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I mean really ... is it the feminist thing? Is feminism so far out of fashion that people have to turn their noses up at any tiny bit of feminist rhetoric? Why exactly does everyone hate the feminist movement? Have we all forgotten what feminism has done for us? Or is it that we just don't care anymore? What is it about wanting to be treated like a worthwhile human being that is so very distasteful?
Equality with men is something that is a difficult goal to define. For too many people equality = the same, and we are not the same as men. Sorting things out takes time, and it isn't an easy process ... but back to the subject of my rant ...
So far as I can see if your path focuses more on the feminine, why not use thealogy? Why not explore the more feminine side of life ... what exactly is wrong with focusing on women and coming to grips with being in a female skin?
It isn't something that our society helps us with ... do the commercials that deal with 'freshness' and 'activities' give any thought at all to the emotional roller-coaster that your period puts you on? Do they even mention the word 'period'? Western society wants everyone to be nice, normal, rational folks all the time ... don't feel rational? Well, that is ok, sweetie, we have these pills that will balance your hormones and ease your cramps so you don't irritate anyone.
I grew up thinking that there was something inherently wrong with being a girl (thanks, dad). Not consciously, but underneath everything, there was something wrong with me that had to be fought tooth and nail everyday (emotions, hormones, intuition, etc). Even today when someone wants to put someone else down ... they tell them that they are being 'girly'. And when a woman wants to embrace being 'girly' then you become a femnazi ...or a bitch ... or a man-hating dyke.
I read constantly about the feminine aspects of the moon, the earth, the ocean ... the Goddess is everywhere ... in everything. So why then are we putting people down who describe their spirituality in those terms?
I am not saying that there aren't twits out there ... or that some of the other words that they have come up have any place in the language (I don't think that 'history' is a discriminatory term), but I think that thealogy has value ... it shouldn't be discarded just because we don't like some of the people who use it. The fluffies want the term 'Wicca' for their own ends, but I don't see anyone giving up that fight so easily.
--Phae
Equality with men is something that is a difficult goal to define. For too many people equality = the same, and we are not the same as men. Sorting things out takes time, and it isn't an easy process ... but back to the subject of my rant ...
So far as I can see if your path focuses more on the feminine, why not use thealogy? Why not explore the more feminine side of life ... what exactly is wrong with focusing on women and coming to grips with being in a female skin?
It isn't something that our society helps us with ... do the commercials that deal with 'freshness' and 'activities' give any thought at all to the emotional roller-coaster that your period puts you on? Do they even mention the word 'period'? Western society wants everyone to be nice, normal, rational folks all the time ... don't feel rational? Well, that is ok, sweetie, we have these pills that will balance your hormones and ease your cramps so you don't irritate anyone.
I grew up thinking that there was something inherently wrong with being a girl (thanks, dad). Not consciously, but underneath everything, there was something wrong with me that had to be fought tooth and nail everyday (emotions, hormones, intuition, etc). Even today when someone wants to put someone else down ... they tell them that they are being 'girly'. And when a woman wants to embrace being 'girly' then you become a femnazi ...or a bitch ... or a man-hating dyke.
I read constantly about the feminine aspects of the moon, the earth, the ocean ... the Goddess is everywhere ... in everything. So why then are we putting people down who describe their spirituality in those terms?
I am not saying that there aren't twits out there ... or that some of the other words that they have come up have any place in the language (I don't think that 'history' is a discriminatory term), but I think that thealogy has value ... it shouldn't be discarded just because we don't like some of the people who use it. The fluffies want the term 'Wicca' for their own ends, but I don't see anyone giving up that fight so easily.
--Phae
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Date: 2005-07-21 04:13 am (UTC)--Phae
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Date: 2005-07-21 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-21 04:23 am (UTC)--Phae