tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post4936928019346350167..comments2023-09-24T13:36:00.981+01:00Comments on The night and half-light of dreams: Who's really emasculating men here?Pragmatic Mystic http://www.blogger.com/profile/08877990361303745003noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-30108085340470373402008-08-20T11:42:00.000+01:002008-08-20T11:42:00.000+01:00I second Anonymous.I second Anonymous.CEADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04778999811353354648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-64887071169824568362008-08-18T21:07:00.000+01:002008-08-18T21:07:00.000+01:00I do not know how you should or would set about it...I do not know how you should or would set about it, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE try to get this piece of writing published. It makes so many worthwhile points that people really need to listen to and consider that appearing just on your blog means it may not necessarily reach enough people. The Daily Mail/Express columnists Jean Rook and Lynda Lee Potter would have said similar, I imagine, but in a less intelligent way. There is an audience for what you are saying, even in the Tory gutter press.<BR/>So please see if you can extend this piece of writing. It is too important for it not to be read by a greater audience.<BR/>PS On a lighter side, considering the bumper sticker ariel saw, did no-one ever tell Adam about loyalty?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-5125137999914030862008-08-18T19:54:00.000+01:002008-08-18T19:54:00.000+01:00There's a fabulous bumper sticker on one of the ca...There's a fabulous bumper sticker on one of the cars habitually parked on my block:<BR/><BR/>EVE WAS FRAMED.<BR/><BR/>I love it.<BR/><BR/>Ari.xxCEADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04778999811353354648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-14517412203681068032008-08-18T14:35:00.000+01:002008-08-18T14:35:00.000+01:00Hey girls!Ruth - spot on. I'm a big believer in tr...Hey girls!<BR/><BR/>Ruth - spot on. I'm a big believer in trusting in God and others, but keeping your gunpowder dry.<BR/><BR/>Ari - Thank you. Yes, I'm angrier at the women than at the men, b/c they're the ones giving men permission to treat them and all other women like crap. I mean, what the hell was Condoleeza Rice, a black woman, doing by working for George Bush, who'd have happily worn a white sheet 50 yrs ago? A traitor to her race and to her gender. And with little foreign policy savvy, to boot.<BR/><BR/>"THANK YOU. You know, I've always felt like the finger pointing at women - from Eve to feminists - is a distraction."<BR/><BR/>That's exactly the point I was making when I used Eve as an example. The Garden of Eden story is really just an excuse for ignorance - why shouldn't we know about good and evil? - and misogyny.<BR/><BR/>I couldn't possibly believe in a God who punishes its creation for choosing knowledge over ignorance. Essentially, it was created by men who didn't want their followers asking 'why' and created a 'divine' reason. Blind obedience is bullshit.<BR/><BR/>IxxPragmatic Mystic https://www.blogger.com/profile/08877990361303745003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-60736896522050980702008-08-18T13:39:00.000+01:002008-08-18T13:39:00.000+01:00The more I think about this, the more the whole Ga...The more I think about this, the more the whole Garden of Eden story seems like a perfect illustration of it. If you adopt a Catholic take on it, and strip all the metaphors away, you get a little dialogue like:<BR/><BR/>God: Adam, why did you do this?<BR/>Adam: She made me! She made me!<BR/>Eve: Yes, I listened to the evil in my soul...<BR/><BR/>Ari.xxCEADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04778999811353354648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-67971942914312809592008-08-16T14:18:00.000+01:002008-08-16T14:18:00.000+01:00Thank you, she'enedra, for a very eloquent antidot...Thank you, she'enedra, for a very eloquent antidote to all those anti-feminist diatribes. While, as you say, there are almost certainly other factors at play, I think you've hit on some pretty deep truths here.<BR/><BR/>Angry as I am at the patriarchy and at the men who insist on refusing to accept adult responsibility for their behaviour and controlling women, it's the women who support them who anger me most. Do you have any immediate thoughts on them?<BR/><BR/>Ari.xxCEADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04778999811353354648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689950.post-31258740551405400212008-08-15T17:27:00.000+01:002008-08-15T17:27:00.000+01:00Right with you there - by not making men accountab...Right with you there - by not making men accountable for their actions we are demeaning them as much as we demean women by saying they were asking for it.<BR/><BR/>Look after yourself and your friends if you are going out, please, but alcohol or no rape is rape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com