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Student handouts ca. 1970
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21. Women are shown their image as either unpaid household laborer or sex object on TV, in the schools, in magazines and newspapers: they begin to believe in their own inferiority. The position of women in this society benefits the men they clean for and sleep with, the bosses they break strikes for, and accept lower wages and boring jobs from. We recognize our oppression as benefiting the U.S. Imperialist system just as the oppression of black and third world peoples has benefited this system, creating reserve labor and resources to be used at the discretion of the rich. A woman, however, can achieve a financially stable position through dependence on a man. We realize that a male supremacist system whose main purpose is to accumulate profit for the few will not willingly grant the following demands. We realize that we will have to take the following through collective struggle, to form a society that serves all the people. (1) We demand that a system of day care centers be established. (2) We demand that free adequate health care be available for all people. (3) We demand that women be given free self-defense and physical training. (4) We demand that women receive equal pay, equal work and equality in the job market. (5) We demand that every individual in this society receive a guaranteed adequate income. (6) We demand an immediate end to the sexism which permeates our cultural media. (7) We demand an end to tracking in the schools and the immediate establishment of free and relevant education. (8) We demand an end to the definition of individuals in terms of their personal relationships with others.
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21. Women are shown their image as either unpaid household laborer or sex object on TV, in the schools, in magazines and newspapers: they begin to believe in their own inferiority. The position of women in this society benefits the men they clean for and sleep with, the bosses they break strikes for, and accept lower wages and boring jobs from. We recognize our oppression as benefiting the U.S. Imperialist system just as the oppression of black and third world peoples has benefited this system, creating reserve labor and resources to be used at the discretion of the rich. A woman, however, can achieve a financially stable position through dependence on a man. We realize that a male supremacist system whose main purpose is to accumulate profit for the few will not willingly grant the following demands. We realize that we will have to take the following through collective struggle, to form a society that serves all the people. (1) We demand that a system of day care centers be established. (2) We demand that free adequate health care be available for all people. (3) We demand that women be given free self-defense and physical training. (4) We demand that women receive equal pay, equal work and equality in the job market. (5) We demand that every individual in this society receive a guaranteed adequate income. (6) We demand an immediate end to the sexism which permeates our cultural media. (7) We demand an end to tracking in the schools and the immediate establishment of free and relevant education. (8) We demand an end to the definition of individuals in terms of their personal relationships with others.
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