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Press, 31 May 1977, Page 35

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VARIATIONS ON A THEME

.enjoyed being embraced Iby men, particularly within the context of! marriage. “Yes. and the people who hold those respectable medical and psychological opinions are ; themselves all men.” exclaimed Ms Strident. • “What value can you ■ place on the opinions of people like men?” she ; asked. “Anyway, we don’t I just say that women should be entitled to 100 per cent of their husband’s property merely ’ because they are embraced by them. The squalor and drudgery, the bitterness and misery of running a home and raising children entitles ■ women to 150 per cent and if there was any way we could get 150 per ; cent, that is what we i would be after.

Ms Barbra Strident, the] well-known women’s liberationist. is lobbying both major political parties to include in next electoral platforms a proposal to amend the Matrimonial Property Act, 1976. At present the act gives a wife half the home and half her husband’s business when the couple split up. Ms Strident believes the wife’s share should be increased to 100 per cent. “Any woman who has to submit to the horrible, hairy, beery embraces of a husband deserves all his property,” said Ms Strident during an interview which she gave us. We pointed out that there was a respectable body of medical and psy-j chological opinion to the effect that many women

i Again we pointed out that evidence (tended to suggest that many women found running a home and raising a family pleasurable and fulfilling. “Yes, and no doubt Quisling found it pleasurable and fulfilling to betray Norway to the (Nazis,” cried Ms Strident. (“Women can do without ■ women like that even if (women like that are the majority of women.” Ms Strident also told us that the official anthem of the women’s liberation movement was being changed from Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman” to her own waxing of a composition by herself entitled “You Are Man And You Are Extremely Unpleasant.”