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- From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
- Subject: Re: Mothers and daughters
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:34:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.193423.28318@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec17.002617.2758@smds.com>
- Sender: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
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- In article <1992Dec17.002617.2758@smds.com> rh@smds.com (Richard Harter) writes:
- >
- >This article is posted to soc.women. Please follow it up with
- >any topic that you want to discuss. Change the title line, if
- >you like, but please don't add any groups to the distribution.
- >
- >Maybe something good will happen.
-
- Well, I, for one, think this is an excellent idea. Wow, a thread
- in soc.women that's _not_ about abortion! Could be a trend....
-
- Mothers and daughters, hm? How do other women reading here get
- along with their mothers? Do you share similar views? And do
- you agree or disagree on basic philosophies? Any feminist
- mother/daughters? (Neat Ms. issue, btw.)
-
- My mom and I have always gotten along well (up until a nasty fight
- earlier this month--which we seem to have made up from--mostly by
- not mentioning it--so that's shaken my view of our relationship
- quite a bit). I don't know where she stands on major feminist
- issues, though she's always encouraged me along "traditionally"
- feminist paths, and not pushed me in "traditionally patriarchical"
- paths.
-
- For instance, we (3 girls) never taught that marriage was our
- goal in life--we had career on the brain from when we were little.
- We were never given barbie dolls, or other gender-specific toys,
- like makeup or hair-dressing stuff. (Yuck!) We got neat stuff
- like Tinker Toys and Erector sets and Madame Alexander dolls...
- And my dad helped us build this huge dollhouse that I collected
- antique furniture for and we got to paint and carpet ourselves.
- And he strung lighting for it, too.
-
- I'm getting a little off-track here--I guess Christmas is making
- me nostalgic.
-
- We've stayed away from talking about heavy topics, though. I
- should try her with a subscription to Ms.--see if she likes it.
- I came out to myself and some of my friends as bisexual earlier
- this year. I don't dare bring that up with her. I may in the
- future, but it's one of those topics that "we just don't talk
- about." Is it being a Southerner? Or do all mother/daughter
- pairs have these kinds of etiquette?
-
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-
- Piglet, babbling but curious
-