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Lynda

Butterfly

About Me

girls layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com MyHotCommentsA feminist is a person who answers "yes" to the question, "Are women human?" Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. And it's certainly not about trading personal liberty--abortion, divorce, sexual self-expression--for social protection as wives and mothers, as pro-life feminists propose. It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience. It's about women consulting their own well-being and being judged as individuals rather than as members of a class with one personality, one social function, one road to happiness. It's about women having intrinsic value as persons rather than contingent value as a means to an end for others: fetuses, children, the "family," men.-------------------------------------------------------- ---"Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions.. for safety on the streets... for child care, for social welfare...for rape crisis centers, women's refuges, reforms in the law." (If someone says) 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' (I ask) 'Why? What's your problem?'" - Dale Spender, author of For the Record: The Making & Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, 1985-------------------------------------------------------- ---I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.-------------------------------------------------------- ---Sometimes the knowledge learned from unpleasant situations can advance society further than if the situation had never come up---------------------------------------------------------- -Sadly, there are violent realities which appear to be so common that they are no longer front-page news. Perhaps it is because these murders are carried out in the name of the state, in the name of national safety and on behalf and for the victims.---------------------------------------------------- -------They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemmingway-------------------------------------------------- ---------I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


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Music:

Dancehall. Hip Hop. Rock. Showtunes. Celtic. Umm, definatly not into metal or anything. And I'm not making an effort to listen to country but if its there its kool i guess.

Movies:

Ten Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, Chicago

Television:

I dont really watch much T.V. But I'm definatly feeling Will and Grace, Friends, West Wing, and Law and Order

Books:


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Heroes:

My mother and my grandmother by far

My Blog

12:48

It's 12:48 and on some nights being up would seem pretty normal for me. BUT it's 12:48 after a long and good weekend with a long and sweet week ahead yet there are ten thousand things running threw my...
Posted by Lynda on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:53:00 PST

12:48

It's 12:48 and on some nights being up would seem pretty normal for me. BUT it's 12:48 after a long and good weekend with a long and sweet week ahead yet there are ten thousand things running threw my...
Posted by Lynda on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:53:00 PST

On a seperate note...

I also decided that distance and age can make maintaining relationships with people very hard. More on this later???
Posted by Lynda on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:15:00 PST

Realization

(Very vague... if you don't know you're not suppose to... really not intended for response...)I've come to the realization... lie, it's not a realization...it's more to say I've been reminded... yes, ...
Posted by Lynda on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:26:00 PST

Frusterated

Just needed a minute to say I am currently frusterated with friendships and what people expect of you, and what people do with themselves, people making bad disisions, people puting people in bad situ...
Posted by Lynda on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:19:00 PST

Real Update

My last day of work was Sunday and it was a WONDERFUL thing! I didn't think i would end up feeling as relieved as I do about this subject. That might be because I'm still going back to help with dream...
Posted by Lynda on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:10:00 PST

I liked this

A United States Marine was attending some college courses betweenassignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Oneof the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and amember...
Posted by Lynda on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:05:00 PST

Most of the time

I interpreted t his song for the dance recital today with Ashley and Emily. I can't say i particularly liked the music but the more i got into translating it the more i can see it as a reflection on m...
Posted by Lynda on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:39:00 PST

Hospital

Funny i've been getting yelled at to go into the hospital because iended up there tonight. just not for me. Long story made short, June is in the hospital not breathing well, with pain fom the side o...
Posted by Lynda on Mon, 22 May 2006 07:06:00 PST

Pain

Okay, so I'm not gona lie, I'm kinda freaked out.For the past month I've been waking up about once a week with this shooting pain in my calf, my right leg, the same one i have surgery on. I dont know ...
Posted by Lynda on Sat, 20 May 2006 09:58:00 PST