Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Eastern Europe's revolution are sobering for all, but especially for women: faster than anyone, they are losing their jobs, their social services, their economic independence. As conservative values are revived, the rights to abortion and divorce, for example, are coming under increasing fire. Yet women themselves often share that conservatism: communism never really erased traditional family values from their countries...
...most lesbians, however, being gay is basically a joyful experience. They seem to find lasting relationships more readily than gay men do. They face somewhat less harassment from strangers. AIDS does not haunt them as a constant personal threat. And many share a deep sense of community, bolstered by the philosophical and practical successes of feminism...
...talking about resurrecting chivalry, as conservatives claim to want, or about government censorship, which liberals rightly fear. I'm talking about men engaging in some serious self-scrutiny, challenging their prejudices and privileges, taking their fair share of responsibility for the mess we are in. Men should ask themselves why they like what they like, and what messages those preferences send to men, and women, and children. When Christopher Hitchens, for example, writes in his Nation column that he finds 2 Live Crew very funny, what is he saying about his capacity for empathy? Maybe if he knew...
...women's issue" is a serious misnomer. Women can't fix it on their own and shouldn't be expected to. Society doesn't expect Jews to stop anti-Semitism, or blacks to stop racism, or children to end child abuse. Until we demand that men do their share, we will always be going around in circles: safety vs. freedom, daring vs. fear...
...their part, many women fully expect to do their share as breadwinners, though not necessarily out of personal choice so much as financial need. "Of course we will work," says Kimberly Heimert, 21, of Germantown, Tenn., a senior at American University. "What are we going to do? Stay at home? When I get married, I expect to contribute 50% of my family's income...