We Matter Too (ON HOLD)

Part 5.

"You know what I hate?

When brothers make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy

And since we all came from a woman

Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman

I wonder why we take from our women

Why we rape our women, do we hate our women

I think it's time to kill for our women

Time to heal our women, be real to our women

And if we don't we'll have a race of babies

That will hate the ladies that make the babies

And since a man can't make one

He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one

So will the real men get up

I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up"

-Tupac

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

-Brigham Young

"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch."

-Bette Davis

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

-Rebecca West

"Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth. Deal with it."

-George Carlin

"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."

-Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

"What's the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don't hold back, now.

You're probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.

Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I've even heard the term "mangina."

Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that's not royally fucked up."

-Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

"Above all things there are the women who, as a literal fact, dominate the entire life in America. The men take an interest in absolutely nothing at all. They work and work, the like of which I have never seen anywhere yet. For the rest they are the toy dogs of the women, who spend the money in a most unmeasurable, illimitable way and wrap themselves in a fog of extravagance. They do everything which is the vogue and now quite by chance they have thrown themselves on the Einstein fashion."

-Albert Einstein

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Speaking of Albert Einstein........

Einstein was driven to write the list when, in 1914,he realised that after 11 years, his marriage to first wife Maric - one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe - was destined for failure.

Realising that salvaging their personal relationship was a lost cause, ever the pragmatist, Einstein proposed that he and Maric should stay together for the sake of the children.

But with his proposal came an austere list of demands to which his wife must adhere.

Shockingly the list demanded Maric continue to act as maid to her erstwhile husband - yet should expect no affection or attention in return.

The scientist demanded that she keep his rooms tidy, bring him three meals a day (to be eaten in his room), keep his clothes and laundry in good order, and keep his bedroom and study neat (she should not use his desk, of course).

There would seemingly be no benefits to Maric in return. In fact, Einstein stipulates in his list of conditions, printed in Isaacson's book (via website listsofnote.com), that she must not expect Einstein to either sit with her, or accompany her outside of the house - and she must stop talking when he requests.

She must 'renounce all personal relations' not strictly essential for social reasons - which should not include expecting to be accompanied on social engagements.

In addition, Einstein stipulated that his wife should not expect any intimacy from him, should not reproach him in any way; should stop talking to him if he requested it; should leave his bedroom or study immediately without protest if requested, and should refrain from belittling him in front of the children, either through words or behaviour.

Pragmatic: Einstein predicted early on that he would have to seek solace in science when his personal relationships failed

The more Neanderthal-minded males out there may well be nodding sagely in accordance with Einstein's outrageous demand - but women's jaws will no doubt be collectively hitting the floor.

And it seems that Einstein's wife, although she initially agreed to her husband's unreasonably demands, ultimately had the same reaction.

Just a few months after he issued his misogynistic manifesto, she left Einstein in Berlin and moved with their sons, Hans Albert and Eduard (their daughter, Lieserl, born in 1902, was given up for adoption), to Zurich.

Five years later she filed for divorce and, in 1919, it was granted.

The outcome would come as no surprise to the scientist's former girlfriends.

Indeed, Isaacson reveals how as a young man, Einstein predicted in a letter to the mother of his first girlfriend that the 'joys of science' would be a refuge from 'painful personal emotions'.

As testament to that fact, the father of the theory of relativity is known to have had many liaisons throughout his marriage to Maric. In fact, he became involved with Elsa, a first cousin who would become his second wife, in 1912, when he was still married to his first wife.

Given the circumstances in which they met, Elsa may have expected a certain level of dalliance from her new husband.

And of course, although Einstein married Elsa in 1919, within four years he was already involved with Bette Neumann, his secretary and the niece of one of his friends.

'His conquest of general relativity proved easier than finding the formulas for the forces swirling within his family,' Isaacson says.

Something the women who loved him learned the hard way.

Source: daily mail UK

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Author's note!

Am I the only one that finds this Einstein list thing outrageous?!?

One of the world's most smartest ma happened to be a, excuse my French, douchebag!

What are your thoughts on Einstein's behaviour towards Maric?

Oh, and what do you guys want to see in this book? I mean, we are all kinda writing it together, y'know? Tell me what you think :)

The list in the next chapter...

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