# Mr. Oscar Browning

By [cola](https://paragraph.com/@cola-4) · 2022-10-21

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Although this is possible now, even fifty years ago, it would still make people shocked if the big people said such words. Let's suppose that a father, out of kindness, would not let his daughter leave home to be a writer, painter or scholar. He would have said, "Listen to Mr. Oscar Browning." Moreover, far more than Mr. Oscar Browning said so, there was the Saturday Review, and there was Mr. Greg - "the essence of women's existence". Mr. Greg said categorically, "It is to provide for and serve men."—— There are numerous views of male chauvinism, which generally mean that women's talents are unattainable. Even if the girl's father did not preach, she could read these ideas herself. Such articles, even if they were read today in the 19th century, would make people feel disheartened, and her works would also be affected and discounted. There will always be someone who will tell you decisively - this is something you can't do, that is something you can't do - and we should protest to get rid of this influence. Perhaps for novelists, this kind of bacteria is no longer easy to infect people, because there are already outstanding female novelists. But painters must still be troubled by it. And I think musicians, even now, must still suffer from it. The status of a female composer is the same as that of an actress in Shakespeare's time. I thought of the story I made up about Shakespeare's sister. Nick Green once said that women acting made him think of dogs dancing.

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Two hundred years later, Johnson repeated the same words to the women who preached. When I open a book about music, I can say that in 1928, these words appeared again for women who tried to compose music. "As for Miss Germena Tayever, I can only repeat the wise words Dr. Johnson said to a woman priest, but it should be replaced by music. 'Sir, a woman plays music like a dog walks on its hind legs. The music is naturally bad, but it's amazing that she even writes music.'" \[45\] The reappearance of history is so impeccable. Therefore, when I close the biography of Mr. Oscar Browning and leave aside others, my conclusion is that, even in the nineteenth century, women were not encouraged to become artists. On the contrary, women are ignored, insulted, admonished and exhorted. If they want to resist one thing and oppose another, they will be nervous and exhausted. Here, we are still talking about the very interesting but unnoticed male complex, which has had a great impact on the women's movement. This deep-rooted desire, that is, instead of making her inferior, let him be superior, so that he not only stands in front of art everywhere, but also blocks the road to politics, even if the risk to him is minimal, and the beggars are humble and loyal.

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She then devoted all her enthusiasm to the topic that was extremely important and unimpeded for her. It was Lord Granville's first speech in the House of Commons. This seems to me a strange situation. The history of men's opposition to women's liberation may be more interesting than the history of women's liberation itself. If one of the students of Glenn or Newham College collects examples and deduces any theory, she can write an interesting book - however, she should prepare a pair of thick gloves to wear on her hands and have a rock like will to protect herself.

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