Women's Issues

[katestine]

Several of my female LJ friends have talked over the years about how they (we) have so many different hobbies and interests, we never develop the close circle of female friends that many other, more feminine women do. I think part of the reason those friends have stuck with LJ more is that we have a community online. Some of it too is that we aren'

Comments

[jadia]

Mildly tangentially, I don't understand socializing in close-knit groups works (and largely I am leery of them anyway for various reasons).... I have several close relationships with friends, but trying to get everyone I am close to to be close to each other as well seems difficult. I think most people I know don't have a close-knit social group, though some of them have loosely-knit ones and others don't have much of a single social group at all. (There are exceptions - but then sometimes they just look close-knit from afar and when you actually talk to people you discover they are not that close-knit after all. Sort of like how everyone thinks they are on the fringe of a social group.)

[katestine]

I think close-knit groups require a lot of work and a lot of interest in making it happen: there's a certain amount of coercion and sacrificing for the group. Like at one point there was talk in my group of everyone donating $400 to some cause. fun.

[thewronghands]

The education argument is one of the reasons that I think RAWA is awesome. It's a force multiplier for empowerment.