Halloween and it's celebration of the witch - sometimes depicted as a beautiful, sexy, "Good Witch," but more often the elderly ugly "Bad Witch" or "Hag," reminds Sister here of the fact that through history many NMNK women have been the ones suspected of, accused of, and convicted of witchcraft or sorcery.
Though witchcraft no doubt existed and exists, from what I've learned about the subject, it is often those who are or appear defenseless because they have no familial or husbandly protection that are easily singled out for abuse, harassment, and victimization.
Today people who do not marry and/or have no children are still thought of as odd, and while some of them perhaps have little choice in the matter, many others do.
Because so many people live together in what would be marriage and so many people have children without marriage or living together or become parents through remarriage, today we may have to think about someone who is NMNK as someone who believes living alone is the best way of life for them. People who live alone may perhaps be celibate by choice as well so we may actually live a more monastic by choice existence than ever before. For some of us living alone may be about pursuing a more spiritual way of life and for some that more spiritual way of life includes practicing ritual, mantra, meditation, or magic.
Happy Halloween to our "Witchy" sisters and brothers who are "SOLO."
MARRIED PEOPLE OUGHT TO DUMP THEIR SINGLE FRIENDS...
Sister is really smelling the baby diapers here!
Sister recently received a very anonymous violently hateful comment which she REJECTED because of the fact that the person claimed to know Dr. Laura personally! (But of course wants to remain unknown like the coward he or she is.) This person went on, attacking me personally rather than my message or posing any INTELLIGENT COMMENTARY.
Shall we switch to open ID instead so that attacks can't come from just anywhere!?
It's OK if you don't agree with our stance here. If you can be respectful about it. But don't expect respect here if you don't earn it!
99.9 percent of the word is going to tell you you're abnormal if you don't BREED! Not feminine or masculine. Not a "real" man or "real" woman. So when Sister gets hate mail it is NOT SURPRISING.
I have read a few of Dr. Laura's books which is saying a lot since most people who are not her fans don't bother to get her drift by using their time to read her. I also have mutual friends through the radio business who suggest that a certain broadcaster who "helped" her career and wrote his own memoir/bio openly talks about how this Neo Conservative Dr. Laura opened her legs to him for her own career when she was young; something she would advise you never do. That's right. She slept around.
She stayed home and raised her child? Are you sure? Or is it that she worked part time ambitiously and was willing to sabotage at least one of her fellow female broadcasters in the process, greedy and hell bent to succeed at any cost?
And she really is NOT entitled to use the Dr. in front of her name, since in our society that means you became a doctor- physician or are a professor at a university and she has never practiced medicine or been a college level professor. Did she earn a PHD? Yes. But not in a subject that academically qualifies her for being a counselor. She has as much background in social work as a gypsy fortune teller!
Maybe Dr. Laura did not say "dump your friends who are single now that you are married as soon as you get off the phone with me" in those exact words. But she has told married people that they should be associating with other married couples - ie that they no longer have anything in common with their left behind single friends. And she has said things that give the impression that once married your single friends can only be bad influences that will lead you to cheat. And the day I heard this comment on the radio - which was some years ago - I WAS SO ANGRY I HAD TO TAKE A FIVE MILE WALK.
IT WAS THE SAME crapola so many of us who Wisely Chose NOT To Marry or Have Children have put up for eons... Those of us who are only acceptable in our families if all those who Did Marry and Live Their Lives Around Their Children and HATE IT, can dump the kids off on us for free babysitting and vacations... Somehow we are supposed to redeem our solitude and sanity by taking care of their kids and being an honorary auntie or uncle...
At any rate, I dare my readers to phone up Dr. Laura and flat out ask her what she thinks circa 2008 and report back to this blog. On your report you must state what station you heard the broadcast, what city, what time you called, what your question was to Dr. Laura and what her answer was.
Here's the link to NOKIDDING, the club out of Vancouver Columbia that is there for you!
"Do women who have fewer or no children live longer? A study of genealogical records kept by British aristocrats for 1,200 years shows that nearly half of all women who survived past 81 were childless. Similar results held for men. One explanation, says Thomas Kirkwood, a biologist at the University of Manchester, is that when the body commits more of its resources for reproduction, fewer might be available to support a long life."
--Discover Magazine,4/99 quoted above...FRIENDS, rush over to see CHILDFREE BY CHOICE, by clicking on the title above!Sister
Click on the link above to get the latest news on the California same sex marriage issue. Who gets to be bride and who gets to be groom if this is same sex marriage. Are gay people male or female by GENDER?
