Rant....

Just as my good friend Darren posted on his oh so amazing blog Bad Grammer Good Blog this week my post will also be in the style of a rant. My rant will be directed at Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of Herland, and to women. I would like to note that I really have nothing against women, but I thought it would be fun to experiment with this style of posting.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who do you think you are? Who are you to say women would be able to have a fully sufficient society without the assistance of men. Not only is this improbable, it is impossible. I don't care if this is a fiction novel, the idea of human beings gaining the ability of parthenogenesis is just stupid and far fetched. She continues to assert females as the stronger sex and that males are actually weaker. Yes women have faced oppression for thousands of years, but does Gilman really think she can just put an end to all this oppression by "freeing" an entire society of women from male's "rule"? No, she cannot, and should have never had an inkling of hope that she could. I also don't know where she came up with her theory that "The only reason a female has not withered away completely is that each 'girl child inherits from her father a certain increasing percentage of human development, human power, human tendency." This is a very illogical statement as she first says that women continue to live because of the infusion of the male's gene, but then says that everything the father adds to the child is negative. Really Charlotte? Really? Charlotte Gilman Perkins, we are all now dumber for having read your novel and your comments on women and how men seem to be unnecessary. This is no utopia! This is a mockery of a "perfect" society.

Now I'm not gonna say I'm the best "ranter" around, but I gotta start somewhere.....

Quotes from: "Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins GIlman and Herland"