Gloria Steimen Chat Transcript. June 28,1995. WITI. http://wysiwyg://55/http://www.witi.org/center/c...rences/archives/95channels/transtei/shtml. May 24,2000.
This is an interview with Gloria Stiemen and Wendie Bernstein Lash is the interviewer. In this interview they discuss how Gloria first got involved in the feminist movement and other issues such as gun control. But the topic of their converstation that I would like to focus on is this, Gloria was given this question by a man listener in the audience who is commenting on seeing life through a womans perspective, "...An unexpected outcome of the movement, is the decay of "romance" among the young...especially women." Gloria responded with this "I am not so upset by the decline of romance because I think love is when you want what is the best for the other person, but romance is when you want the other person. To me, romance is two incomplete people looking for the rest of themselves in each other. It's very intense but dooned because no one can supply the rest of yourself. However, when the calance of power is more equal, perhaps romance will come back in a less harmful form as the most intense form of cuiosity."
I chose this article because of this question she was asked. In a world where we are constatly changing we expect our ideals of love and romance to change as well, but for some these are the hardest traditions and ideologies to break. Courtship is still very prevelant in sociaty and I think it effects women and feminists the most. In a feminist world of independence, individuality, and identity it is hard for some to want or even accept chivalry or romance when this is some of what holds our nation together. What is the glue of love if you don't have romance, passion, and a little bit of lust in your relationship? If you submit yourself to it it does not make you less of a woman, or weak, or less of a feminist activist. It makes you a woman, and a human being. Every body wants to be touched and love and needed, and if we don't have this in our sociaty we are giving up a lot of who we are as human beings.
This is an interesting form of information on the web because it is an actual narrative between two people. You get to hear their linguistics and how the conversation is directed other then reading an monotonous factual description flooded with statistics. It gives a very personal feel and I belive it gets a truer reaction from people because in essence this whole conversation is just one persons opinion.
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