On the Birth of Feminist Intersectional Cultural Values

 
Robert Frost, "Mending Wall""

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:

I have come after them and made repair

Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,

But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’

We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game,

One on a side. It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offense.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,

But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather

He said it for himself. I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father’s saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

The Cult of "Ladies"?

I'm pretty sure that the 'framing term' Lady contains a delimited content within the frame which one can pursue Independence and an undelimited one outside the frame which one cannot, and still be call a Lady....

...but then that would be an historio-linguistic, ergo "social" and "cultural" construction.  So perhaps the meaning contained within the frame of lady has been expanded by other discourses, especially a discourse of "capitalist realism" which then required an ample supply of "cheap labour" during an historic period of shortage.

Black Rosie

White Rosie

BOTH Riveting Labourers

When WWII ended - the Post-Modern Historic period began, and a new historical era of "capitalist realism" began.  One in which "Academics" began weighing and assigning "intersectional values" to the remnants of the historical ingredients of a newly but only partially homogenized American culture.  And what did they know of their worth?  Was their newly re-framed and assigned "intersectional" worth purely a matter of an historic/ moral nature?  It would appear so.  Woke moralism.

Nietzsche - Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense.

The Revaluation of all Values.