Comments on: A Question for the Women http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/ Sun, 20 May 2012 09:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dvotchka http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-25927 dvotchka Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:49:28 +0000 http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=1249#comment-25927 I reckon so too, now you put it like that... I reckon so too, now you put it like that…

]]> By: Shastan http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-25904 Shastan Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:41:00 +0000 http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=1249#comment-25904 *grin* SO been there! I tried to learn, and found some helpful things. Those nesting hormones bit me hard, but helped with the learning, somehow. They taught me how to plan the nesting slowly through my then meagre budget. I am now a bit more "together" in my own sense of dressing/decor than before. Mostly tho', I learned that all that fussy-poo froth is a distraction from how empty they are inside. Sad, really. There's a fun company that sells mismatched sox, yano! *grin*
SO been there! I tried to learn, and found some helpful things. Those nesting hormones bit me hard, but helped with the learning, somehow. They taught me how to plan the nesting slowly through my then meagre budget. I am now a bit more “together” in my own sense of dressing/decor than before. Mostly tho’, I learned that all that fussy-poo froth is a distraction from how empty they are inside. Sad, really.
There’s a fun company that sells mismatched sox, yano!

]]> By: Gwas Myrddyn http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-25881 Gwas Myrddyn Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:50:59 +0000 http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=1249#comment-25881 Dvotchka, I think you're being fourteenist, there. Te stones are old enough to decide for themselves, I say. ;-) Gwas. Dvotchka,

I think you’re being fourteenist, there. Te stones are old enough to decide for themselves, I say. ;-)

Gwas.

]]> By: dvotchka http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-25764 dvotchka Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:18:02 +0000 http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=1249#comment-25764 PS. 14 is one too much for a stone circle PS. 14 is one too much for a stone circle

]]> By: dvotchka http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-25763 dvotchka Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:15:58 +0000 http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=1249#comment-25763 Your piece made me laugh out loud - it is beautiful! I'm a 45 yr old british HW living on the English Welsh border, fucking living it, as you say. Although I'm positively ancient by your standards (of course you're young at heart at 30, because you're still young xx) I can totally relate to the tomboy dilemma - except that it isn't a dilemma, its a gift. Don't beat yourself up over other peoples projections. There are enough like us for us to know that we're not isolated, despite the view from the window.Gender expectations are jurrasic in the worst sense, where as being liminal in terms of stereotypical female 9or male)identities is ancient, timeless and desirable when seen as part of a wholistic community of peoples. Just don't read Mrs.B, whoever the hell she is! Dvotchka xx Your piece made me laugh out loud – it is beautiful! I’m a 45 yr old british HW living on the English Welsh border, fucking living it, as you say. Although I’m positively ancient by your standards (of course you’re young at heart at 30, because you’re still young xx) I can totally relate to the tomboy dilemma – except that it isn’t a dilemma, its a gift.

Don’t beat yourself up over other peoples projections. There are enough like us for us to know that we’re not isolated, despite the view from the window.Gender expectations are jurrasic in the worst sense, where as being liminal in terms of stereotypical female 9or male)identities is ancient, timeless and desirable when seen as part of a wholistic community of peoples.

Just don’t read Mrs.B, whoever the hell she is!
Dvotchka xx

]]> By: Gwas Myrddyn http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2009/11/a-question-for-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-25416 Gwas Myrddyn Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:19:30 +0000 http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=1249#comment-25416 It works the other way around too, you know? I don't know anything about cars other than how to drive them, I hold a screwdriver like I've never seen one before, and I know nothing about re-tuning the television to pick up the new channels. But I decided that I have more interesting things to be thinking about like whether that tree will talk to me, how beautiful a lake looks today with the sunlight dancing on it, how many stones in a stone circle is too many? Why would I want to know about football, mechanics or home improvement? Let all the other men do that! It works the other way around too, you know? I don’t know anything about cars other than how to drive them, I hold a screwdriver like I’ve never seen one before, and I know nothing about re-tuning the television to pick up the new channels.

But I decided that I have more interesting things to be thinking about like whether that tree will talk to me, how beautiful a lake looks today with the sunlight dancing on it, how many stones in a stone circle is too many?

Why would I want to know about football, mechanics or home improvement? Let all the other men do that!

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