However, we need to be respected as well and I don't think third wavers have yet to see that respect from our foremothers. We have more priveledges than you did at our age, we are moving forward. To our generation the right to say no is a given because of you. Having been a member of several consensus based grass roots organizations and looked on at the political careenings of national organizations, I suspect that it is fair to say that it is impossible to get a group of women together who agree on anything. By the by, while I haven't read Manifesta, I have heard excerpts read by the authors and have chatted with them briefly.
Many men have a very warped view about women, love, sex, and romance.
First of all, women don't enjoy being objectified, and most men objectify women. A male acquaitance of mine once told me that I should be careful, because I am attractive. What scares me about that is that I've got to be on the defensive with men, because they're not liking me for who I am, only for this skin, the outside framework, the bone structure, the lips, the eyes. God, it's really awful to have to live everyday of my life, depressed and heartbroken, as it is for other women, especially those who aren't in their 20's and 30's, because a man only sees with his penis, not his heart or his soul. And it's not that I can get any guy I want either.