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Glad you enjoyed menses tent, though. You should feel empowered from time to time, even if it requires you to suspend judgment and disbelief (which you did well). And no, that's not a throw-away comment because I bashed you in the previous paragraph. I like what you wrote, just not the bit setting up a tired dichotomy between Women and Men.
Love and Blessings,
India
: )
PS - this totally makes up for the mean-spirited, booby-shrinking Hooters-bashing article you wrote last year. You are forgiven. Go forth and sin no more.
http://www.mothersky.com/2008/07/the-car…
Really?
"My dad worked all day. My mom worked all day, then came home and made dinner."
Yep, no implication there. Sorry I brought it up.
I am 66 and we didn't have any red tents but I can imagine them due to your spot on article.
Will there be more of this? Are there any future Red Tent gatherings planned, preferably further north?
"And even though I would never phrase it like this, I agree that women don't always get a chance to "fill our own vessels." My dad worked all day. My mom worked all day, then came home and made dinner. Women do a lot. Women are neat."
So you're saying that you read that, and all you see is the author relaying a dry, factual story, that has no broader implication? The dry, factual phrases "My Dad worked all day. My worked all day, then came home and made dinner." is just this isolated piece of text, not intended to highlight any kind of distinction, and with no bearing on the very next sentence "Women do a lot?" Please.
And no, I don't for a second believe that gender equality magically appeared sometime in 198x. There are still huge gaps, and those gaps must be closed. But those gaps are uneven. Women in some communities in this country might as well still be living in 1947 (some in 1447), while others enjoy equality, support, mutuality, and respect from their male counterparts, particularly their partners. To the point where generalizing across the whole spectrum of maleness is the lazy way out.
But there isn't a woman alive right now who hasn't had some sort of relationship with a man who "doesn't see dirt," who doesn't understand that the food doesn't just magically materialize in the fridge, who leaves a trail of detritus behind him wherever he goes in your house. He might be her father, her partner, her roommate's boyfriend, or her brother. We have all - every last one of us - cleaned up after them. And almost all of them think they're somehow more evolved than "those guys," and deeply offended by the implication that they make women responsible for the clean-up by their own willful incompetence.
Yeah, nullbull, you're different, and good on you. But don't interject yourself into our daily experience and our daily frustration. No vagina? Then you don't get it. Period.
Wow, you just plain hate men don't you? And you're also full of shit. Studies show that men do more than their fair share of work when paid and unpaid labor is added up. But apparently your own sense of female entitlement lets you believe that men still aren't doing enough.
And, for your information, there isn't a man alive who hasn't had some sort of relationship with a woman whose narcissism led her to believe that she deserved to be coddled, pampered, and obeyed and that men are responsible for her security and well being while she provides nothing in return besides constant bitching and whining.
You last sentence would be better written as, "Vagina? Then you don't get it. Period."
Nullbull sure read a lot into "My dad worked all day. My mom worked all day, then came home and made dinner." Who knew Lindy's talent with the pen could summarize the ageless battle between the sexes is so few words? Geez- lighten up!
Great article, Lindy!
Sometimes I wonder what I'm missing out on, when I stay away from spiritual goings on that make me cringe.
One thing that does help, is to have an open minded, but for the most part cynical person hold my hand and take me somewhere I don't normally go.
Nice work!
2.) The Red Tent Temple sounds as ridiculous as any other religious beliefs. But at least it seems pretty harmless. If it makes them feel better about themselves, more power to them.
If there is an afterlife, I think a Red Tent Temple is where I'm going to be forced to spend eternity (probably with my mouth sewn shut), as punishment for the wrongs I've committed.
http://newoldtraditions.com/2010/01/05/t…
Thing is, I think, for decorum's sake, and the sake of not looking like some weak woman who can't do stuff, a lot of us unconsciously try and hold it in, and it may very well cause a great deal of pain. It's so damned hush-hush, it may cause stress which in turn causes pain. The frank way she writes about this made total intuitive sense to me--I really don't cotton to homeopathy (total nothing in pill form), but the concepts are good. And I'm fucking repressed.
"Speaking as a hard-working, spiritually advanced, equality friendly, evolved male, NULLBULL, SHUT THE F*CK UP!!! Geez, you just keep making it worse. Lindy's comment was NOT ABOUT YOU. It was NOT ABOUT MEN. The whole article was about women. Kee-rist, man! Let it go for all of our sakes."
Nullbull only made things worse for spineless dorks like you who think that the reason they can't get laid is because other men do things that make feminists angry. You are not evolved or spiritually advanced. You're a lapdog.
The sentence that nullbull quoted was about men; it was about how men work less than women. Lindy is just to much of a pussy to own up to her words.
Not so. I can't say I have ever had that relationship.
I do appreciate the sentiment expressed about chocolate, but it's kind of like hearing someone wax rhapsodic about the amazingness of beer and say all kinds of stuff you totally agree with, and then you notice that they're drinking a Bud Light.
Trolls: please go find another internet, one where being a dick makes you money or something. I'm genuinely starting to worry about what you consider a reasonable use of your time. I just want to help here.
Your baby is ugly
Lindy, good work as usual. You and your womb are great.
I guess Lindy just found her peeps. Ewww.
Huh? What's your point?