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[rainonpavement]

GRRRRRR!!!!! SO I just spent like 20 minutes in the internet cafe writing this super long entry and just when I was about to post it I accidentally hit switch on the surge protector with my foot killing the power to not only my computer but the computer of the rather tough looking chap sitting next to me who had been writing a couple of pages on

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[singeraf800]

well...as long as the woman don't have a problem doing the domestic work then I don't see it as an issue. As long as they don't feel like they are missing out on anything and its their choice (I don't know enough about their life-style to know if it is or isn't) Than I don't see the problem. When I was younger (a part of me still feels this way) I used to want to me the domestic house-wife type. In the kind of feminism that I believe in as long as a woman (or a man, for that matter) feels happy and accomplished in what they are doing and what life they are leading nothing else matters. Do they choose to live this way? Or is it just the lack of capitalist socity that makes them have this life-style? Mike, I don't know you very well. But I must say, you are crazy-smart. I enjoy reading your livejournal. I hope you don't find it creepy that I always comment lol

[singeraf800]

not creepy at all.

[peacelovehappy]

whoa, i just got back from spending weeks in Transylvania and was having the same kinds of thoughts in the small villages there. the people seem happy and reasonably content (well with their lifestyle anyhow, there are politacal issues not resolved about being hungarian under romanian rule...) but they were overjoyed to show me their organic sustanable farms behind their houses (falling apart it seems, but beautiful, i took more pictures than my dad's camera could hold, and he thought it was imposseble to run our! i will post them when i get time) from witch they, for the most part anyhow, live intirely off of. (the only thing we ate in the villages that was grown farther away than their local market (and there wasn't even much of that, most came from no farther than the house next door) was ketchup, soda, and beer, everything else was local) and boy was it good. i spent time at a church, a community center, walking around the villages, a choir rehersal, groups of teenagers chillin, elderly people's houses... and everywhere

[rainonpavement]

Wow!!! Thank you for taking the time to write that. It´s so rad to hear that I´m not the only one dealing with this. I´m very much down for a processing/comparing session. ♥

[peacelovehappy]

so are you back in the states now? and if not, when do you get home? i leave for camp IF in a couple of weeks, but before that i have nothing doing except unpacking, cleaning, and my summer work for theology class. (oh yeah and hanging out w/ people, danceing, and eating ice cream, but that's to be taken for granted, IT'S SUMMER! (i'm still excited about that)

[rainonpavement]

I get back the 21st