home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!do-not-reply-to-path
- From: ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward Chanley)
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150243.26769@news.ysu.edu>
- Sender: news@news.ysu.edu (Usenet News Admin)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu
- Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:02:43 GMT
- Lines: 34
-
-
- Wholehearted agreement. YOu mentioned Margaret Thatcher, who is an obvious case
- of a woman who adpoted "male" strategies to succeed in a male-dominated
- area.
-
- ----------
-
- That comment is central to my whole
- point: in a patriarchal society, you
- will undoubtedly find women operating
- within a patriarchal model in order to
- remain empowered. I question the auto-
- matic assumption, however, that in a
- culture operating from a matriarchal
- conciousness that women will need to
- adopt "male" behavior in order to
- accomplish anything.
-
- Daniel has repeatedly made the point
- that women are equally capable of the
- "power-over" abuses of which I accuse
- patriarchy; this isn't surprising,
- since these women are operating within
- a patriarchal structure of empowerment
- and thus feel the need to play by its
- rules. If we eliminate the patriarchy,
- we're not setting up a new "power-over"
- structure, we're CHANGING those rules
- alltogether.
-
- Blessed Be,
- Ward
-
- --
-