Date sent: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:50:08 EST
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Subject: Re: hypocrites?
> In a message dated 98-11-29 16:08:34 EST, you write:
>
> << Ecofeminists are struggling to break chains
> and ladders; to re-vision our systems and belief structures so that they
> support values of cooperation and sustainability. Does anyone out there have
> a better or different definition? This is my best shot at it (to use a
> patriarchal, macho metaphor)!
> >>
> Hi!
>
> Jane - Thanks for the explanation.
>
> How can we cooperate with each other if capitalism sets us up to compete with
> each other? Compete for the better job, the better position, the better pay?
> Are you sure it is just a matter of livelihood or is it lifestyle preference?
> sometimes you can't have it both ways - it might appear to others that Ecofems
> who say they blame patriarchial establishments for the Eco-crisis then support
> a women's right to claim a position within the establishment - is hypocritcal?
> How can you defend the right of a women to participate in what that that women
> is working to destroy - Are you working to revamp patriarchial to matriarchial
> or are you working to stop all forms of hierarchy?
>
> peace!
> Angela
>
Striving to outdo others is a function of power-over and is
competitive and unhealthy. Striving to do the best one can do is a
function of power-from-within and is meritorious and healthy. Joe
