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While I suspect that I can guess the answer to this question, I still feel I must ask it (at least rhetorically):
Why am I so damn hungry all the bloody time???
Not that I'm criticizing my wonderful, speedy metabolism. No! I want to hang onto that baby for the rest of my long, fullfilling life!
In theory, the Earthy Root Vegetable soup should be done soon. Then I can have some of that, and maybe be less hungry.
Ye gods.
This is rediculous.
And I'm sleepy on top of it.
Random, thesis related thing: According to Susan Starr Sered, the nature/culture dichotomy that shows up in male dominated religions (nature=bad, culture=good; nature=female, culture=male) doesn't show up in female dominated religions -- at least not in the same way.
Sered states that in most of the female-dominated religions that she studied, the dichotomy wasn't there. Rather, nature and culture were understood as integrated.
Nifty, huh?
In GS, this doesn't seem to be the case, rather the dichotomy sort of fits like nature = good, culture (Land-Raping Patriarchal Society[1]) = bad.
That this is the case isn't overly surprising given that GS developed as a counter-culture.
Interesting (though not totally thesis-related) thing to note:
Starhawk's (sort of) recent book, Earth Path, seems to be kind of giving a nod towards the nature-culture integration idea. In that 'we are nature, working' -- even though we have central heating and wear clothing, and live in houses made of concrete and aluminum siding, we are still nature. A high-rise isn't naturally occuring, but neither is a termite mound. The termites have to make it themselves.
Until we stop seeing ourselves as separate from the land ('better than' or 'worse than', neither one is part of), we'll always feel that dichotomy.
Anyway. :-)
[1] I'm now siezed with the image of a bunch of Old White Men in suits, wearing loyal-order-of-water-buffalo hats. They could have a treasurer, and go bowling on tuesdays and stuff. ;-) Hehehe.
Why am I so damn hungry all the bloody time???
Not that I'm criticizing my wonderful, speedy metabolism. No! I want to hang onto that baby for the rest of my long, fullfilling life!
In theory, the Earthy Root Vegetable soup should be done soon. Then I can have some of that, and maybe be less hungry.
Ye gods.
This is rediculous.
And I'm sleepy on top of it.
Random, thesis related thing: According to Susan Starr Sered, the nature/culture dichotomy that shows up in male dominated religions (nature=bad, culture=good; nature=female, culture=male) doesn't show up in female dominated religions -- at least not in the same way.
Sered states that in most of the female-dominated religions that she studied, the dichotomy wasn't there. Rather, nature and culture were understood as integrated.
Nifty, huh?
In GS, this doesn't seem to be the case, rather the dichotomy sort of fits like nature = good, culture (Land-Raping Patriarchal Society[1]) = bad.
That this is the case isn't overly surprising given that GS developed as a counter-culture.
Interesting (though not totally thesis-related) thing to note:
Starhawk's (sort of) recent book, Earth Path, seems to be kind of giving a nod towards the nature-culture integration idea. In that 'we are nature, working' -- even though we have central heating and wear clothing, and live in houses made of concrete and aluminum siding, we are still nature. A high-rise isn't naturally occuring, but neither is a termite mound. The termites have to make it themselves.
Until we stop seeing ourselves as separate from the land ('better than' or 'worse than', neither one is part of), we'll always feel that dichotomy.
Anyway. :-)
[1] I'm now siezed with the image of a bunch of Old White Men in suits, wearing loyal-order-of-water-buffalo hats. They could have a treasurer, and go bowling on tuesdays and stuff. ;-) Hehehe.
