Interesting opinion piece addressing why Greta makes adults uncomfortable

[Valentina327]

When she learns to clean her own room, pay her own mortgage, pay taxes, then she can have a say in how the world is run

Wasn't Mary about 14 years old when she became pregnant with Jesus?

At the age of 16, Alexander the Great was the regent in charge of Macedon while his father was off fighting abroad.

Malala Yousafzai received her Nobel Prize at the age of 17.

Well, when people lived to be 28, the first two were middle aged ...

[morgan]

Why describe Greta as a “ child”?
She’s a teenager.
So much unecessary drama here.

Because by law a 16 year old is "a minor child".

[morgan]

When she learns to clean her own room, pay her own mortgage, pay taxes, then she can have a say in how the world is run

Wasn't Mary about 14 years old when she became pregnant with Jesus?

At the age of 16, Alexander the Great was the regent in charge of Macedon while his father was off fighting abroad.

Malala Yousafzai received her Nobel Prize at the age of 17.

Well, when people lived to be 28, the first two were middle aged ...

Awh well hell maybe we need to just do away with minor laws all together right? It's okay kids. Drink, smoke, drive, take out a loan and buy a house, get pregnant, have an abortion. I know you're only 14 but that's how old Mary was when she had Jesus! Go for it!

[Valentina327]

Wasn't Mary about 14 years old when she became pregnant with Jesus?

At the age of 16, Alexander the Great was the regent in charge of Macedon while his father was off fighting abroad.

Malala Yousafzai received her Nobel Prize at the age of 17.

Well, when people lived to be 28, the first two were middle aged ...

Awh well hell maybe we need to just do away with minor laws all together right? It's okay kids. Drink, smoke, drive, take out a loan and buy a house, get pregnant, have an abortion. I know you're only 14 but that's how old Mary was when she had Jesus! Go for it!

[Deleted User 276]

I hope that those on here dismissing Thunberg are mothers of young children. Because if they had teens, they would know that teens are capable of amazing thought and activism. Why would we discourage this? Shit. OK Boomer.

[Deleted User 1461]

I hope that those on here dismissing Thunberg are mothers of young children. Because if they had teens, they would know that teens are capable of amazing thought and activism. Why would we discourage this? Shit. OK Boomer.

Yes
Very true!

[Deleted User 1461]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/these-6- ... 8ff38b63e/
Amazing accomplishments by youngsters

[Aletheia]

I think if Miss Thunberg were to dial back the aggression, she would be met with more compliance from people

"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History" --Laurel Ulrich

The new book explores how and why it is that women who act in unexpected ways tend to be remembered, while more conventional women fade into the past.

In “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” (Knopf, September 2007), Ulrich examines a pivotal moment in each of these women’s lives, describing ways in which they broke with conventional behavior in order to re-create themselves and make a place in history. For Christine de Pizan, the moment was when she included Amazons, or women warriors, in “The City of Ladies.” For Stanton it was an encounter with a runaway slave that helped shape her position on women’s suffrage. And for Woolf, it was the creation of Shakespeare’s gifted, imaginary sister and the trials that she would have faced as a female writer.

Throughout history, “good” women’s lives were largely domestic, notes Ulrich. Little has been recorded about them because domesticity has not previously been considered a topic that merits inquiry. It is only through unconventional or outrageous behavior that women’s lives broke outside of this domestic sphere, and therefore were recorded and, thus, remembered by later generations.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/ ... e-history/

[Deleted User 1461]

I think if Miss Thunberg were to dial back the aggression, she would be met with more compliance from people

"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History" --Laurel Ulrich

The new book explores how and why it is that women who act in unexpected ways tend to be remembered, while more conventional women fade into the past.

In “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” (Knopf, September 2007), Ulrich examines a pivotal moment in each of these women’s lives, describing ways in which they broke with conventional behavior in order to re-create themselves and make a place in history. For Christine de Pizan, the moment was when she included Amazons, or women warriors, in “The City of Ladies.” For Stanton it was an encounter with a runaway slave that helped shape her position on women’s suffrage. And for Woolf, it was the creation of Shakespeare’s gifted, imaginary sister and the trials that she would have faced as a female writer.

Throughout history, “good” women’s lives were largely domestic, notes Ulrich. Little has been recorded about them because domesticity has not previously been considered a topic that merits inquiry. It is only through unconventional or outrageous behavior that women’s lives broke outside of this domestic sphere, and therefore were recorded and, thus, remembered by later generations.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/ ... e-history/

Well said!