tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28353717.post116463891965852374..comments2023-10-30T04:09:45.910-04:00Comments on Letters and Surveys: Reprise of This I Believe and Do Men Ever Write in Women's Voicesbrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09999205528107936871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28353717.post-1164769043000558792006-11-28T21:57:00.000-05:002006-11-28T21:57:00.000-05:00Anne GG,Thanks for the Virginia Woolf info."Phoebe...Anne GG,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the Virginia Woolf info.<BR/>"Phoebe--had not a bone in her body." That is the problem. Women written by men, and sometimes, even, written by women have so little substance.<BR/><BR/>Catherine, in Washington Square, is there, but who is she? Hardly anyone except in respect to her father and her lover. At least H.James allows her to grow a bit, develop, stand up against her father, against her lover. She gains some autonomy in the course of the book, but for the purpose of what? To quietly return to her quiet corner to work her quiet embroidery.<BR/><BR/>How about Kitty Vaught in The Last Gentleman? She is virtually nothing. She might as well not be there. Put in a plaster mannequin. It will do just as well.<BR/><BR/>Why is this? I'll have to work on a blog entry. I'll call it, "I want to be a cheerleader when I grow up."brdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09999205528107936871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28353717.post-1164669020643023822006-11-27T18:10:00.000-05:002006-11-27T18:10:00.000-05:00Because I didn't write this post but just composit...Because I didn't write this post but just composited it, I get to comment a lot.<BR/><BR/>Cate, the concept of incarnation in relation to the Holy Spirit is interesting, important. If the Spirit is incarnate, she is incarnate within humans, not as a human. Therefore, your mention of the Holy Eucharist is quite appropriate as we experience it. We take it into ourselves, ingest it, it becomes a part of our very cellular beings.<BR/><BR/>Incarnation, taking on flesh, enfleshment is really a dynamic thought when juxtaposed with the image of communion.<BR/><BR/>I guess I do owe an explanation for my use of the feminine in relation to the third of the trinity. I like it, am comfortable with it, am committed to it. And, I do not consider referring to God in the feminine as disrespectful in the least. Yet I know how uncomfortable the feminine pronoun, being used in relation to God, makes some people feel. <BR/><BR/>I really do believe that the female is part of what reveals deity to us, i.e. God's own image. I have gotten to the point in my own thinking that I want to say, how dare we not refer to God as she. But I do know that for many, this is a radical departure. It is a departure that I have made.brdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09999205528107936871noreply@blogger.com