one flew over the cuckoo's nes

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Man wakes up. Man goes to work. Man comes home and eats the dinner that his wife made for him. Man goes to sleep. This has been the traditional role of a man for hundreds of years, yet in the 1960’s that role was being challenged by a strong feminist movement. Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the 1960’s and in it he …

…A woman who is under consideration for a raise will attend the interview with the most conservative business suit she can find. By simply having laws of equal opportunity we have not made women’s position equal to that of men, but have forced women to be men in order to be in an equal position. Man still wakes up, goes to work, and comes home, only now, that man can also be a woman.