Emcye

Great post, read the whole thing and went back to certain passages and read again.  Great suggestions and I hope Wow will take them into consideration.  I think many of us are burned out over the same topics that want to rehash the same controversies and create more partisanship.  Seems ridiculous to me, lacks depth and is totally unproductive.  

I think the difference in the early days, is that we took the topics and dove to our own depths to answer them.  Politics and religious beliefs have sullied the mix and made shallow and thin our reaching out to each other for a "similar" voice to our out there in the universe.  Our similarity lies in our womanhood, I can’t think of a more wonderful attribute we all have in common than being of this gender.  I was raised with more women than men (6 sisters and then 3 more sisters) and I knew and know, I could always count on them.  I know they can count on me because their calls never end.

Women are one of the greatest resources on earth.  They seek, they learn, they teach and give and give and give.  Our hearts are large and want to heal the world and make it whole, but until we can, at the minimum, accept each other right where we are, it is not likely to happen.  We may have a few interesting discussions but until people on the site can say, I accept them no matter what their political beliefs are or their sexual orientation, the fights may go on.  For me those fights are unproductive and a waste of time, and I am sorry to say they reveal the least of what we are.

Peace and grace. 

Emcye

Yes, there are so many other subjects I love discussing, and Wow makes an effort to post a variety of them, but the politics get more hits because of controversy.  I think I will make more effort to post on more of the woman/human interest threads.

As to being an expert on female attributes and interests seems funny to me because having lived with mantribe for so long (husband, 2 sons) I had to come here to to re-establish a sense of individual woman-ness so to speak.  I am lucky for all of my sisters but we are spread all over the nation and our correspondence never requires us to establish the feminine between us.  It is always there.  You have made me think, and I realize that when I speak to my sisters we seldom talk about the men in our lives. The bonds formed when we were young didn’t have them as a centerpiece - our relationship to each other is the centerpiece.  It is very different than relationships I have with men.