Awesome post Carol +1 I'm re-reading Jittberbug Perfume right now, in fact. (with a character inspired by Mr. Leary).
-Sarah On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmoor...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 8/6/2014 2:34 PM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmoor...@verizon.net> > <carolmoor...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Reading through a 2011 post by a woman who quit because she "didn't need the > grief" I was thinking about why guys keep editing despite it. And it > occurred to me men are taught to "take the pain", "pretend it doesn't hurt", > "man up". > > While I readily admit that that is the kind of bullshit masculinity I > was raised in, as a Wikipedian I persevere more in the "nil > desperandum" sentiment that has sustained so many of my fellow Quakers > and Wobblies to persist in the face of persecution and even murder. > You do the right thing, and keep doing the right thing as long as the > breath is in your body, because it is the right thing to do. > > Definitely a "higher consciousness" response. As I just wrote on Jimbo > Wales page in reaction to another women editor who detailed the same > experiences I've had editing in controversial areas (and put in a box on my > Carolmooredc user page called Changing Wikipedia's "Mad Dog" Culture: > > I totally agree with your experience, since I also edit controversial > topics. I was watching two male dogs on the each side of two neighbors' > fence the other day who spend at least an hour a day patrolling their side > and peeing on each others' pee. A visiting female dog came up to the fence > and started to pee and they both went nuts and scared her off. Here some > yell CUNT or other obscene words (in a perfectly innocent fashion, of > course) to scare off women. Luckily for them women choose not to reply with > words that would wither their kilts in a second. (Tempting as it might be.) > We seem to forget that humans have both an upper brain (the cerebrum) which > is relatively rational and a lower brain (the brainstem and cerebellum) > that deals with automatic and unconscious functions. I like to think that > humans can choose not to act like dogs automatically peeing all over > territory they think is theres and driving out any females. Of course, > that's more difficult in a culture that is riddled with patriarchal and > violent attitudes and entertainment, teaching young males and some females > to act like mad dogs. It would be nice if Wikipedia was a place that > totally transcends - yes for weeks at a time - the lower brain "mad dog" > modus operandi. (end) > ========== > This really is the meaning of "consciousness raising". Us oldsters from > the sixties and seventies were very much into transcending the big bad > lower brain. (Tim Leary being an arch advocate of it.) Now science acts as > if it's all one big brain with little male and female sections. See even > wikipedia's human brain article. > > The powers that be don't want us to know that we don't have to be violent > barely conscious autamotons willing to live, work, kill and die for them, > and other wise happy to get a meager paycheck, stuff our faces with junk > food and watch tv. > > The word "self-actualization" which was our mantra is now a joke word. > It's like we're living in a "hip" version of the 1950s all over again, but > with lots of rules and regulations to enforce political correctness and > give all power to the politicians so they can keep most of us - and > especially the young males - living barely above a lower brain level. > > Yes, we old hippies did know something :-) > > CM > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- Sarah Stierch ----- Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com
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