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Comment on Shining Spirit: Leonie Allan by Reconnect With Your Inner Goddess. | 7Wins.eu

Reconnect With Your Inner Goddess. | 7Wins.eu — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:21 +0000

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Comment on Allergies, Hair Dyes, and Chemicals! Oh My! by Anti Aging Face Products

Anti Aging Face Products — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:10:41 +0000

If your hair begins to fall out really fast its probably something else causing it and not normal female pattern hair loss. Don’t just assume its baldness and then start taking Rogaine or something. Hair loss could be an indicator of more serious medical conditions. Something that could kill you if left untreated.

Comment on Grants and Resources for Women by Jeanett Naylor

Jeanett Naylor — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:03:24 +0000

Nice blogging. I’ve signed up. Grants are still not easy to find, no?

Comment on Death of a Feminist by Zora

Zora — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:04:26 +0000

I can really understand what you were thinking when you wrote the
article. I had exactly the same thoughts – when I was about 16 years
old… Fortunately I had the opportunity to learn a lot and study
biology and psychology and sociology and I had the freedom to get to
know my self, my female part and my male part and my bisexual orientation.
First of all I see, that your arguments are not really thought through,
because as Lauren has noticed, you really get contradictory at some point.
As for the differences between men and women (and the funny left-brained
argument) I have to say: Mens and Womens brains don’t look or work that
different, people were trying to find differences to explain the
different behavior, but besides a slight different in size, no other
differences could ever be proven (and there is no such thing as a
reasonable left and a creative right hemisphere… there are differences
between left and right, but most of all the brain works as a network and
complicated functions need parts everywhere in the brain)
I would never say, that there are no differences between men and women,
but I don’t know if there really is such a strong biological base for
these differences. Sure, you can argue for example: the more
testosterone – the more aggressive > but thats true also for women. And
men have more muscles and therefore can do some work better than women
(and also misuse this power to suppress women) and here are thousands
and thousands of years of history, where these small differences lead to
a complex social structure with exactly defined role models. (f.
example: men probably had to suppress their emphatic parts because they
had to kill animals for food (which is a work, that needs a lot of
muscles)… On the other hand it’s much more important for a woman to be
emphatic and to act with responsibility, because she has to raise the
children if the man disappears after you got pregnant…
(It’s really interesting to see which role models develop among animals
with different social systems of raising offspring)
One difference between men and women that seems the most obvious to me
is mental flexibility. But there are also thousands of evolutionary
important reasons that made this difference occur.
I agree with you when you say, that there are a lot of women who have
this special sense for nature and family and “gaia” – but I don’t think
that this sense is unique to women. After all i think feminism and later
emancipation also lead to the possibility and freedom for men to
discover these powers in themselves. It lead to a general melting of
radical constraints.
I know the feminists you’re talking about, the ones that make you feel
bad for doing some gardening. (Where I live we have some politic parties
which fight for the changing of the painted bicycle on the
bicycle-routes into a unisex bicycle (because now it’s a mens) well,
don’t they have more important things to think about?)
All in all, I think the things I’ve learned during the past 10 years
lead me to the following conclusion:
Yes, there are male and female traits, but most of them have a social
and not a biological base. Each and everyone of us has some male and
some female parts and we all have these traits in different proportions.
I know many women who love to work with computers, do the mathematical
stuff, never played with dolls, hate to cook but really love children.
On the other hand I know men that are really flexible, love to do
creative things like music, painting, even sewing and millinery.
And actually it’s this freedom that feminism and emancipation brought to
us: We now have the permission to find out which proportions of what we
have in us, and we can try to live our lives the way that makes us
happy. This is the same for men and women. The happiest couples I know
are these where both partners work part-time and both have a lot of time
to spend with children and hobbies and whatever. The challenge is to
find out what’s best for oneself and to manage to live a life where no
part has to be suppressed.
I don’t think that only the women were unhappy before the emancipation,
but men too had their restrictions.
I think it’s important to look at everything and everyone with a lot of
differentiation and not fight against or for the extremes. Everyone has
to learn these things for him- or herself and if we let ourselves
manipulate by extremists of any kind, then we don’t know who we are and
what we are really worth or where we want to be going with our lives.

Comment on Shining Spirit: Andy Goldsworthy by Ashli

Ashli — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:25:42 +0000

this is Amazing! thanks for sharing Jess. I like this term “site specific sculpture”! Beautiful work.

Comment on Death of a Feminist by Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:51:50 +0000

I completely agree with this article. I’m not yet old enough to be a wife and mother but when it comes to choosing a college and a major I feel the pressure of competition. When people ask me what I really want to do and I say “be an educated homemaker” many people look down on me. Schools push the need for a career so much that it feels like failing to not want to be a doctor or a business woman. Other females think that I am betraying them to want to go back to the stereotypical roles. It may have nothing to do with feminism, or consumerism, but I have to fight with the views of my generation that say that I am taking a step back from progress.

Comment on Shining Spirit: Andy Goldsworthy by Dr. Ellis Konigswasser

Dr. Ellis Konigswasser — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:52:56 +0000

I have the feeling that if there were a way to truly capture the wonderous and ever-curious way you see and explore the world, then we could all see the art nature has to offer us through your keenly observant eyes.

Comment on Time For A Detox! by colon cleanser

colon cleanser — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:53:51 +0000

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Comment on Sprout Varieties, Part II by Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:51:41 +0000

These are some great tips – I wonder how well I can get sprouts to grow since my windows are double-paned. Better get ready for another home experiment…

Comment on Boost Your Immune! by Teresa b

Teresa b — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:45:44 +0000

I hope you don’t mind that I posted a link on my FB wall. If I shouldn’t have for some reason, let me know. I think the info on keeping oneself healthy is really useful.
I got a water pot to make tea at work, but I’ve been using it at home instead! Any certain type of green tea that you might suggest?