Such an omission got me thinking – the male standard is THE standard in most cultures. (Please don’t stop reading because you don’t want to hear a feminist rant – this is good stuff!)

Sara recently sent Brenda and me an article about Judy Chicago, an artist whose 1974 piece, The Dinner Party, analyzes the overwhelmingly male event, The Last Supper, from the perspective of the women who probably cooked up that final feast. In the Slate article, a male critic is quoted as telling Judy, “You know, Judy, you have to decide whether you’re going to be a woman or an artist.”

Judy’s femininity is a part of her being. A woman creating art and, also, a woman who owns her own business, are not living their lives as an affront to the men of the world, they are just practicing what they love. If they do not go about these undertakings as a man would, well that’s because they are not men! I would not say that I want Hofstead’s cultural dimensions to be forced into change because of developing societies in which women have the most power – that would be awfully unequal. Let’s just work towards a world where men and women alike are more understanding of the many paths that lead to the same peak.

Read the Slate article here.