The Death of Innocence!

Feminist Manifesto, pg 1502-1505

WOW!!! First of all you must understand the conditions that women were living in in the early 1900's. The old saying that women need to be "in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant" obviously came from this era. I had wished there was more to her small biography to explain and give a bigger and more vivid picture of her life. This woman was definitely a woman scorned. I believe that she must of had some kind of tragedy created by a man just by the way she emphasizes some of her words. Mina says on page 1503 that, "Leave off looking to men to find out what you are NOT" tells me that she is upset for giving so much of her life for what, her suppression by a man. Mina Loy was definitely "outside the box" per say because of the era that she wrote this in. That is probably why it was never published during her lifetime. She takes the time to let women know that just because you like sex does not make you a whore, women should embrace sex. She states this on page 1503 when she basically says that there is no division between the mistress and the mother. This point also comes full circle when she says on page 1504, that you have to get ride of your morale excellence. I believe that when Mina says that women need to have their virginity surgically removed, she was telling young women to express themselves through what God has givin them. Mina was upset because women in this era were to live like the Bible states. Unfortunately, the whole, women are sub-servant to men issue in the Bible was mis-interpreted. Both men and women are equal but have their special skills for life in general. What Mina stood for has come full circle because in this day and age, virginity is something that is "a bonus" when a man and a women get married. The sexual revolution has brought on abortion at an all time rate, not to mention all the std's that our teenagers now live with the rest of their lives. Mina was absolutely right in trying to break the suppression of women. I wonder, if she believed in this so much to write it down on paper, then why did she not try to get it published?