse of credibility of the military junta.
All civics love teamwork, but Millennial teamwork is nonviolent and revolves around social media, corporations and the activist community. It doesn't require men to be macho, or to exclude women.
Another Civic trait is standardizing everything. Just like previous Civics overlooked tribal differences, Millennials overlook gender differences. It'll be up to the iGeneration to recover "lost art" of masculinity (I mean being a gentleman, not a bully). Artists are always interested in differences.
The ideal for me is a culture which celebrates gender differences, but allow people to opt out of them and be "unisex" if someone wants it.
-- due to recent advances in modern medicene, we now have transppl, or trannies, the ultimate gender benders. As you say perhaps Millies just overlook gender differences.
Speaking of Presidents, Tulsi is gearing up 4 a Presidential run. I suspect this is just 2 get her name out there, the race she's really shooting 4 is 2028, maybe even 2024 if she gets her q-factor up high enough this time round. Millies are already the country's largest voting bloc, & will get even more influential thru the 2020s as us old farts die off. Will they ignore gender & elect a female prez? Otoh, they did send over 100 women 2 Congress last week, so maybe they aren't that concerned with gender roles
(& yes Eric, they do vote, @ least in my precinct they do, the place was swarming with Millies last week. They just dont vote 4 pos canddiates like the 2 running in 2016. They are picky that way & not just in politics, l have noticed they'll walk off jobs if they don't like them, even if they got mouths 2 feed. They don't slog away 4 the paycheck til they find something better, they just walk away period)
my 2 yr old Niece/yr old Nephew 2020