Woman's History
Well...
1) You aren't a woman.
2) Apparently an accurate representation of women's history/ rights really doesn't matter to you.
My giddy aunt. I hope you're not seriously suggesting that a correct understanding of "woman's history" is somehow a function of what kind of plumbing your body contains. I put the phrase "woman's history" in quotes because I'm not even sure what that means. I assume you are striving to distinguish women's history from "men's history" just as some people distinguish black history from white history or Irish history from British history. How about this revolutionary idea-- there is just history, of course imperfectly understood and interpreted, but there is no sacred set of facts that belong to one gender or another or one people or another. Such a notion is more the province of a religion than it is scholarship.
1) You aren't a woman.
2) Apparently an accurate representation of women's history/ rights really doesn't matter to you.
My giddy aunt. I hope you're not seriously suggesting that a correct understanding of "woman's history" is somehow a function of what kind of plumbing your body contains. I put the phrase "woman's history" in quotes because I'm not even sure what that means. I assume you are striving to distinguish women's history from "men's history" just as some people distinguish black history from white history or Irish history from British history. How about this revolutionary idea-- there is just history, of course imperfectly understood and interpreted, but there is no sacred set of facts that belong to one gender or another or one people or another. Such a notion is more the province of a religion than it is scholarship.
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