{"id":89686,"date":"2016-03-11T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89686"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:01:46","slug":"feminism-the-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89686","title":{"rendered":"Feminism & The Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* I was there and suffered the full force of the beginnings of the feminist PMS movement. My first wife dove in head-first, literally, when the pill became available in the mid-sixties. She informed me she was her \u2018own\u2019 woman and could do with her body what \u2018I want to.\u2019 And she did. She told me straight away that she had done \u2018everything she could for me and it was time to move on.\u2019 And she did. Less than two years later, she was back at my door admitting that she had made a fool of herself \u2013 Would I consider reconciling? Nope. I had moved on. It was a bad time for me and has been since that year \u2013 1963 \u2013 so much so that I\u2019m surprised when people place the \u2018ovary revolution\u2019 during much later times.<\/p>\n

* On hard times, I had a job once, I won\u2019t say exactly what it was, but it required, shall we say, getting people to fulfil their legal obligations. These people, being somewhat disinclined to shoulder these obligations, would seek any means to shift or delay the burden. Taking offence, or rather, pretending to, was popular, as it brought, or so they believed, the relieving levity of righteousness to their side, and could even delay proceedings against them. One case sticks in my mind for its ridiculousness. I had to write a letter to a woman whose marital status I knew not, and so I decided, not unreasonably, to address her as \u201cMs\u201d, confident that here at least, in this tiny detail, in this honorific address fit regardless of marital status, there could be no opportunity for the offending party to pretend to be the offended party. I received a reply in which, sure enough, the woman brazenly seized the opportunity to be the offended party on account of my addressing her as \u201cMs\u201d. Her exclamation-marks came in triplicate: \u201cHow dare you address me as a \u2018Ms\u2019!!! I am a \u2018Miss\u2019!!!\u201d Etc. Etc. Naturally in the office it had to be noted, drolly but rather obviously, that she was very amiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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