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writing: 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. -- yet another dictionary
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I got my period this morning. I'm sure all ye readers are thrilled with the sharing. I mention it only because I've been in a really bad mood for the last 5 days and can no longer deny that it was probably PMS. Now, in the postfeminist era writing about PMS or menstrual blood is considered terribly out. Shit is in. Menstrual blood is out. There's a message there somewhere. Right in front of me if I could only decipher it.
So I can't camp in either the postfeminist outhouse or the feminist menstrual hut politically and philosophically. Both paradigms give me fits. But I might have a slight leaning towards the feminist camp just because even though I get apoplectic over "women's writing " as a separate genre and I don't put my menstrual blood in a sacred container and build a shrine to it I am a woman who passionately believes in equal rights: which women do not yet have either in law or in fact. And does anyone remember about a year and half ago when "pornography on the internet" was such a huge threat that AOL dropped a women's breast cancer discussion group (which they quickly reinstated when they realized what they had done) because the word "breast" was on their list of dirty words? Ever since then I have wanted to know if "prostate" was a dirty word. Think about it.
And now for something completely different:
Has anybody else noticed that the nineties are the decade without compassion?
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