Horse, Mary & squad,
Horse wrote:
> MARY:
> > With few exceptions, almost all of the Lila Squad contributors are men.
>
HORSE
> Because it is on the Internet and the majority of Internet users are, apparently,
> male it is fairly predictable that this would be so. That's not good, in my opinion,
> and will hopefully change over time.
Completely agree with Horse on this one. Lila Blewitt was written the
way she was to bring out the conflicts in Phaedrus biological and
intellectual patterns. If she had been smart then these conflicts would
never have arisen and there would be no way to illustrate the various
moral patterns that are the subject of the book.
As for lack of women round here, it's a pity but it's the same on other
mailing lists and on usenet, I believe it's because of wider social
issues that have nothing to do with Lila. There is a social moral
pattern that discourages women from being independent and intellectual
(don't be too clever or you'll never find a husband). It's stronger in
some cultures than others, but it's still in all of them to some degree.
It is gradually being overridden by intellectual values of a higher
morality but the process isn't complete yet.
Diana
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