Meaning of female obedience
Hi. I am confused about the meaning of "female obedience". Does it mean females are obedient or males are obedient?
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Well may you ask in the present climate. The ordinary way of interpreting those two words in that order is that it is the female who is obedient.
- Well may you ask in the present climate.
- The ordinary way of interpreting those two words in that order is that it is the female who is obedient.
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Well may you ask in the present climate.
The ordinary way of interpreting those two words in that order is that it is the female who is obedient.
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“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
? Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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