Sayers

 Class notes --
all humans are unique, women are human, women are unique
 this would be the unstated

All humans equal, all men and women humans, all men and women are equal. She never states that.
definitions - equality - picks out
so, equality is another enthymeme
metonmymy - men and women part of the whole

Kaffir and Frenchman - possible and impossible

Arguing against maxims- so pointing out that the maxims are not true

"That is so obvious"...(318) implication

humor

Guides us to the "human being" point! - bits and pieces create the overall enthymeme -  so, a form of repetition - internalization; repetition when effectively done.

The technical communication

318
Even then, issues with being defined as a feminist

aggresive feminism?

meaningless slogans ... calls for qualifiers

Kaffir (ugh  - hate that term) and Frenchman

mechanically minded people and poets - what we are "meant" to do by nature/ inclination

319
"but, that a womanisjust as much an ordinary human being
as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right
to the tastes and preferences of an-indirid_ual. What is repugnant to every
human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as\
an individual person."

"What
is unreasonable and irritating is to assume that all ones tastes and preferences
' have to be cond1t10ned by the class to which one belongs. That has ,
been the very common error into which men have frequently fallen about J'r'
women-and it is the error into _which feminisq women are, perhaps, a little inclined to fall about themselves."

The individual woman  wanting education- not based as class

320
women shouldn't try to mould themselves into men's medieval academic world - unsound - ha!
"not even amusing"

"To this we may very properly reply: "It is true that they are u~ing.
Even on men they are remarkably unattractive. But, as you men have discovered
for yourselves, they are comfortable, they do not get in the way
of one's activities like skirts and they protect the wearer from draughts
about the ankles. As a human being, I like comfort and dislike draughts."

"But we are not such abandoned copy-cats as to
attach these useful garments to our bodies with braces. There we draw the
line. These machines of leather and elastic are unnecessary and unsuited
to the female form."

"The only decent reason for tackling any job is that
your job, and you want to do it."

321
Asserts Men, have taken jobs from the women

"It is useless to urge the modern woman to have twelve
children, like her grandmother. Where is she to put them when she has
got them? And what modern man wants to be bothered with them? It is
perfectly idiotic to take away women's traditional occupations and then complain
because she looks for new ones. E~--~()tnan is a human being-one
cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation, if
he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."
Too funny!

" But they cannot have it both ways. If they are
1ing to adopt the very sound principle that the job should be done by the J
son who does it best, then that rule must be applied universally"

322
 Men get job and family

the office - everyone hates certain kinds of work

"In fact, there is perhaps
, only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his
job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand·
is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she iS:
a woman, we say she is a freak."

323
no special knowledge of "a women's point of view"

" Even where women have special knowledge, they may disagree among themselves
like other specialists. Do doctors never quarrel or scientists disagree?
Are women __ ~eally not human, that they should be expected to toddle along
a~HOck llk.e-··sneepH-drink that people should be allowed to drink as
much wine and beer as they can afford and is good for them; Lady Astor
thinks nobody should be allowed to drink anything of the sort. Where is the
"woman's point of view"?"

324

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