[New-Poetry] Tongues Afire -- Call For Writers

Sat Sep 6 17:11:38 EDT 2008

Um, I meant "rhetoric" not rubric.  School's back, knocking at my brain.

Hmm, I think this is a can of worms and a half.  Worms with swords.  

Maybe the ideal conforming woman is the notion of a sort of 'modern woman' who embraces traditional views of womanhood while giving a pseudo-nod to the progress women have made.  Society-in-general can only tolerate so much outside of our familiar & secure comfort zones.  Right now, I'm thinking about Sarah Palin.  [Turning hand-crank of opener now ...]   Off the top of my head, she would be symbolic of a conforming woman, esp versus Hillary Clinton.  Palin embraces, no, touts her 'soccer mom' role while also giving nods to 'progress' (she belongs to some right-wing 'feminist' group) for women (her nods resemble that of a pit bull gearing up for the lunge, seeing's how she's a self professed pit bull with lipstick.  oh how we do love our
 aggressive woman images, for fun only though).  I mean, she has no problem seeking power, but she's careful to do so under the traditional rubric of what it means to be a woman.    She'll get more covert sexist flak than H. Clinton got, for sure.  Hillary didn't conform well enough; she didn't even bake cookies and was damned to hell and back for it!  Just google image search her name and see what comes up.  At least Palin knows what she has to do to make her own kind of selfish progress (i.e. sell out more 'progressive' or 'nonconforming' women for the payout).  Conform.  Hillary didn't play those cards right (i.e. she's slightly nonconforming in terms of her womanhood-- too many 'male' behaviors like thinking aloud, demanding she be taken seriously, didn't play up her nurturing side, etc -- yikes!).  

Now I'm sitting in the can, wriggling with the worst,

Amy

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--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Judy Prince <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:
From: Judy Prince <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Tongues Afire -- Call For Writers
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &, Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 4:53 PM

Good point, Tad.  I just don't know.  If you're right, I wonder what that translates to in terms of what the nonconforming female actually does each day?  I'm trying to imagine the ways in which conforming females behave and then compare that to what a nonconforming female might do.  But right now I'd much rather have lunch.

Best,
Judy

2008/9/6 TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>

Wouldn't it be more about non-conforming /to/ the stereotypes of a given gender?

Judy Prince wrote:

Hi, Amy,

Does one have to be queer, trans, gender non-conforming and a person of colour all at the same time in the same body?  And what is gender non-conforming?  My body seems unlikely to non-conform at this stage of the game, thank goodness.  Since "trans" means across or beyond, it's likely that I'll only be trans after I die.  More's the pity.  On the other hand, being a beyond or across woman sounds positively goddess-like!  Should I be able to choose, then, I'd want to be a trans.  

[BTW, I'm having you on, in case you can't tell.]

judyhappened2

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