The road to ruin is paved with patriarchy

[hawkwing_lb]

This week has been an exercise in stepping on all my defensive reactions in public. There are people who say that learning self-restraint is good for the soul. I've never really believed them.

That was two, two, slapfights in the space of a week.

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I'm tired. I've developed, sometime in the last couple of weeks (thanks largely, I believe, to my funding application), aches in both my hands. I am staring at my to-do list in mounting panic.

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death...

Sigh. If only all the things to do were so easily conquered.

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I'd like my brain to come back now, please? If that's too much to ask, I'd settle for some motivation.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

I think that one of the reasons that I so enjoy reading fantasies about warrior maidens is because I'm so culturally programmed to retreat into deference and placation at the least sign of conflict... So can I say how much I admire people who have the guts (and articulacy) to put their heads above the parapet and return fire?

That said, I'm bewildered by the utterly out-of-proportion reactions you've stirred up. Rationality & restraint? Don't we do that any more? Apparently not.

Hope you have a good weekend, if your nerves aren't too scorched.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Boys not wanting girls to play in their sandbox, blech. (I will stop talking about gender when gender-relations-in-the-world stops being something that hurts me directly. Sorry, boys. Not shutting up and going away - no, wait, I'm not sorry.)

It's been a bewildering week. Thanks. I'm off to go punch the air in karate.