And the letters keep rolling in. Starting off with last month's Snarl:
I would just like to respond to the "Snarl of The Month" on the right to die. I'm
sorry, but if people keep on rationalizing the fates and deaths of other people
then the future of our nation and universe isn't very promising. It starts off as
people supposedly taking "pity" on the elderly and assuming that they would want
to die. Then they move on to the children, the downs babies, the deaf, the blind,
the mute children, they take for granted that these children touch so many lives
everyday in so many different ways, but nobody bothers to look at it from that
point of view. People of this society want everything to be perfect and flawless.
Women have to look like they weigh 110lbs, their skin must be flawless along with
everything else. This is not reality, reality is kids going through hard times
with terminal diseases, blindness, and life long problems.
Everybody should have the right to die with dignity, on that I agree, but I'm not
sure if I agree that outsiders should have the ability to decide when enough is enough. I dunno
if I'd want J. Lowe on the other side of the plug if I was in the hospital!
I disagreed with the Snarl of the month, but it was a good
article to publish. I like your zine!
And they're still talking about Chastity Grrl from issue #1:
I too found Chastity Girl's message annoying, but more annoying are the
people who are attacking her. Please, let's remember that 'divide and
conquer' isn't our style.
Besides, Chastity Girl is going to need love from her sisters when she
realizes that depriving men of sex doesn't turn them into human beings,
only into men who aren't getting any. If they're human to start with,
you don't need to play games; if they aren't, this isn't going to cure
them. Chastity Girl will find out soon enough that denying sex to men
doesn't make them look at you like an equal; lords and ladies, haven't
we had several tens of thousands of years' experience in this?
Let's remember that she's *very* young. And she's also brave and
articulate and hopeful. We need all those things. Even if she thinks
we've made the world into the mess it's in, she's *thinking*. She's out
there trying. She has hope that she can make things better.
I love Chastity Girl; she's my little sister; she's the future.
Let me just tell you how cool this is. We all need to
GRROWL a little more just to let society know it's not
getting away with anything!! Let me hear some more of
that roar!!
I took a look at your first issue a few weeks back and didn't have an opportunity
to reply. I thought I'd come back for more. There are many things I like about
your pages. For one, the graphics are straightforward, with a friendliness built
into the lines--I mean, the graphics are not the BIG JUMP IN YOUR FACE,
ultra-linear, geometric obscurities that so many pages are centered on. Your
graphics let the reader know straight away that he or she is welcome, that there
is content inside (as opposed to the make-believe content of the BJIYF sites).
My own rather unscientific conclusions about who is using the net (and who will
be using it in the future)suggest that women will be the future users. It seems
an ideal forum to explore the whole notion of cultural baggage, class, gender,
etc. We really do have, I believe, and opportunity to recreate if you will a new
world.
I liked the "Feminist Mother at Home" article. I wish you would put
more like it!
I don't know how Amy Zidell made a subject like pregnancy tests funny... but she did!
GREAT magazine. Best online magazine I have ever seen. Very clean. Very
professional. I want to submit, so I'll be back!
I looked through the July Growl and really like it. The morning initiation piece
was frightening because I've recently gotten into such a makeup-y ritual myself.
The layout is very aesthetically pleasing too.
love yr mag, hate the graphics that take so long to manifest, i know it's my
dinosaur machine but impatience has long been my short suit (is that an
oxymoron?) and i go about nuts waiting for the fancy type and pictures to come
through when i jump from issue to issue and story to story.
I was talking to a friend of mine who also displays a
predisposition towards writing to get/let things out, and
I mentioned to him that I wish I could find somewhere to
more or less share what I've experienced, and reach more
people that just word-of-mouth. Not that I'm trying to
broadcast myself, just that I get scenes... still-lifes...
and see such beauty in the mundane and everyday, and I know
most people overlook this... I want to share what I see
with others. Many thanks, and keep up the excellent work!
You guys kick! I hope everyone unleashes their feminine wrath here!!
Your mag is really cool! Please keep me posted on news. Love ya!
I love your 'zine. My hubby thinks it's great I have a place I can be a part of
that is just for us grrls! Keep it up, and thanks for being there...
More responses to earlier issues of Grrowl!:
why do you all think that Miss America is so bad. Those women have a choice to
compete and if they want to they should be able to. You can just simply keep to
yourselves.
I love the Ode To My Nose. Keep writing Anonymous...I enjoyed reading your
writing :)
I love this 'zine! I've just read all of issue two and "Ode to My Nose" from
issue one, and before I read anymore, I just want to thank you for putting out
such a great e-zine. You are all very talented!
your e- zine is so effortlessly cool, it actually gives me hope
that there are other intelligent human beings out there!" I am a Woman"
made me inexplicably sad, but i loved it to pieces!