Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be,. . . not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.
They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.