Date sent: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:40:33 EST
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Subject: Re: new participant/reply Ecofem lit
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm new here, though I know some of you. I'm Jane King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> I'd like to briefly revisit the debate about patriarchy and ecofeminism that
> I've been following, as I don't think we should too blithely dismiss the
> connection between the degradation of the earth, oppression of women, and
> patriarchy. The roots are ancient, deep, archetypal, and embodied in our
> language, our beliefs, our systems and our politics. Even the current
> discussion re mastery over animals comes out of the intrinsic (in our global
> society) belief in the authority of masters, which is a patriarchal notion.
> It's not just a question of sky gods vs. earth gods, or Christian vs.
> pantheist, either, but is far more complicated. For me it is a question: how
> can we stop participating in systemic beliefs and their results and instead
> create real change based on diversity and sustainability? How can we make the
> leap beyond?
>
> Sincerely,
> Jane
>
A poem for you...
I've got your prison world-view dangling;
It's been dangling all the time.
No use for existential wrangling;
Freely flowing without rhyme
We're merely puppets playing mime.
And the funny thing
Is we hold the strings
But we're ignorant and strangling
Caught knotted, hung and mangled
Within our tangling lines.
We're Masters of our Dreaming
But still Slaves to our Seeming.
"Shred the Dread!" I am screaming
But I see the Bars. They're mine.
You pathetic little people!
Why don't you realize?
It's easy - just open your eyes!
Not those on the surface, all they see is dread;
But the eyes inside your heads
I cry to you
And smile in me
And pray for the We
That some day may be
That you'll See.
