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In La Revolution Surrealiste, the first women surrealists (1924-1929), I found that the surrealist movements for women were along the lines of the new woman movements in the states. In both cases I’ve learned that the women acted out against their parents or any figure of authority by dressing in skimpier clothing, wearing make-up, smoking, doing drugs and drinking alcohol as well as almost becoming an object of sex. Instead of repressing their feelings they just seemed to act on them as Freud had talked about in his theory of the Id, Ego and Super Ego. I’m all for the rebellious behavior because the women certainly needed to be heard from to be seen as equal and obtain equal rights as for things like voting but some of their ways about doing it I’m not sure I agree with. Dressing yourself in provocative clothing and letting yourself be had by any man isn’t the way of taking a stand but just showing you are simply just a sex object and lowering yourself to men even more.