WE'MOON

[corylus.livejournal.com]

This is from "We'Moon is a lunar calendar/appointment book. A handbook in natural rhythm that comes out of international womyn's culture:

"We'Moon means 'women.' Instead of defining ourselves in relation to men (as in WO-man or FE-male), we use the word we'moon to define ourselves by our primary relation to the natural sources of cosmic flow. Other terms we'moon use are womyn, wimmin, womon, womb-one...As we'moon, we seek to be whole in ourselves, rather than dividing ourselves in half and hoping that some 'other half'[ will complete the picture. We see the whole rangew of life's potential embodied and expressed by we'moon and do not divide the universe into sex-role stereotypes according to a heterosexual model."

Comments

[kaypoisson.livejournal.com]

i like that.....i must go write it somewhere and smile at it

[animamea.livejournal.com]

[rant on] Women means women. English speaking women are the only ones presumptuous enough to think they have a valid excuse to butcher their language to show how independent they are. It's like that ridiculous bumper sticker: "MENstruation. MENopause. MENtal breakdown. All of women's problems start with men." Ha ha. So very funny. Has it not occurred to anyone else that maybe things are only made worse by this petty divisiveness?[rant off]

Whatever. ::sighs and puts "appointment book" on her shopping list::

Re:

[corylus.livejournal.com]

you have a point. taken out of context, i could agree. but if you saw the actual book, it's not projected in that manner. it's an affirming, very woman-positive celebration. it's not a man-hating diatribe. it just calls for us to stop defining ourselves by roles and to love and worship the goddesses within all of womankind.

your reply seems very venomous. it was not my intent to offend anyone or claim female superiority or separationist sentiments with this post. just another angle from which to look at ourselves as women.

[d-r-love.livejournal.com]

well hell i think it's quite nice.

i'm not for hating men and being a raging feminazi.
but as i sat in class one day and just thought about the word women and every title that is put on me is related to a male.
i could A. Be happy that as a human race we are connected. and love my brother.
or B know that i can never by this worlds definitions and words be seperate from a man.

so i truly don't know how i feel about all of it. i do like relating it to the moon and the womb. that is actually very nice. and celebrating womanhood , "the wild woman ". (which is a good book by the way_)

this book sounds quite nice.

[ailbhe]

Investigate other languages?

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[corylus.livejournal.com]

do you know that the term "feminazi" was coined by rush limbaugh?