Reply #9: and this Uneducable male holds a place OF HIGH ESTEEM [View All]

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in the progressive community.

A man whose underlying personal reference point is:

"See, girls? YOU MEAN NOTHING. Your concerns are nothing. There are REAL PEOPLE out there who have REAL ISSUES, and none of them are women."

has a direct line to the ears (eyes) of dems/libs/progressives at this point.

This is something that needs to be addressed.

What prevents our voice from being heard? (Well, we generally don't punch out the people who dis us; so that attention getter is out.)

In the past, there have been very few women who had any social power, outside of sexual "power", which I don't consider actual power at all. I'm talking about the power of leadership, I guess. Or political power, or big money.

Now, however, there does seem to be a growing number of strong women who are taking a lead by demonstrating integrity and leadership. It seems to me that by and large, women of power have tended to avoid speaking specifically about the culture's trivialization of women.

I keep thinking that one of the possible angles on this problem would be to encourage women leaders to address the problem directly.

There are other angles too; another personal issue for me is the media. People get alot of their most unconscious formations from imagery/messages embedded in media. And that is where we see nothing but sexualized females, women who have very little personal story or dignity attached to them other than sex kitten, ultra-sexy professional (lawer, nuclear scientist, secret agent, whatever), or melodramatic victim. Or, domestic servant. Or attractive but dead body. REally, it seems like there are very few concepts about women in the public mind other than these shallow archetypes.

We need more women in media who will insist on introducing more varied views of women.