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Re: the (fe)male hand (was Re: momma)



[re: linear vs. circular narrative]
--- E Geist <i_scoobysnak at yahoo_com> wrote:
> julia alvarez said the same thing about circularity
> in
> female novelists when i saw her about 10 years ago.

that's my girl :)
 
> i
> don't get it, it's always seemed the opposite to me
> but that maybe i've read mostly white european women
> wrietrs?

maybe...but here's where i fail you: i haven't read
enough of _them_ to make a proper comparison :).

> add nature/nurture to the binary
> opposites/dichotomy,
> eh? 

very nice :)

> very nature-oriented clinician friend of mine from
> undergrad could not get beyond my statement that
> beyond higher-level ethical structure, there
> probably
> wasn't a hell of a lot of difference between my own
> personality/general patterns of individuation and
> those of ted kasczinsky.

about your friend's response: besides any legitimate
argument--it's scary as crap.  and crap can be mighty
scary :)  no, i digress...

while i do give nurture a whole lot of my listening
time, so far i don't conclude that it carries most of
the responsibility.  i still believe in some
instrinsic personality.  and in some ways, i'm an
essentialist with regard to gender...but i say that
_very_ carefully.

> wow, that makes me feel like a dead white euro male
> once again :)

see, ya fit right in :)

i'm outtie,
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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