It is the same in the case of girls. I am often solemnly asked what I think of the new ideas about female education. But there are no new ideas about female education. There is not, there never has been, even the vestige of a new idea. All the educational reformers did was to ask what was being done to boys and then go and do it to girls; just as they asked what was being taught to young squires and then taught it to young chimney sweeps. What they call new ideas are very old ideas in the wrong place. Boys play football, why shouldn’t girls play football; boys have school colors, why shouldn’t girls have school-colors; boys go in hundreds to day-schools, why shouldn’t girls go in hundreds to day-schools; boys go to Oxford, why shouldn’t girls go to Oxford—in short, boys grow mustaches, why shouldn’t girls grow mustaches—that is about their notion of a new idea. There is no brain-work in the thing at all; no root query of what sex is, of whether it alters this or that, and why, anymore than there is any imaginative grip of the humor and heart of the populace in the popular education. There is nothing but plodding, elaborate, elephantine imitation. And just as in the case of elementary teaching, the cases are of a cold and reckless inappropriateness. Even a savage could see that bodily things, at least, which are good for a man are very likely to be bad for a woman. Yet there is no boy’s game, however brutal, which these mild lunatics have not promoted among girls. To take a stronger case, they give girls very heavy home-work; never reflecting that all girls have home-work already in their homes. It is all a part of the same silly subjugation; there must be a hard stick-up collar round the neck of a woman, because it is already a nuisance round the neck of a man. Though a Saxon serf, if he wore that collar of cardboard, would ask for his collar of brass.
I capture it thusly: In today's society, to be a successful woman, you must be indistinguishable from a successful man.
Let's not pause and consider the absurdity of that statement and let's attack anyone who does as sexist. But it is absurd, and it is true. Modern society as abdicated the feminine and accepted that the masculine structures are where the value is.
We've deleted the feminine. Maybe it's time we go back and Rediscover the Goddess?
Jane Austen..(sighs)....your prose captured her essence so perfectly. What a gift she had. I love (almost) everything about being female. Even at 61, I find that young men appreciate the quality of pure femininity, not tawdry sex on display, even though they don't fully understand what it is or why they fall all over themselves when a woman who treasures it is in their midst. Knights all; waiting to be called upon. I pray young ladies rediscover their uniqueness and the sacred mystery of the beauty God bestowed only on them. Keep writing!! ❤️
I capture it thusly: In today's society, to be a successful woman, you must be indistinguishable from a successful man.
Let's not pause and consider the absurdity of that statement and let's attack anyone who does as sexist. But it is absurd, and it is true. Modern society as abdicated the feminine and accepted that the masculine structures are where the value is.
We've deleted the feminine. Maybe it's time we go back and Rediscover the Goddess?
https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/rediscovering-the-goddess
restacked and recommended your blog too. Pax
Jane Austen..(sighs)....your prose captured her essence so perfectly. What a gift she had. I love (almost) everything about being female. Even at 61, I find that young men appreciate the quality of pure femininity, not tawdry sex on display, even though they don't fully understand what it is or why they fall all over themselves when a woman who treasures it is in their midst. Knights all; waiting to be called upon. I pray young ladies rediscover their uniqueness and the sacred mystery of the beauty God bestowed only on them. Keep writing!! ❤️
The book that's from, What's Wrong With The World, is scintillating. GKC was a genius.