Question 3:
Most of you have described a confrontation with some boundary, be it part of yourself, society or the media, "feminism" or other women. Yet these conflicts seem to have encouraged your voices as intellectuals. Is there anything to be said for boundaries, or more traditional notions of privacy? Could we suffer from too much sexual candor?





Nancy Friday:
If I may stray a bit from the "boundaries" of the question, let me add that I think this kind of Internet exchange can help loosen boundaries among women because we aren't doing this while sitting around a table, inevitably checking each other out. In my experience, women, starting young, edit speech and behavior in reaction to each other's looks and voices. It starts at birth, listening to Mother's judgmental voice. And everyone reacts to looks. Even trained nurses in the pediatric wards pick up the pretty babies first.
     So we are spared here the judgments laid when everyone is present, eyeing one another. So too we are not competing over beauty, understandably, the first thing feminism threw out.
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