TO: All
RE: Solnit
I wouldn’t know her from Eve.
Amy may be absolutely correct in her observation of la femme autre—pardon my French.
But I will say that women tend to be more circumspect in what they will say—out loud—than men.
My point, in these few missives, is that women are more likely to practice ‘silencing’ of opposing opinions; given the (1) power and (2) chance.
This claim that men are silencing women just strikes me as (1) projection and (2) an interesting measure of an ability of men to express themselves a bit more saliently in ‘hard’ issues, e.g., law, fact, etc., than most women can.
Amy may decry Solnit over such business, but she—herself—has definite ‘issues’ of a kindered nature to deal with before she can see the topic clearly. And….she is NOT alone…..
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. -- Some Wag, around 2000 years ago; Matthew 7:3-5]
