Show I Time To t Spare t By GERALD ANDREWS Retirement Adviser The Oppressed Majority The other night I put down my newspaper looked at my wife and sold said To put it plainly have you OU felt oppressed since you married me She looked amused Oppressed Oppressed Op flOp pressed Whatever do you mean We both knew I was setting selling my DIY myown myown own trap but I pointed to the tho newspaper Ive Ivo been reading here about what they call the women's liberation movement As Asa a dumb male Im I'm confused Would you ears care to enlighten me She thought a moment then said when my mother moth er got gol decked out In n her Amelia Bloomer outfit and marched with other suffragettes for women's rights in 1918 1910 That's the spirit of today's movement too Well they won the tho right to vote didn't they What's the gripe now That was only a beginning sho she said ald Women still get lower salaries than men And fewer pro pro- motions Discrimination that's that what Besides many women today today today to to- day want day care taro centers so o when hen they need to work to help the family somebody will take takeI I care core of their children Complaints complaints I said sold Mostly 1 those gals sound hysterical and they also hato halo men en Those are aro only the tho oddballs the tho extremists she claimed list But the tho majority are arc struggling for equal rights and full dignity I support them he said firmly ir Well I t. t argue arguo with r that But Hut she sho sUll hadn't answered answered answer answer- ed my original question Slavs JIava you felt oppressed all these years with me meT She Sho looked at mo me seriously No she said That because you let me be free to make mako choices on the tho kind of life wa we have But lots of women feel they cant can't find complete fulfillment in ina n na a husband or children Some also need a career Isn't it unfair to any human being to be discriminated mated against by laws and customs customs cus toms Everybody should have the tho right to decide what kind of life is best belt for her or him She has bas a point Shouldn't women wo woo men be allowed to be human beings beings be be- ings too have babies manage a store run a n corporation or even perhaps be president What's your views on the women's women's wo woo mens men's liberation movement Drop me a note in cora care of this newspaper news newa paper Id I'd liko like to hear I |