tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post1929257221519553996..comments2024-01-29T06:02:39.583-08:00Comments on Suzanne's Bookshelf: No, woman is not our brotherSuzanne McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-76557250795541937402008-06-18T09:40:00.000-07:002008-06-18T09:40:00.000-07:00Well said, thank you.Your reference to "caste" sys...Well said, thank you.<BR/><BR/>Your reference to "caste" system put me in mind of a new (to me) theologian I have just encountered - Pandita Ramabai - I was not familiar with her, but she was an incredible pioneer:<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandita_RamabaiHeidi Reneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01769414906479026143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-30914621062052038972008-06-17T14:12:00.000-07:002008-06-17T14:12:00.000-07:00Hi Suzanne,If I understand Beauvoir correctly she ...Hi Suzanne,<BR/><BR/>If I understand Beauvoir correctly she argues for a recognition of the differences between men and women, but minus the male dominated hierarchy which religious traditions have imposed on them.<BR/><BR/>Author Charles Baxter celebrates this in his short story "Gryphon", with the static character Miss Ferenczi:<BR/><BR/>..."She talked for forty minutes straight. There seemed to be less connection between her ideas, but the ideas themselves were, as the dictionary would say, fabulous. She said she had heard of a huge jewel, in what she called the antipodes, that was so brilliant that when light shone into it at a certain angle it would blind whoever was looking at its center. She said the biggest diamond in the world was cursed and had killed everyone who owned it, and by a trick of fate it was called the Hope Diamond. Diamonds are magic, she said, and this is why women wear them on their fingers, as a sign of the magic of womanhood. Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall in love with men: they just love being loved..."<BR/><BR/>Baxter's short story is a celebration of differences. He takes great pains however, to show that they form no valid basis for an either/or ideology.Greg Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165026355782861827noreply@blogger.com