Better late than never! (To heck, you say!) :)
Yes, I would like more info on just *HOW* you got -free- email!?
Is this a part of the university's system?
Jackie
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 17 14:03:40 1996
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:09:36 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Woman on the Edge of Time & other stuff.
Being new to this list, I read the June threads to see what was
being discussed. I read Piercy's book last year & found it inspirational.
To paraphrase John Lennon, "Imagine all the people, living free of gender
concerns." I also enjoyed her book "Vida" about a re-surfacing
revolutionary from the sixties. My favorite writer is Doris Lessing.
"Memoirs of a Survivor" (1976) is great!
"Desperate to talk", I can relate to that! We live in a
traditional/conservative small town. None of the women I know are willing
to discuss anything deeper than which pillows look best with their new sofa.
I'm taking a graduate sociology class on family theory in which the
instructor maintains that the women's movement has resulted in women
"thinking like men" (aggressive, non-familial, job oriented). Say it isn't
so!! He thought he was paying women a big compliment I guess. I remarked
that I would consider that a step down the evolutionary ladder for women.
There goes my A in that class!
The ideas that are keeping me awake at night lately:
1. How do women balance the desire to live lightly on the Earth with the
desire to be productive human beings? (Sure, I can grow the wheat, grind
the flour & bake the bread, but what does that do for the people down the
street? I'm working on becoming a Nurse Practitioner & working in a
medically underserved area, but have had to relinquish some dearly held
values to do this--drive lots, spend lots, eat food out of vending machines,
etc.)
2. Why is it so easy to be sucked into the consume / debt / wageslave prison
that most of us live in and so difficult to avoid? Do you think it is an
issue of addiction? I'm thinking so. (Sure, I'll join the social
revolution. Can I still have my PC, my CD player, and my hairdryer?)
Voluntary simplicity is extremely important for women to practice, IMO, but
it renders us even more invisible in our status-oriented society.
3. Does anyone else feel a pervading sense of shame over the values and
actions of our society? Since childhood, I've looked at the way we have
built roads and buildings and powerlines over nearly every square foot of
the earth and it makes me sick.
4. What if they gave an election and nobody cared??? How long would the
gov't operate if we all just ignored it? If nobody watched TV? If we never
bought anything?
Is this posting way too long & chatty for this list?
Patty Lokken
Cyrus, Mn.
