[-empyre-] the use in girls coming

[parrishka <parrishka@sympatico.ca>]

though i've been subscribed since May, i haven't always paid the 
strictest attention to the empyre posts because they've usually been so 
compelling & thought-provoking that they would distract me from the 
rest of my tasks for the day.

so my knowledge of this list's behaviour is not completely reliable, 
but i cannot recall ever seeing such immediate hostility towards a 
guest here.

you know what i find boring? having to dissuade myself repeatedly from 
coming to the conclusion that these kinds of attacks and/or dismissive 
gestures are manifestations of a masculinist fear. it feels too easy, 
and i like to think better of my fellow men.

juliane, i look very much forward to hearing what you have to say. 
cyberfeminism is just as complex and fractious a subject as feminism, 
there are many feminisms, and many cyberfeminisms, and i still am 
hopeful that we can explore these issues in the intelligent, 
thoughtful, expansive, critical manner that has characterized the 
discussions here in the past.

katherine parrish
http://www.meadow4.com/squish