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re: momma

E Geist said:

agreed... i think male differentiation or
"individuation" is far less reliant (generally
speaking) on family infrastructure than it is so for
females - and i would say that that's true at almost
any age.  a great part is surely societal, but i've
always wondered if it's simply the nature of the
personality of each gender in general.

-->that's where i'm at: in the middle of many
possibilities, but i'll take more the nurture side
than the nature side of it at this point.  if we had
men at home raising children, i think the outcome
would be very different.

i jammered on about secondhand bildungsroman stuff
with regard to women writers and peter plunged deep
into the ocean :)  so i'll try this one again...

see, when a man writes a definitive work, it's after
he's discovered himself as an individual (at least
that he is one).  he's discovering the world in his
work and then a lot more of himself.  women, on the
other hand, are just getting to the part about
separating themselves to be an individual.  they are
stuck back discovering _themselves_ (and not the great
beyond) in their coming of age novels.  it's quite a
different read.

sorry to be so unclear :-(

envision whirled peas,
j. marie


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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. -Flannery O'Connor

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