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Or how to dress or what is “beautiful”, what shape to be, or what to do to please men

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Until The Pill freed women from pregnancy in the early 6Os, pleasing men was our whole life. I went to a small Catholic women's college, which I had the good sense to transfer out of. The saying was a girl went there to get her MRS degree. They used to sing "I wanna get married/I wanna be a wife/I'm sick and tired/Of this damn college life" to "Pomp and Circumstance" AKA the graduation song.

Before then, women could be either a wife, or a nun, or a prostitute. I hope you recognize that women's freedom is a very recent thing in all of human history.

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