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- From: kumagic@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Stephen R. Figgins)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.232518.45003@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:25:18 CST
- References: <1992Nov19.150243.26769@news.ysu.edu> <1992Nov19.164342.1@fnalno.fnal.gov>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1992Nov19.164342.1@fnalno.fnal.gov>, holzman@fnalno.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman) writes:
-
- > If there is no power-over in place, why enshrine power-over in
- > the name of the system? "Archy" means "rule", as in coercion.
- >
- > If it is a set of values, not a gender, being valued over the
- > other, why enshrine either gender in the name of the system
- > and not derscribe the values?
- >
- > How about calling it Omnifocal?
-
- Riane Eisler suggested that it wasn't really Patriarchy and Matriarchy
- that we were talking about at all. She suggests that Androcracy
- better describes our dominant culture, a world governed by men. She
- also said that the word we used to describe ancient cultures, and the
- culture we should create now, matriarchy, did not accurately describe
- what we mean. She suggested using a term that would link men and
- women in partnership. She chose the begininning sylables of the words
- Gyno and Andro and linked them with an l. She suggests the word
- Gylanic better describes a culture of partnership.
-
- And Daniel (I got your name right this time!), I have to reblock
- everything when I quote your text. Your lines are just too damn long.
- Is there anyway you could reblock them? Your text is the only one I
- have had problems with so far. Maybe if you could lop things off at
- about 70 characters or so, my editor wouldn't choke on your posts.
-
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- kumagic@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | Who lived under the hill
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