Joyce Lee on wed 20 feb 02
Carolsan said"
> remember, 70% of the worlds poor are women...aren't there more =
important
> things to focus on than whether a real women eats quiche?
Like making pots......with any tool and wearing any garb, silently?
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And I'm sure we all agree, C. Truly. But there is a time for frivolity =
and the GG
topic is meant for Fun.... with, as always when =
intellegent/talented/hardworking women such as Kelly and Stephanie etc =
chime in, an undercoating of dead-on seriousness, peppered with =
wonderfully stated nostalgia for the men who helped create them. Men, in =
this case..... another time the women who have influenced us may well be =
their topic. As I recall, this thread was an offshoot of what was =
approaching a "gender bashing" thread, meaning Men ....=20
Mama Luce was my greatest influence..... still is .... every day...... =
all that I do goes through the filter of How Would Mama React To My =
Latest Shennanigans? You talkin' GirlyGirl? She was the epitome of =
GG..... even doing housework .... ALL of it..... bringing in coal for =
the kitchen stove, washing windows with newspapers&vinegar, repairing =
the refrigerator, makin' the tasties pies in the whole world, teaching =
Sunday School, going into the hollers to see what the Rich-One-Day, =
Poor-The-Next coalminers children needed, and coming back to town to =
shame the Incredibly RichRichRich politicians/hoods of Bloody Bell =
County into opening their checkbooks and influence, then turning around =
to campaign against them in their quest to make our county, where the =
streams ran red fromshootin's, into a Wet one(meaning alcohol could be =
sold). Mama won, too, every time ... daddy was a ManlyMan, but didn't =
do tools....... Mama Luce did Everything that Got Done in our household =
(except for the women who came in quarterly to do floors & move =
furniture about.... who certainly were not "GirlyGirl in any way, but =
would have adored having the opportunity to be, but that's another =
story) always while wearing silk stockings, high heels, silk kimonos =
(wrappers, we called them) ..... with her
dark clouds of hair piled high ala I Love Lucy .. or wrapped around a =
"rat" into a low roll at the neck, with a tall "pompadour." Mama often =
dangled a rolypoly, wriggling twin from each arm, while smoking a =
Chesterfield, as she ruled/repaired/scoured simultaneously ..... =
impressive to view from my ShortStuff perspective. =20
BUT .... must admit..... while she laughed with the best, even belly =
laughed, SHE wouldn't have been caught "giggling."....... especially at =
inappropriate moments.
Joyce
In the Mojave
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