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The moon has always been reminiscent of women, with the menstrual cycle being compared to the ebb and flow of the ocean, controlled by the moon's pull. The phases of the moon are compared to the way a woman's body changes throughout the course of the month. There are thirteen lunar months in a year.
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Which fairy cast the curse on Sleeping Beauty? It was the thirteenth.
What number has often been called the "cursed" or "evil" number? Thirteen.
"Don't cross me now, for your own sake- and for mine. I am capricious, chancey, chaotic and unpredictable. I feel changed. I think in wild hatreds and wilder loves. Yes, I feel mad. Old memories I hate haunt me now. I've been crying. I feel both vulnerable and ragingly powerful. I look frightful and i feel like running away, flying. I want my female friends. I feel like only fire is a good enough image. There is stormy weather for an emotional weather report and red, red rain. I am crackling with that electricity which burned my friend's wrist the electricity of lightning. I feel brimful, brinkful, womb like a vessel, like a cauldron, bubbling with hot, dark liquid. I feel, in short, witchy as hell" (Griffiths, 147).
PMS was created by pharmaceutical companies. When scientists and doctors first attempted to research this idea of a "premenstrual syndrome" they needed financial backing. Psychologists failed because they couldn't prove that there was an emotional relationship to menstruation. However, in the 1980s there was a woman who succeeded in pleading insanity to a murder since she was PMSing at the time. Doctors, on the other hand, got the financial backing of pharmaceutical companies which is why women are convinced that they must go through so much pain before their ritual monthly bleeding time. I wonder though, were people in this much pain in the past or is it as recent as the articles I read tell me it is? Is PMS a complete farce? I don't think it is, but I wonder how much the commercialization of pain has effected women in our society.
Obstetrics means to "stand at" or "to be present." Interesting.
Every time I've heard or read the word "fathering" it's always been in relation to the invention of a concept or actual thing and the act of conception. Mothering always seems to be this fussy little worrywort woman who won't let her children grow up.
Is it better to see time as cylindrical or linear? Better for who? Why?
What is seen as more positive: brilliance or wisdom? Which is better or preferred? Which has a better connotation?
"Deep subjectivity came along like a sphinx with a banana skin and tripped up the scientist in his march into the light. Fallen, with a sore elbow, bruised knee and ego, the pouting scientist to the sphinx: 'Who are you anyway?'
'Entirely up to you,' replies the sphinx, as particle. 'I see! You are a particle!' cries the scientist. 'What you see depends on how you look,' murmurs the sphinx as wave. The scientist rubs his eyes and, yes, as- if by some mysterious magic, the sphinx is a wave again, a mock-a-minute to stun the three-hundred-year-old certainty of science" (Griffiths, 168).
I wish we could see the world with more side-sight rather than hind-sight.
13
Which fairy cast the curse on Sleeping Beauty? It was the thirteenth.
What number has often been called the "cursed" or "evil" number? Thirteen.
"Don't cross me now, for your own sake- and for mine. I am capricious, chancey, chaotic and unpredictable. I feel changed. I think in wild hatreds and wilder loves. Yes, I feel mad. Old memories I hate haunt me now. I've been crying. I feel both vulnerable and ragingly powerful. I look frightful and i feel like running away, flying. I want my female friends. I feel like only fire is a good enough image. There is stormy weather for an emotional weather report and red, red rain. I am crackling with that electricity which burned my friend's wrist the electricity of lightning. I feel brimful, brinkful, womb like a vessel, like a cauldron, bubbling with hot, dark liquid. I feel, in short, witchy as hell" (Griffiths, 147).
PMS was created by pharmaceutical companies. When scientists and doctors first attempted to research this idea of a "premenstrual syndrome" they needed financial backing. Psychologists failed because they couldn't prove that there was an emotional relationship to menstruation. However, in the 1980s there was a woman who succeeded in pleading insanity to a murder since she was PMSing at the time. Doctors, on the other hand, got the financial backing of pharmaceutical companies which is why women are convinced that they must go through so much pain before their ritual monthly bleeding time. I wonder though, were people in this much pain in the past or is it as recent as the articles I read tell me it is? Is PMS a complete farce? I don't think it is, but I wonder how much the commercialization of pain has effected women in our society.
Obstetrics means to "stand at" or "to be present." Interesting.
Every time I've heard or read the word "fathering" it's always been in relation to the invention of a concept or actual thing and the act of conception. Mothering always seems to be this fussy little worrywort woman who won't let her children grow up.
Is it better to see time as cylindrical or linear? Better for who? Why?
What is seen as more positive: brilliance or wisdom? Which is better or preferred? Which has a better connotation?
"Deep subjectivity came along like a sphinx with a banana skin and tripped up the scientist in his march into the light. Fallen, with a sore elbow, bruised knee and ego, the pouting scientist to the sphinx: 'Who are you anyway?'
'Entirely up to you,' replies the sphinx, as particle. 'I see! You are a particle!' cries the scientist. 'What you see depends on how you look,' murmurs the sphinx as wave. The scientist rubs his eyes and, yes, as- if by some mysterious magic, the sphinx is a wave again, a mock-a-minute to stun the three-hundred-year-old certainty of science" (Griffiths, 168).
I wish we could see the world with more side-sight rather than hind-sight.