http://urbanhonking.com/advice/2012/08/04/on-being-an-organism-composed-of-specialized-cells-that-are-in-and-of-themselves-universes/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/advice/2012/08/04/on-being-an-organism-composed-of-specialized-cells-that-are-in-and-of-themselves-universes/#comment-117 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:30:09 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/advice/?p=149#comment-117 Oddly enough, I had already taken your advice before reading it. The ‘big adventure’is a move up to Seattle and a flirtation with industry before I settle deeply into the armchair of academia. Not the circus of imagining, but definitely a challenge to my comfort zone. I think you are right, about the man and the pants, something I never really considered an issue, but comes up time & again, and has led to some relatively bad situations. I strongly rejected my mother’s anti-male feminism, but replaced it with a vaccuum of indecision. Being realistic about the times we live in and living up to it in turn (postfeminist, post-postmodern, pre-first contact, world-wide-webbed) is a responsibility I have flirted with at best, shirked at most. Being a Woman of the New Age (think NASA, not Joseph Campbell) implies expecting Men to rise to the occasion as well. Who is going up in that rocket with me? Yipes, that IS a decision I should make carefully. This is the new note card I will add to the deck of my ipad’s rolodex, summed up in a phrase I read on a protest sign; “I didn’t come from your rib, I came from a vagina,” but with the following caveat: We all did! I think men as well as women are trying to figure out how to order and organize society in a meaningful way after all these big social changes. I think a good metaphor to move on with is the rocketship into space, lord knows I don’t want to get blasted up there with JUST ANYBODY!!!

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