Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!mccolm From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: feminine spirit Message-ID: <6803@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 21:21:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6803 Posted: Sun Sep 8 21:21:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 11:35:44 EDT References: <5687@tektronix.UUCP> Reply-To: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eric McColm) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 25 Summary: It occurred to me in reading the quote Moira took from a book, that dealt with grade-school girls (?) trying to show their idea of the feminine spirit, that children are pretty canny. Children have a funny way of seeing through the facades that adults weave about themselves. It may be that the girls in question did not see their mothers as good examples of feminine spirit because they sensed that their mothers were not credible examples of what the girls wanted to be in life (conflict between the then-incomplete indoctrination to want to raise a family and the desire to "have an exciting life"), or that they were picking their mothers' dissatisfactions (or frustrations) with their,the mothers', lives. The existence of conflicts discredits the legend of the "happily ever after" family life. Note I said "it may be". I reserve the right to be wrong. --fini-- Eric McColm UCLA (oo' - kluh) Funny Farm for the Criminally Harmless UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,trwspp,cepu,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!mccolm ARPA: mccolm@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU Quotes on the Nature of Existence: "To be, or not to be..." -Hamlet (Wm. Shakespeare) "I think, therefore I am." -R. Descartes "" -Gleep (Robt. Asprin) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com