Date sent: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:58:55 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Bertina Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monkey poem
Originally to: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That is how I viewed the poem, Angela. I am not sure how anyone cant see
> it as a satirical look at the differences between animals and the all
> too foible-laden humans.
>
> Bertina
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Aren't wives workers, too?
> On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 98-08-23 13:11:48 EDT, you write:
> >
> > << Sorry to upset anyone, but I think this poem
> > reinforces the stereotypical view of women as wives,
> > dependent upon men, and of motherhood as supreme
> > - not the thing I want to read on an ecofeminist list-serve.
> >
> > >>>>> No monkey ever deserted his wife,
> > >>>>> Starved his baby and ruined her life.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> And you've never known a mother monk,
> > >>>>> To leave her baby with others to bunk,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Or pass them on from one to the other,
> > >>>>> Till they hardly know who is their mother.
> >
> >
> > >>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I disagree! This poem does not reinforce that at all - all the poem is saying
> > is that if you do assume the role as wife/husband - mother/father than assume
> > that role with responsibility - not abandon them - monkeys do not abandon
> > family values so that is what the poem is implying that they can not be
> > related to humans who do - not saying that everyone should have family values
> > but that if you do decide to get married or have children do it responsibly
> > and don't abandon your commitments so easily as some humans do!
> > Thanks! Angela
> >
> >
> >
