tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post1108936034259230236..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: How a truly feminist movement could lead the wayNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-20696303752205987072013-04-05T21:09:49.094-05:002013-04-05T21:09:49.094-05:00You know, Walker's reference is important, bec...You know, Walker's reference is important, because in traditional, indigenous societies the fundamental virtues are balance and inclusion. You don't throw waste people in a society like that, you adapt your social structure to facilitate their best contribution to the group. That means that, contrary to the myth of modern society (mass culture, politics, etc.) as "individualistic," traditional societies function because the individual fulfils herself or himself through participation in the group.<br /><br />The problem is that I don't see how we get to that type of society while keeping the scale of society we have now. We have to figure out ways to relocalize things on all scales.Billhttp://freeandeasywandering.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-86267972733356583212011-07-30T16:47:51.607-05:002011-07-30T16:47:51.607-05:00we're at that place. the place of no comprom...we're at that place. the place of no compromise. this is what it looks like, feels like, right before a disaster of our own making... that we've made following the model of the patriarch.<br /><br />that some men can not see is distressing. but it is what it is. <br /><br />i know we're better than this. we're capable of more.kjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16154394293561811531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-45572963553968687692011-07-30T16:43:18.992-05:002011-07-30T16:43:18.992-05:00i come from a long line of thinking women. my gra...i come from a long line of thinking women. my grandmother was a reporter (this was back in the first decade of the 1900s) before she bore 11 children. i am the least educated woman in my extended family. <br /><br />Marion Woodman, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jean Shinola Bolen, Anne Schaff, Elaine Pagels and a entire host of women authors and poets have educated me to ways that are 'other' than patriarchy or matriarchy. <br /><br />i'm still working on it. ;-)kjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16154394293561811531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-1962299506754363872011-07-30T09:41:44.840-05:002011-07-30T09:41:44.840-05:00I had no sooner finished writing this when I read ...I had no sooner finished writing this when I read something that makes this point in a pretty specific and clear way.<br /><br />Its predicated on the idea that our founding fathers (yes, they were all men) recognized the importance of partnership and built it into our constitution with the "balance of powers" that requires partnership and compromise. <br /><br />Yesterday Ezra Klein wrote about how differently Pelosi and Boehner have approached their job as Speaker of the House. The former knows a thing or two about the need for compromise and the later doesn't have a clue. I think the gender difference is interesting - but certainly not determinative. <br /><br />"When Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House, her job was conditioning her members for disappointment. It was Pelosi who had to bring them around to a Senate-designed health-care law that lacked a public option, a cap-and-trade bill that gave away most of its permits, a stimulus that did too little, a bank bailout that endangered their careers. Pelosi had to do that because, well, that’s what the speaker of the House has to do. To govern is to compromise. And when you’re in charge, you have to govern.<br /><br />Lately, Boehner has not been governing. After he failed to pass a conservative resolution to the debt crisis without Democratic votes, he should have begun cutting the deals and making the concessions necessary to gain Democratic votes. That, after all, is what he will ultimately have to do. It’s what all this is supposed to be leading up to.<br /><br />But Boehner went in the opposite direction. He made his bill more conservative. He indulged his members in the fantasy that they wouldn’t have to make compromises. It’s as if Pelosi, facing criticism for dropping the public option, had tried to shore up her support by bringing a single-payer health-care bill to the floor. Even if that would have pleased her left wing, what good would it have done her? Her job was to prepare her members to take a vote that could lead to a successful outcome."<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/tonights-vote-made-boehners-job-harder-not-easier/2011/07/11/gIQAEVd3hI_blog.htmlNancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.com