Blessings to all , may The Great Mother Goddess of endless names and forms activate and manifest Her holy Shakti I AM presence in us and outside us , may the gregorian new year 2006 mark Her glorious return !!! thank you for .... being ! best wishes , a starseed lightworker & Goddess devotee
Jai Maa
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Somaadi
India
  • I'm relatively new to tribe.net so you'll have to forgive my clumsiness if I'm not sure how this works. But if we post here to discuss and learn from each other then...

    This is the second time I've heard someone mention a feminist revolution in the past few weeks and it makes me curious. What does that mean? In the sense that, are we seeking a community of equality wherein people are judged according to their character or are we limiting ourselves to our "gender" - women are better than men or vice versa? In Riane Eisler's book "The Chalice and the Blade", she compares issues between matriarchy and patriarchy and speaks of a concept that, when applied by either social system, is dysfunctional. The concept being domination; that there must be a subordinate. Where does this construct come from, and why have we come to intepret it as "normal?" With all the books I've read about oppression (racial, age, gender, sexual orientation), it is self-evident to me that any social structure based upon and promoting advantage of one over another is not social progress; merely trading one evil for another. While I do understand the concept of balance, I wonder if it is time to move beyond the push-me-pull-you of peripheral issues (race, gender, etc.) and focus on holistic balance for everyone.

    • We must each reclaim our personal power as women before we can do any more than struggle individually against the current social attitudes, which are NOT anywhere close to equality. This is not about one gender being "better", or a struggle between the two, it is about taking our own power in hand so that we can be viewed as equal and leave no room for doubt. If we accept the current paradigm that women are nothing more than pathetic shadows of men, how can we expect respect? We are allowing gender bias to remain so persistent that women have to individually fight like rabid dogs to prove ourselves as people because we are starting out at a social disadvantage.

      Example: During the Vietnam war alone, almost as many women in America were murdered by their male partners as the number of soldiers who were killed over there. Where is our "wall"? Think and feel for a moment, what it would be like to stand and read those names... imagine run your fingers over the engraving; this young mother, this beloved daughter, this big sister who cooked for three siblings because mom had to work...and look over the ever-growing wall with so many thousands of other names, slaughtered with no outcry, because our society doesn't consider them worthy of notice. Yet let one of them fight back and kill her abusive husband, and it is all over the news. Equality is not about phony civil rights, it is an all-pervasive attitude being acted out - or not.

      I have no desire to me a male-wannabe, which is the sad agenda that many feminist movements have pushed in the past. Why lower myself to be a fake man when I am a real woman? {{Another example: Hey, guys - Want to see a battle to the death? Just tell me I can't/shouldn't breastfeed in public. Try it, if you want to be left bleeding on the sidewalk. Betcha won't do it again, to me or any other woman. Why waste my effort trying to educate morons (male or female!) like you, when what really needs to change is your concept that you have the right to dominate me at all and try to take away my precious mother-power? I'll change your warped paradigm, real quick and permanently.}}

      Genuine reform will only come when we all stand powerful and free in our own space, which means embracing our whole selves and not apologizing for being women, and groveling for no one. We are all (both genders) awesome people, and if more women only knew that...then men would finally see it, too. That would be the revolution.

      Much love,
      Grandma

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