Feminism chat thread II

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Since it looks like the first chat thread is about to fill up, here's the next one all ready and waiting.

Think of it as the gated commune with babysitting on demand and gorgeous poolboys serving the drinks :o

Your thread is very depressing lifeissweet. I'm astounded at women who think it's okay to put up with that sort of bullying children into playing in a gendered way.

Well luckily, ladybiscuit, they do seem to be in the minority. I think what concerns me more is, that with one notably shouty and obnoxious exception, the people who are arguing with me seem to be mainly men.

lifeissweet - men protecting the gender bias? Surely not?

That's a good idea prolesworth re South Riding. We have 10 days still to finish Villette don't we? I am going to have to spend the day reading when my DS is at pre-school at this rate :o

Link? I mean I know we don't want to do the 'pile in' thing but I might just be passing...

I read Pure Lust first because it was the one on the shelf, but I think Dittany is probably right about the order.
Especially if you are / were Catholic these things are like a bomb going off in your head. In a good way.

Villette for free on Kindle

(you can download a Kindle app onto a PC/Mac/Ipod/Ipad too - you don't need a Kindle)

haha! thanks for the validation lovely ladies.

SQ, PMSL at your tactic with the doorsteppers

Dittany "Mary Daly would have been cackling in your handbag," PMSL at this.

Ah, SAF, that explains why you were so good on the "I am leaving Christianity" thread where there were loads of "hmmmm, it's not the church, you just need to think harder about seeing it another way" posters. That thread had me going ARGH!

Totally get that, SAF.
It?s one of the reasons why I feel sometimes so sad that I have no religion to pass onto my daughter. I couldn?t inflict Catholicism on her but I wish I had some other way to make her feel that no matter what the tide of popular opinion is, no matter what everyone else is doing, she is a precious soul who matters and who has free will to prize herself and her conscience and to stand up to anyone.

Capitalism just trashes people. Everyone is just human grist to the horrible mill and women more than anyone else. Religion sometimes seems like an authentic anti-capitalist voice to protect the precious, the human, the sacred; and it makes me so sad that it?s so fucked up in so many ways. I keep wishing it were different. But it?s not, and the wishing keeps me stuck in one place so I have to get over the nostalgia.

(I told my mum when I was 8 that I was going to be a nun because ?either I can get married and wash men?s socks and iron their shirts or I can be a nun, which is all reading and singing?. The vocation didn?t work out but I don?t do much ironing either.)

Dittany - a high risk strategy that could have amazing results for your career...

Can everyone stop posting on the board please until I've caught up

Elephants - I have people do that to me too. Almost as annoying as someone re-explaining your own experience to you. But where I am we have two doors in succession, and holding one open for me gives me a head start to the next door, which I then hold open for them smiling with an 'after you' Ha! Take that patriarchy!

ROFL alice

I'll bring it down one door at a time!