Will Bason wrote:
> Governments can to be considered "us" not "them".
I think this statement can more comfortably be made by a man than a
woman. Considering that it is only this past century or so that women in
the west have been allowed to vote, own property, survive without a male
benefactor, participate in life outside the home, and considering also
that women are a long way from being equally represented in government,
in academia, in business, do not receive equal pay for equal work,
considering that women in many eastern countries are still bound and
chained to a life a drudgery and abuse at the hands of their husbands, I
think it is very much "us" versus "them" - not that I want to fuel a war
between the sexes, per se, but as one is in progress currently, I don't
think it behoves women to continue in a passive role.
Or to put it another way: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it
any more!!!
> This is a much more
> powerful place to change from.
Or perhaps would be if women were adequately represented, and thus were
able to influence the hopelessly unbalanced male structures, in all
social spheres.
> The wish for economic expansion is the
> wishes of all of us multiplied.
Not my wishes, buddy.
> Who of us is content? I think the war
> against the patriarchy is really being fought inside of us, inside our
>
> heads, as we take responsibility for our own lives, grow up, and stop
> looking to big daddy to help us or blaming him when things go wrong.
Which "big Daddy" would that be, Will? Do you mean the government? And
if so, the mere fact that "he" can be referred to as "big Daddy" is the
problem. In fact whatever you mean by "big Daddy" - that's the problem.
I agree that many members of society need to "grow up", and I put it to
you, that the majority of these would be male.
A friend of mine has a favourite theory that what is lacking for men in
modern society is an initiation ceremony that helps them to grow from
boyhood into manhood. Childbirth serves this purpose for women, but men
do not routinely go through a similar experience, (unless there's a war
to go to, which is more or less the opposite of childbirth) which places
them at the mercy of life, commits them to intense physical and
emotional involvement. I think my friend has a point.
Lee.
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