4/9/99 - I would like to officially declare April 10th National I am a Feminist who Loves Men Day.
If you are a feminist who understands the pressing need for such a day, please pass this notion on to others, and celebrate the day by giving out hugs, favors and compliments liberally to deserving males, declaring "in the name of feminism, I give you a hug". It would also be nice to affix a NIAAFWLM button to your lapel. I felt that this holiday needed to be instituted right away, so I didn't have time to have buttons made for this year, but maybe you can improvise.
Now that I have, by popular request (of like 2 or 3 people ), resurrected my thought pages on the awesome joe.to server, I'd like to know what types of thoughts to include. I have a lot of thoughts, but many of them would require too much background explanation (for example, thoughts about my field of psychology), are fairly conventional (meaning I have thoughts about, say, abortion, but don't feel I have any special insight), or are very personal and hard to explain. Since you *are* actually looking beyond my index page, what is it that you are hoping to find? Humor? Rants? Profound deep philosophy? I want to oblige. Please mail me and tell me what I could include in my thought pages that would interest you. (I don't have a guestbook anymore because I was becoming too obsessed with how many people signed it and what they said).
4/8/99 - Since so many of my thoughts are explored in email conversations, and since I have more limited free time these days, but I want to keep these pages active, I plan to renew my practice of putting excerpts from email in here. Since I've been online, I have had many interesting discussions with strange netizens -- strange as in unfamiliar to me (only one of my real life friends is online), as well as in their lack of conformity to norms. I'll try to post at least one excerpt a week. I don't think I'll dip into any old saved emails because there are just so many cool ideas and people I have been exposed to, it would be too overwhelming to choose.
I have received several emails about my rants about sex on the February thought pages; a few of these mails accused me of being a "man-hater". I have a lot of issues with romantic relationships, and I vented some of them. That does not mean I hate men. People are vast, myself included, and there is room, believe me, for such angry rants AND for love.
In addition to being a wonderful forum for exchange of rational, civilized thoughts, the net is a good place to explore the darker side of things, and to be really honest in a way that is not possible in much of day to day life. I intend to utilize that strength. Even more than I have been.
Unfortunately, one of the people who took exception to that rant is someone I very much did not want to get the message that I hate men (yet he keeps interpreting my issues as hatred of men). I understand his reaction in light of the fact that he has not ever met me in real life, and has major issues of his own around romantic relationships. Maybe I should balance out the rants with some of my positive thoughts involving guys. I haven't done so previously because I do not tend to feel the overwhelming need to vent my positive emotions in the same way as I do the negative.
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