--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Ingegerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > Or - put on a burka. > > Ingegerd > > Good one! I've always wondered why so many spiritual > movements give such power to the penis and vagina. > They don't bite, do they? To be in bondage to the > genitals is such a strange thing!
When my then-boyfriend and I took our flying block at MIU, I was initially very scornful of and pissed off by the separation of men and women, even for the lectures. A week or so into the course, after we'd been flying for a while, I was walking with the women from my pod to the dining hall when we encountered some men one of them knew, and we stopped to chat. At that point the only man I'd spent any time with at all was my boyfriend; we'd sneak quick meetings every now and then to compare notes on our experiences (he was having a very tough time with unstressing; I wasn't). Anyway, to my astonishment and consternation--and unlike when I was with my boyfriend--I found I was extremely uncomfortable in the men's presence; I could hardly wait to get away. They were perfectly nice guys, gentlemanly, not raucous, but there was something about their vibe--can't think of any other way to describe it--that was very disturbing to the vibe I was experiencing at the time. Not a *bad* vibe per se, just one that was strongly incompatible with mine. This was a completely gut reaction, like, say, a fingernail on a blackboard, just jarring. My women course buddies and I hadn't talked about men vs. women, and we hadn't gotten any explanation about why men and women were separated on the course; and as I say, I'd been highly scornful of it to start with. So it must have been a very "innocent" response on my part. Unless it was a function of unstressing, but I wasn't noticeably unstressing otherwise, and it was so specific to this particular situation. I hadn't felt it with my boyfriend, but we were extremely close and very attuned to each other. Bottom line, I've never again objected to the separation of men and women on courses or in group program. Whatever other sexism there is in the movement, I don't think this has anything to do with it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
