I'm so excited for Skate Kitchen and I thought of you instantly when I saw the trailer, because of your skateboarding adventures. Girls on skateboards! What's not to love?
There are times when the content of someone's beliefs really does matter - but I think just as often, what matters more is the way in which people approach those beliefs, the spirit in which they try to live them. Do they believe with love and generosity? Or is their belief narrow-minded and inward-turning, suspicious toward all outsiders - so they try to create their own nation, as you put it, by having a lot of children and keeping them close.
I've noticed particularly with feminist writers that often what ends up being most important to me is not what precisely they believe, but whether they actually like women, as women are, even if women are not living up to their standards for what women ought to be. I've read authors (Elizabeth Wurtzel) who seem just about as touchy about actual women's shortcomings as a Bolshevik writer frustrated by the way the actual proletariat falls short of their vision of the New Soviet Man.
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Date: 2018-08-30 05:46 pm (UTC)There are times when the content of someone's beliefs really does matter - but I think just as often, what matters more is the way in which people approach those beliefs, the spirit in which they try to live them. Do they believe with love and generosity? Or is their belief narrow-minded and inward-turning, suspicious toward all outsiders - so they try to create their own nation, as you put it, by having a lot of children and keeping them close.
I've noticed particularly with feminist writers that often what ends up being most important to me is not what precisely they believe, but whether they actually like women, as women are, even if women are not living up to their standards for what women ought to be. I've read authors (Elizabeth Wurtzel) who seem just about as touchy about actual women's shortcomings as a Bolshevik writer frustrated by the way the actual proletariat falls short of their vision of the New Soviet Man.