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grumble and rant
2003-03-07 @ 12:32 p.m.
verucaamish e-mailed me his response to an editorial on commondreams.org. and since i was looking for a way to procrastinate today, i started e-mailing him my responses to the editorial as i read it. so he has a load of messages from me right now. but he started it. ;) so here's my response to the editorial. this go read his.
ps... you might not give a shit about this or be interested. so if you're not, just don't read it, ok.
------ to: verucaamish from: dharmaqueen sent: Fri 3/7/03 12:06 PM the article begins with "Two great principles govern all interaction on earth: the male principle of competition and the female principle of cooperation." Has she never witnessed the complete opposite of female cooperation?!! give me a break. it's such essentialism... that women all cooperate and men always compete. In my family, for example, my brother and i are the complete opposite of what's ascribed to our gender--based on what the author might say. i'm the competitive agressive one and he is the more gentle cooperative one. Women were pushed into the role of cooperation--still a generalization, mind you--i think as a survival mechanism to deal with all the roles lumped onto them by a sexist world. Like in the movie The Hours, where Julianne Moore's character is seemingly the perfect 50's housewife. But underneath the surface she was going crazy from having to repress everything and keep on that smiley face and cooperative demeanor that her role required. Also, cooperative in the author's sense seems to be synonomous with completely passive. As if women are cooperative because they don't really have opinions, thoughts, ideas and standards to stand up, speak out and fight for. Being uncooperative is certainly "unladylike," but at this point in history we really need to be past that. ugh. --------- From: dharmaqueen To: verucaamish Sent: Fri 3/7/03 12:27 PM those of us who have dared to step outside the norms of gender and sexuality see the world in a different way. using the "men are from mars women are from venus" sort of lame and restrictive binary view on the world serves to further sexism and heterosexism. plus it's so hetero-normative too. see, i can whip out my theory language. now i have vision of packing theory. heh heh. ------ from: dharmaqueen to: verucaamish sent: Fri 3/7/03 12:15 PM "The feminine principles of cooperation, dialogue and diplomacy have been disregarded as ineffectual and powerless." (the author writes) to which i respond: that using "feminine principles" interchangibly with women's tendencies is so fucking innacurate it's not even funny. applying taoist principles of yin and yang to male-female interaction is completely narrow-minded too. "Embodied in the female experience is this notion of conscience. " the author writes. argggh! that's such a load of shit. women are not embedded with "conscience" any more or less than men. women can back-stab and fuck people over and to bad shit the same as any guy. and clearly, she's never hung out with lesbians. and men are not born conscience-less. methinks the writer is a narrow-minded idiot. AND, the piece is horribly written.
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