We Older Women Who Know We Aren't

Can One Consider Controversy Without Falling Into It?

Mythology Is Like Gravity, Inconvenient At Times, But Necessary For Cohesion.

Today, What Most People Live In, Or With, Is The Less-than-nuclear Family. Working Fathers Are Absent From Home During Most Of The Day, The Children Are Schooled Outside It, And Practically All Women Who Work For Money Must Go Outside To Earn Their Living.

We Are In A Double Bind. We Are Expected To Feel Inferior Not Only As Women, But Because We Are Old.

How Can You Communicate Your Thoughts Or Demonstrate Your Hypotheses By Conventional Means When All The Values And Standards That You Want To Challenge Are Built Into Those Means? Science And New Technology Today Like To Declare That They Encourage 'lateral Thinking,' New Ways Of Seeing And Putting Data Together - But All Systems Have An Inbuilt Resistance To What Has Not Been Programmed Into Them Through The Premises On Which Their Rules Are Based.