The Hand on the Loom

[marina_bonomi]

Yesterday's Poetry Fishbowl had a fascinating theme: 'Influential women'. A series of prompts combined in inspiring ysabetwordsmith to write Rarely Well Behaved .

While I like her work and I get her point, I must admit that I have trouble with the last verse, because, well one can be a good girl and sit at the loom because she doesn't know any better, but one can

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[ellenmillion]

Marvelous! I enjoyed the original poem, but this answer to it really works for me on a personal level, too.

[marina_bonomi]

Thank you, Ellen. :)
I'm glad because the image that came to mind with 'I am here, building my home no matter what' was you.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is a very thoughtful counterpoint. I have linked to it.

Re: Yay!

[technoshaman]

Ooooooh! Song for you both!

Eleanor Roosevelt's Knitting, by talis_kimberley...

Because sometimes it's *both*. :)

Re: Yay!

[marina_bonomi]

Oh, lovely!

And yes, quite often it is both.

Re: Yay!

[marina_bonomi]

Thank you, Elizabeth. :)

[starcat_jewel]

This is true. As a feminist, I must support the right of ALL women to make their own decisions. Even when it's not the decision I'd make. Even when I think it's a bad decision. I can counsel, I can provide information, but at the end of the day, if I believe that women have the right to make their own decisions, I can't then turn around and say, "but not THAT one."

(Note: I do not mean by this that I am obliged to help a woman make a decision that I feel is a poor one, only that my right to object has limits.)

[marina_bonomi]

Thank you.

Yes to everything, I too am often in a position in which I'm called to explain and inform women who must make some choices, and it's hard at times to remember that, no matter how I feel about it, it's *their* choice to make, but an imposed, forced choice is a resented one.

[la_marquise_de_]

That's lovely: thank you.

[marina_bonomi]

Thank you, I'm happy you like it. :)