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

To: nihil who wrote (31775)	2/27/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 108807

Deah nihil, you sweet thing, (that's my Virginia accent coming through) Of course I am still a Southern Belle-no one escapes that upbringing. Most of what I write is tongue-in -cheek, as I suspect Jim's writing is also, though his is SLIGHTLY more acerbic. I never take him too seriously. And oh, my dear, yes, I am through menopause- and I guess I didn't make it clear that I am definitely celebrating freedom from the monthly tyranny, but more than that from that whole concept of myself as fertility goddess. Now I'm into being the village wise woman. (TOngue-in-cheek again, please)I think middle age ( again for MY generation and upbringing, not necessarily for any others) brings the realization that we have the right to be pleased as well as please. I think men in general are very out of touch with what women feel and think and it is easier now to tell them so. One of the reasons I have loved SI is because somehow those barriers are more easily breached; there is a lot of honesty going on here in many different forms and I have found men who aren't afraid of crossing the divide. I was not rejecting the physical in my life, except as some primary motivating force and essential need. In some ways, I am more in touch with myself as a physical being than ever before. I think it's very hard on young girls who have been raised to rely on their appearance, rather than their minds, to achieve their goals. I'm often glad I didn't have a daughter. Simone deBeauvoir talked about the drama of flesh and spirit between men and women, the need they have for one another. To free woman from the trappings of the expectations, the still dependent nature, is not to kill the miracle of what happens between us, but to enhance it.