Here's another ether glitch! Stefanie
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In response to (I think) Katherine English's question about how young
women on campuses perceive gender equity:
I'm 35; not "young."
What I see is women (young) believing the world is fair and they have
no different obsatcles than men. I perceive that they do not anticipate
sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, spousal/date rape, etc. will
happen to them.
Let us hope they are correct. I doubt it. I think maybe they don't know
what it looks like. I find many young women to be woefully ignorant
about the care they recieve from medical professionals and the responses
they receive from professors. Often they (ah yes, the old we/they
dichotomy) so surely expect fair treatment blantant sexism (e.g.,
"special" requirements from a male prof, for a female student) that
sexism does not enter their minds. Faith in the establishment pervades,
even among some of my more "progressive" young friends.
I hope we continue to give names to those experiences they have yet to
distinguish as unacceptable and help young women see the continuity from
what is with what was and has been for too long.
Barbara Bliss
