I wonder if I should ask who Gerhard Schroder is?
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Belin is in my opinion exactly right just about everything
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[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Now THERE'S something I don't hear every day!!
...All right, as I overcome my shock...Does that include the part where I say Aragorn included "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" in Appendix A for the very purpose of reducing the feeling that Arwen is a prize? Just making sure I'm understood.
But while I'm here... Lush, your point about respect for female sex-appeal is an interesting one. On some level, it troubles me.. I think this has to do with the shade of Mary Wollstonecraft sitting at my shoulder and reminding me that people need to be more than that to society. And then again, I don't really like the idea of power, influence, or quality of life being based on beauty (perhaps because I am not beautiful?). (Then again, you can often find me at my friend's house staring at Peja Stojakavic on the TV, so who am I to talk?)
And, incidentally...
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Have you ever met theese people who seem to be ready to give tokarev neckshots as well as all kinds of funny labels to anyone whose personal choises of life seem to "uphold the patriarcasy." For some feminists everyone CHOOSING the life as a professional homemaker is evil traitor to the sisterhood.
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That's not feminism. That's just revolutionism. The purpose of feminism is to empower women, not to force them into another kind of mandatory lifestyle. I haven't met them actually.. I tend to spend time with real feminists who sound a lot more like Lush. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] (then again, Maril just said that, didn't she?)
And, TolkienGurl (not to pick on you, lots of people have said similar things, and welcome by the way [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) all this about sexism implied by women not going out and killing lots of scary monsters is rather silly, actually. It implies that killing scary monsters is the only way to have value (perhaps we could dig some sexism out of that?!), which I hope is not the case in a semi-civilized society??
--Belin Ibaimendi