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Comment on For being effective, you are sentenced to… by Jennifer Kesler

Jennifer Kesler — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:00:19 +0000

Never mind acting basically like guys act - simply refusing to engage in the placatory feminine gestures and speech habits marks a woman down for the backlash.

Word. Even just looking serious and thoughtful instead of giddy invites complete strangers to advise a woman, “Smile! It’s not so bad!” as if to say her pretty little head shouldn’t be worried by those thought thingies that men have.

Comment on For being effective, you are sentenced to… by Liz

Liz — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:30:40 +0000

There’s the flip side too - the horrible awareness of all the placatory gestures other women are constantly using. Never mind acting basically like guys act - simply refusing to engage in the placatory feminine gestures and speech habits marks a woman down for the backlash.

Comment on For being effective, you are sentenced to… by Liz

Liz — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:28:32 +0000

This has also been my experience. Doing it is great; dealing with the aftermath is horrible.

Comment on The Baby Boomers: programmed for selfishness by Cecelia

Cecelia — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:47:56 +0000

Excellent post! I just stumbled across your blog via Uppity Brown Woman and its great!

I really like this post for numerous reasons but it validates how I see the selfishness in baby boomers. I am in agreement with the person who commented above that I hope your writing is heard by a larger audience.

Recently how I have seen and viewed baby boomers is that the life they currently live is a life of excess. They are the first generation to own and have as many material items and to to have more monetary wealth than generations prior. It was a part of many of the baby boomers American Dream to have a house, car, a second house and them some. Now with job loss and foreclosure they are learning some lessons that monetary wealth and material cultivation is not life. I am glad that you did not lump this group into one group so to speak as a group is made of individuals an you can’t generalize everything. I do know a plethora of baby boomers that hang out to valuing simplicity, land, family, friends and not monetary wealth or materialism.

Anyway, this post has me thinking more about this now…

Comment on The Baby Boomers: programmed for selfishness by Lili

Lili — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:38:52 +0000

I really enjoy your writing. I don’t agree with all (though I do agree with much of what you’ve written) you say, but you have a great style. I hope you continue and that a larger audience finds your material.

Comment on How you see life depends on how much money you’re seeing it with by dunvi

dunvi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:37:53 +0000

I was writing a lot of personal stuff in my attempts to comment, so I deleted the entire thing.

Basically, I very much understand and thank you dearly for your post. No one’s ever told me so simply why I felt three times poorer than my family actually is when I was at my old (tiny, private, all-girls, UES of Manhattan) school.

Comment on How you see life depends on how much money you’re seeing it with by Scarlett

Scarlett — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:15:26 +0000

I’m in Warsaw atm (sorry, did this to you last time, threw in my experience of a foreign country after you’ve made a very valid point about not being able to travel :8) and one of the things that has struck me is the resentment of a lot of Poles that since Poland has become part of the EU so many people have gone to the UK to work (they think I’m English which may explain the resentment) because even paying London prices, you can afford a better quality of life for working less hours in a similar job. We worked out roughly the ‘middle class’ salary is about $A7500. Annually.

The general gripe: they go to England because they don’t want to work 2 jobs. Um, why would you want to work 2 jobs if you can earn the same, or more, in one, and get to see another country in the bargain?

I have no idea where this mentality comes from. But I’m begining to appreciate now why there’s alledgedly a lot of resentment of Western tourists in Poland.

Comment on How you see life depends on how much money you’re seeing it with by Jennifer Kesler

Jennifer Kesler — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:33:36 +0000

Yes, but even Ghandi’s travels and education cost money. Had he been stuck working 18 hours a day just to survive and provide for a family dependent on him, he couldn’t have had the same impact.

Right now, my message here is reaching about 600 people a month. With more money, there’s a lot more I could do to get my ideas - and those of other bloggers with wonderful insights and suggestions - into the public arena where they would become viable options for societies to choose instead of niche programming for a niche audience. We could make movies that tackle these themes (or simply fail to pander to the usual stereotypes), run people for office, etc.

Comment on How you see life depends on how much money you’re seeing it with by Ted Stewart

Ted Stewart — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:24:36 +0000

Ghandi changed the world without either money or violence. What you really need to change the world are people. Ghandi spent his time out in the fields talking to people when his colleagues created an organization that spent a lot of time talking about how terribly the British were treating them and that ultimately made no difference whatsoever.

So your impact by writing this is much more significant, I think, than you give it credit for.

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