Hardy
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
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 Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:44 am Post subject: |
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Firstly allow me to apologize for the lateness of my reply, I was not at school on Friday, as you may have noticed, though if you didn't I will not be offended. Due to a number of factors, which I will not share, for delving too deeply into one's own personal life is hardly modest. Nevertheless, and despite the fact that few will in any likelihood see this comment I will proceed with my analysis.
The packet raised many questions for me. I found her understanding of people's perception of the quote lacking. The author seems to believe that people have interpreted the slogan as meaning that good behavior is an "outdated norm", but personally, and I believe many others have had a similar response, I thought of the quote (before reading the packet) as meaning that to incite change, or make a mark on the world one must go against the norms contemporary to one's time period. After having written this our opinions seem to differ significantly less drastically, though hers still feels somehow distinct.
I would also like to mention a question, as questions made up the better part of my active reading. I was wondering why you, dear peers, think that the original meaning of the quote was lost so thoroughly. Why, did people find the notion that to make change one must defy norms so much more appealing than the notion that, so called, average women do not appear in history? My personal guess would be that the second notion is not particularly radical. It seems to me that pointing out the lack of remembrance of "average" women is scholarly flotsam, the idea is neither new nor particularly deserving of mention. Yes it is true that normal women are not mentioned in history, but neither are normal men, history in most cases records the exploits of exceptional individuals, therefore her original purpose for saying "well behaved women seldom make history" is rather banal. In this I would venture is the reason people reinterpreted the quote to make it an inspirational statement to action without consideration to social norms concerning womanhood. |
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