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P.S. A FOLLOW UP POSTING

Is there a moral to the below post: the Oneida Story?  I can’t seem to find it.

I thought perhaps one avenue was the feminist angle. During the same week end adventure, we stopped at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. The current exhibit in Smith Art Center was Feminism: Phase 2.  All I could think was (1) this is ugly stuff and (2) it’s time to quit your whining and (3) under any banner in the universe, this would not be considered “art.”

At the same time, I do understand that women are not treated equally in any profession - including the arts - and I strain to resist and suggest that this situation must be amended for the good of humanity.  Do females need to turn their backs on parenthood and monogamous relationships to fully be considered equals , as in the Oenidas? I hope not. I hope there’s a more enlightened way. (But interestingly, is the very fact of the Oneida business success due to talented women’s equal ownership?)

There’s a message circulating on social media presumably authored by a middle eastern woman who warns about sharif law, its horrible treatment of women particularly and it’s growing influence in the western world…that somehow, this movement will overthrow our government through the voting system and we will find ourselves with girl children being sold to old men/husbands, stoned for any variety of reasons…an entire menu of miseries. 

Why is it that women and sex are used repeatedly for political and economic leverages? the “reason” for acting - or not acting - in reprehensible ways? and the kernel of fear mongering? female reproduction, a political issue? Is it a fundamental as CONTROL? If you control women, you control the culture? Well….yes…..