I accidentallt posted this quote in another thread...... here was my reply to your question......
"Annie Oakly comes to mind as a real deal, historical example of a "feminist" who was much more capable than her modern day counterparts, yet rejected the notion that her strength had to come at the expense of her natural feminine identity."
I noticed! I saw that and I was like "huh".... did he mean to post that here?
Glad you cleared it up! I was puzzled when I saw that
As far as Annie Oakly- Wikipedia doesn't list her as a feminist and I don't see any indication that she identified as one. I didn't know who that is. To my knowledge, she was a woman who did sharp-shooting sort of as a spectacle in some sort of traveling show if I understand correctly.
A woman doing sharp-shooting in a travelling show... to my understanding, she was basically sort of a circus act. She could be the most successful at that in the world but ten such women don't contribute as much to society as one mother. What she did sounds frivolous. I want people to build society, to build civilization. If a woman insists on an odd hobby like that- I guess she can but her being a circus act and doesn't really contribute to society. She seems like a historical curiosity.
I don't think Annie Oakly, the woman sharpshooter in an 1800's traveling show, is an important or really even significant story in the history of civilization.
If we think progress is having women engage in frivolities like joining a travelling show- I think we've lost purpose and direction as a civilization. If I was standing with the founders of Rome and we were saying "alright- let's build the Roman empire"- I don't think I'm going to say "okay- we need to make sure we get women who act in travelling shows- that's really important".
When people are building civilizations- making sure we get women to perform in travellling shows so we can be "progressive"- that is not what civilizations are built on. And I'll be "equal-opportunity" with this- I feel the same way towards sports. These things are literal "bread and circus" stuff.
Becoming engrossed in bread and circus non-issues is a symptom of civilization in decline. Placing importance on the history of woman sharpshooters in 1800's traveling shows is like getting sucked into something like stamp collecting or cultivating an intense apprecation for the watching of drying paint.
That sort of stuff is beneath us. We shouldn't use something that frivolous to distract from real issues.