tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post5618240564432960703..comments2024-01-29T06:02:39.583-08:00Comments on Suzanne's Bookshelf: Venus and Mars - Love and RespectSuzanne McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-85436720701699282812010-10-20T19:57:23.015-07:002010-10-20T19:57:23.015-07:00He is responsible for making things; she is respon...<i>He is responsible for making things; she is responsible for having harmony in what he does.</i><br /><br />If I still believed that at this age, I would shoot myself.Suzanne McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-52955197659097582202010-10-20T08:17:45.417-07:002010-10-20T08:17:45.417-07:00Yes, weird images you have - war and beauty? There...Yes, weird images you have - war and beauty? There is no sense in them. <br /><br />In Slavic Russia we have different images: a man is the Creator; a woman is the Love and Harmony. <br /><br />He is responsible for making things; she is responsible for having harmony in what he does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-51799084477734201172010-10-20T07:39:56.227-07:002010-10-20T07:39:56.227-07:00Carl,
That's why I used the term "hijack...Carl,<br /><br />That's why I used the term "hijack." I was really just trying to demonstrate the arbitrary nature of selecting the Greek gods as a model for male and female. <br /><br />But perhaps John Gray was not thinking beyond the planets when he used "Mars" and "Venus."Suzanne McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-53796231956986421352010-10-20T07:23:20.178-07:002010-10-20T07:23:20.178-07:00As an egal, I think a way to redeem the hierarchal...As an egal, I think a way to redeem the hierarchal teachings in L&R is to symmetricize them, make them apply to both spouses.<br /><br />That is, one can accept the good aspects of the L&R teaching and change the bad aspects to good.Donald Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904992652259586383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-38337596068170639172010-10-20T04:57:09.216-07:002010-10-20T04:57:09.216-07:00"Role Of Gender Differences: [for Gottman, i..."Role Of Gender Differences: [for Gottman, it's the] Mark of an ailing relationship. [for Grey, it's the] Recipe for success in relationships."<br /><br />Tiresias, the blind prophet who first killed a female before being turned into one, might serve as a parable. Of course, he killed a male and was turned back. But the chief goddesses and gods argued forever over difference henceforth and forever. And Carol Ann Duffy now brings us lines "from Mrs Tiresias":<br /><br /><i>Then he started his period.<br /><br />One week in bed.<br /><br />Two doctors in.<br /><br />Three painkillers four times a day.</i><br /><br />Thanks for getting us thinking and for sharing your series on love and respect again!J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-12239326360859819362010-10-20T03:16:23.126-07:002010-10-20T03:16:23.126-07:00On the other hand, there's the story of his at...On the other hand, there's the story of his attempt to rape Athena, chasing her across the acropolis and ejaculating on the rocky ground from which was born Erichthonius. Much of the mythology of Hephaestus displays Greek aristocratic contempt for artisans coupled with keen appreciation of what they could produce.Carl W. Conradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00238663399363615395noreply@blogger.com