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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (22888)	6/13/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The heat index is 115 degrees and we've been out in the sun watching baseball games, so I'm for sure swooning. We're getting ready to go to an Irish pub for dinner with friends. As long as it has air conditioning, I don't care where we go. I have no problems with anything you said about the factions within the Southern Baptist denomination. It was the implication that Southern women in general were somehow contributing to the problems by their legitimizing submissive behavior that bothered me because it tends to ignore cultural differences. We're so sensitive to- say-the cultural differences between the East and the West, the Blacks, the Hispanics, and we forget that even between our own North and South there are many different modes of behavior, none of which are inherently WRONG. You were very clear in this last post that it's a religious belief you're focusing on, not a geographical generalization. But I do think that there is a tendency to stereotype--as in Jim's and my exchange last night--Southern women. And that's what I was reacting to. And I did clump yours and Ann's posts together. As for the submission of blacks and Latinos, I wonder where and when you were in Texas and for how long! This sure doesn't sound like the Texas I live in! I think there is a tendency at times to read newspaper articles, etc. and make sweeping statements and generalizations about other areas of the country or other groups (religious, political---and in the same way people do this about the drugs and gays and far-out life styles in San Francisco) when the majority of people in most places are just pretty "Normal". And now I'm off.... Have you tried mint juleps? Gotta boil down your simple syrup first---otherwise, it's not a real julep, though. I can get a swoon out of you with my juleps.