For the record, I'm with the folks who question the quoting. After all,
look at the three statements.
"I am absolutely not a feminist."
"I prefer the company of men to women, always have. "
"And I'm constantly lumped in with women with whom I don't belong."
To me these read like very separate thoughts (not like the writer is
obligated to use ellipses between the statements). I don't feel
comfortable concluding that Joni related the second statement to the
first or the third to the second. Who knows what she may have said in
between? I haven't read much on Joni and feminism, but I wouldn't
conclude that I understand the reasoning for her position (the first
statement) based on the two that follow it.
Now for a bit of levity...
Robert Holliston wrote:
>
> Chrissie Hynde has been a highly vocal admirer,
This is from an interview conducted by and between Chrissie Hynde (CH)
and k.d. lang (kdl).
CH: What about it? Are you a feminist?
kdl: Yes.
CH: You are? As of when?
kdl: Always.
CH: I never thought I was a feminist...
kdl: Oh, you're such a fucking feminist.
CH: No.
kdl: You're kidding yourself!
CH: I'm not kidding myself - a feminist once told me I wasn't; but, by
definition, I suppose I am. I've never denied or confirmed these
allegations.
kdl: [laughing] I'm not afraid to say I'm a feminist.
CH: OK, I don't care if I say I'm a feminist or not. I'm going to get on
stage and play my guitar, and no fucker's going to stop me. So, whether
you want to call it feminism or not, I will continue to do my thing.
Being in a rock band was not a social statement in terms of male or
female; it was a social statement in terms of "leave me the fuck alone."
kdl: Well, I don't know what the political definition of feminism is,
but to your audiences you were extremely feminist. To have a strong
frontwoman who actually played the guitar and didn't take any shit from
anyone - that's totally feminist to me.
CH: OK, but that came naturally to me. I don't have to smoke a pipe and
wear elbow patches to do that.
kdl: But you'd look good doing it.
Here's the link for anyone interested in reading the rest of it:
http://home.macau.ctm.net/~tina71/articles/q.htm
Brenda
n.p. (or should I say replaying in my head) - This morning's sight of a
tremendous blue heron, only a few feet away, swooping up from the tiny
pond in the middle of my friend's cement fortress condo complex (in
Culver City) with a sizable koi in its beak. It gracefully flew to the
top of one of the buildings, swallowed the ten pound (or more) Kohaku on
the spot, rested for a minute and flew away, headed back to what's left
of the Ballona Wetlands, I suppose.
The bird - http://bio.lmu.edu/ballona/animals/ballbird.htm
The Wetlands - http://www.ballona-wetlands.org/pages/factsa.html
