“‘I’m really confused about what the whole point is — sex? Commitment? Marriage? Fun?’”
The lede to Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Bama Athreya’s 1988 column could easily be a text on anyone’s phone in 2011. The column explores the changing roles of women 20 years after the 1960s feminist movement.
Athreya observes that women on campus took on one of two reactions: to give up conventional relationships altogether or to revert back to traditional “family values.” Unsatisfied with either response, Athreya calls for a more insightful form of feminism, one that will “save us from a fear-leaden return to the past and lead us toward greater personal fulfillment for both men and women.
"[...] In its purest form, feminism should be humanism, the desire to create a better world for all of us.”
For more discussion on the identity of women on campus today, check out the 2011 Vagina Monologues performance at Irvine Auditorium this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
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