Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey
July 30, 2008
Second wave feminists put themselves into the (male) world with the lofty goal of attaining equality of the sexes. Many second wavers entered the world through the halls of academia which they felt was the only way to level the scales of inequality. Increasingly since the 1960s women have enrolled in college and received high degrees and become those who professor the academic word to the upcoming generation.
One of the major battles second wavers engaged in was the elimination of gendered language. No longer would there be “selectmen”, there would be “selectpersons”. Congressman went out with the dodo and now a member of Congress is called a Congressperson. While I embrace these non-gendered words when speaking of the position and not the individual, I do actually like gendered language.
Alla Renee Bozarth-Campbell is your classic second wave academic one of those who wants to eliminate gendered language. Page 89 of her book Womanpriest: A Personal Odysseyis a good example of her desire to strike gendered language from the lips of Episcopals
It was during that same year [11973] that the General Convention, meeting in Houston, eliminated once and for all the discriminatory cannon on “deaconesses,” declaring them to be women in the deaconate on par with male deacons. For the first time, ordained women were clearly and unequivocally acknowledged to be what they were: fully ordained clergy, complete deacons.
The Episcopal church eliminated the word “deaconess” because they thought it was discriminatory. I disagree. While I’m all in favor of trying to gender-neutralize words (which isn’t very difficult in English since it’s a language of non-gendered words), I’m not in favor of women being known by the male term. For instance, we no longer have “actresses”, all those who act, male or female, are actors. So why are women embracing the male term, INSISTING on the male term?
Bozarth-Campbell shoots herself in the foot with this desire to eliminate the “discriminatory cannon” when she titled her book “Womanpriest.” For someone who doesn’t want to her title to differentiate her from her male counterparts, she should’ve just name the book “Priest: A Personal Odyssey.” But then that would defeat the purpose of the book because her status as a woman wouldn’t be immediately known. She wants to be differentiated from her male counterparts.
The question which keeps coming into my mind as I read this book (I’m about half done) is why doesn’t she call herself “priestess”? But then I remember her dislike of gendered language (not really if you look at the title of the book with a critical eye), and I think, it’d be too non-Christian for her, too non-Abrahamic.
Sharing the Love
July 29, 2008
Farm Mom honored me with a second award in a week! Thanks so much, Farm Mom!
Now it’s my turn to pass it along.
First I send it to Gina at Cauldron Ridge. She’s got one shitty employer who takes advantage of her. Not only that, she’s got a workmate who slurps his cup! Ug! If ever there was someone who needs love it would be her!
Second, A Seattleite In… has had a turn of bad luck with a car accident then getting laid off. She too needs some love so I’m sending heaps!
There! Some extra love for you ladies!
Berries
July 29, 2008
My legs have scratches all over them, my fingers ares are stained, and I’ve pulled three ticks off me in the last hour. Ahhhh! Nothing soothes my soul like picking blueberries and blackberries!
Rebuilt
July 29, 2008
I rebuilt my google reader feeds. I think I remembered to put all my favorite blogs in there but if all of a sudden I stop commenting on your blog its because the feed didn’t make it into my google reader. Please drop me an email or a comment and ask me to subscribe to your blog again.
No. 1 on the Shit List
July 28, 2008
So I sent in an automatic thingymabob to google about not being able to get into my google reader. They sent me this automatic response:
Thank you for your report. We’ve investigated your account and you should
be able to sign in by resetting your password. To do so, visit
https://www.google.com/accounts/ForgotPasswdRegards,
The Google Team—————-
Please don’t reply to this email, as we won’t be able to review your
response. If your question wasn’t answered, please search or browse the
Google Accounts Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/
Thanks, but um, the problem isn’t fixed. Because I can’t actually tell you what the problem is because there isn’t a box for me to check (they don’t give you a box where you type the problem, they just give you a list of things to check). I know my password, that isn’t the issue. Google reader isn’t letting me log in because they say I don’t have an account associated with the Yahoo email. BUT I DO. I know this because it’s how I read all the blogs I read. I log into it daily. I know it’s there. But I don’t know where it went and why I can’t get into it. And Google doesn’t let me in say that in their (un)help menu.
This is me steaming mad and very, very annoyed.
Shit List
July 28, 2008
Gmail and Yahoo are on my shit list right now.
I have both a Gmail email and a Yahoo email. For some reason when I log into my googlereader (which I do with my Yahoo email), it also logs me into my gmail account. I cannot figure out how the two emails are connected, thus I can’t figure out how to disconnect them.
I searched through the help section for both Yahoo and Gmail (each for over an hour) spent another couple hours in the “account information” in both accounts trying to disconnect the two email address to no avail. And both Gmail and Yahoo say they don’t really respond to troubleshooting requests so there isn’t really a point in trying to contact them.
Customer service for both is lacking. Majorly.
Shifting through hours and hours of troubleshooting discussion groups didn’t work. And I’m glad these two companies think I have the time, knowledge, and skill to do so. I don’t even know how to label the issues besides “I can’t disconnect two seemingly unrelated email accounts.”
When I log into Yahoo, I want to be logged into Yahoo not Gmail and vice versa. I cannot figure out why this is happening and I can’t get it to stop. It’s annoying me to no end because when I log onto my google reader I end up not being logged in as “Howling Hill” and so when I go to leave comments I’m doing under a different name.
So, Yahoo and Gmail, you’re on my shit list.
