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femsupremacy-digest Digest Volume 96 : Issue 17

Today's Topics:
Re: FW: BEER JOKE
Re: Egalitarian vs Femsupremacy
Re: Advise please
Re: God/Goddess Worship (in Africa)
Re: Advise please
Re: Delay In Messages
Re: Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
Re: One likes, the other doesn't (Re: the ultimate
Re: God/Goddess Worship
Re: One likes, the other doesn't (Re: the ultimate
Re: Delay In Messages
Re: Delay In Messages
Re: Is all S&M sexual?
Re: One likes, the other doesn't (Re: the ultimate

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:08:54 -0500
From: scott rudolph
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: FW: BEER JOKE
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960913030854.006c3a54@mail.execpc.com>
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At 08:46 AM 9/10/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>BTW, a noted beer authority recently asserted in my local Sunday paper that
>women invented beer! I forget his name right now...wish I'd clipped and
>saved that article! Don'tcha hate that?
>
>Laura Goodwin
>
>I think the beer authority you're reffering to is Michael Jackson. I am
also a home brewer; and among home brewers Michael Jackson is the most well
known and authoritative beer expert. I've heard him tell of how beer was
probably invented by women, as they have invented most forms of food
preparation.

scott
rudy@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~rudy

"Animals are my friends; and I don't eat my friends."
George Bernard Shaw

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dee-Ann LeBlanc
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Egalitarian vs Femsupremacy
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Jonnan West wrote:
>
> Had she said 'military', Department of Defense, or even 'Those
> asses at the Pentagon' I would've agreed wholeheartedly. But she was
> speaking exclusively of Nasa and her context applied it even more
> narrowly towards exploratory and research programs as if they were
> costing us billions.

I don't want to get involved in the nitpicking, but I do have a point
to make. I don't recall Patricia referring to a particular country,
etc. This is an International list (in fact, if I'm referring to my
home, I'm referring to Canada). For all anyone knows, she was talking
about the whole world's spending on space research, etc.
Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of what she originally said to
doublecheck.

This is mostly a reminder of folks that sometimes you'll have to
explain regional/cultural/country specific things to everyone else.
:) I still remember how many Americans and other folks outside Canada
I confused when bringing up the Referendum that happened here last
October, with Quebec trying to leave Canada. No one had any clue of
what was happening, even though it was HUGE, scary news in Canada.

Dee-Ann

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:03:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dee-Ann LeBlanc
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
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Chase Vogelsberg wrote:
>
> >Patricia wrote:
> >It is the difference between the slash and burn mentality that has so
> >shamelessly despoiled our mother the earth who are now spending billions
> >on space flight and terraforming..coming up with real scientific ways to
> >make Mars habitable for humans after we have nothing left on Earth.
>
> Specific enough to space exploration / colonization to be pretty easy to
> see where he presumed NASA was being discussed, and not DOD / Military.
> But somehow he's being just like a man and putting words in someone's
> mouth.

Ah, there's her actual quote. I'm sorry, Chase, but there are a few
assumptions being made here. 1. That she was referring to just the
US. 2. That these were _all_ government monies regardless of the
government. The private sector also does research, as does the
scientific sector.

Dee-Ann

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:05:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: feydancer@earthlink.net (Phoenix)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: God/Goddess Worship (in Africa)
Message-Id: <199609130405.VAA16783@serbia.it.earthlink.net>
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>> Hmm... a quick trip to _Goddesses in World Mythology_ by Martha Ann &
>> Dorothy Myers Imel revealed a large number of African goddesses. The first
>> section is devoted entirely to them (excluding Egypt, which has its own
>> extensive section). I quit counting them around 100--which was still in the
>> "E" listings. Modern worshippers in Voudoun, Umbanda, etc. would be very
>> surprised to hear that God/dess worship was non-African!
>>
>> --Lady Phoenix
>
> I may be wrong then - I'll check it out. It was -my-
>understanding that the African 'Goddesses' would be more closely ascribed
>to the Nymphs of Greek mythology than the definition of a god or goddess
>as having dominion over an entire aspect of nature (-my- definition of a
>god or goddess as opposed to say a nymph, satyr, lamia et al. It
>generally works for me but may not be what someone else uses). I will see
>what I can find out.
> I'm completely unfamiliar with Umbanda, but I know modern Voudoun
>is a mixture of a number of african religions with christian overtones,
>at least to the best of my understanding. I only know a very few
>practicianers though (This is Indianapolis, not New Orleans - ) and
>I've found books on the subject notable for the number of times they
>contradict each other - .
> Jonnan
>
>

The African Goddesses seem (to me) similar to Goddesses in other
cultures--all the way from supreme diety/creator (Mawu, Nyame, Tamuno,
Woyengi, etc.) to dieties of specific aspects of nature (such as sea,
weather, moon, sun, stars, insects, and dieties of aspects of human life
(childbirth, fertility, death, education, agriculture, justice, etc.).

Umbanda is similar to Voudoun and comes via Brazil, along with Macumba and
Candomble. Santeria and Ifa are two more African-based syncretic religions.
All of these religions have pantheons that include powerful goddesses who
definitely have "dominion over an entire aspect of nature." One good example
is Yemanja-- "Goddess of Love and Sexuality, Water; Unhappiness; Mother and
Guardian. Goddess of saltwater and freshwater. She is the universal mother."
(from Goddesses in World Mythology)

I came across this on the Net:

"Every New Year's Eve, the wide beaches of Rio undergo an extraordinary
one-night
transformation, changing from pleasure grounds for devotees of sun and surf into
sanctuaries for believers in Umbanda, the city's largest spirit sect. As the
sun sets, millions of people come together on the sands to pay special
homage to the ruling divinity of the sea, Yemanja. Their prayers ask for
blessings in matters of love; oftentimes they are outright requests for
divine intervention. Gathered beside bonfires and candles, they swirl to the
mesmerizing beat of drums and chant hymns. The climactic moment comes at the
stroke of midnight when the worshippers rush to the water's edge and close
their prayers by casting a bouquet of roses into the sea.

I remember standing there at the edge of the ocean with Pia and the rest of
my family watching as millions of people, thousands of them women dressed in
flowing white gowns, tossed roses into the dark waters. The collective
desire to be loved was inspiring. The visual was simply breathtaking. There
was a moment of pious silence where all you could hear was the surf. The
faithful watched intently the flowers they had thrown, for if these flowers
returned to shore, that meant their prayers had fallen on deaf ears and the
new year would bring much heartache.

Pia was so taken by this moment that she commissioned a street artist to
capture it with paints. Now that painting hangs above our chimney.
Oftentimes I caught her looking at it. A look which said: if white gowns and
red roses are the means to speak to God, what splendor heaven must hold."

(http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~skypen/Pia/rio.html)

--Lady Phoenix

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: feydancer@earthlink.net (Phoenix)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
Message-Id: <199609130415.VAA17762@serbia.it.earthlink.net>
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Jonnan West wrote (in small part):

> So the question becomes, do I, as an person already announced to
>be in conflict on some levels with the espoused views of those on this
>mailing list, have a right or a need to remain on this list against the
>notable objections of members in good standing who feel that there is a
>certain basic assumption that, females or feminine qualities, however
>defined, are intrinsically superior to males or masculine qualities, that
>should be shared by anyone actively participating in discourse on this
>list, and that those who are -not- in alignment with that assumption,
>should debate their philosophy elsewhere.
>
> If this is the consensus of the group as a whole, or of a large
>minority, then I will depart the area rather than be a source of further
>friction within the list.
>

I think as far as friction goes, you come in as small potatoes. You've been
reasonably polite (although a bit verbose). As far as I'm concerned you are
welcome to stay or go. (If you're too much of a pain, Dee-Ann will
undoubtedly kick you off anyway!) ;} My only suggestion is that a little
more listening and a little less talking would probably be appropriate.

--Lady Phoenix

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:03:18 +0100
From: robert and fiona forsythe
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Delay In Messages
Message-ID:

In message , Barry
Emerson Wright writes
>Friends,
>
> I've gotten no mail from FS since yesterday and I know some
>folks have posted, including myself. Is the problem with the List or my
>ISP? If anyone is getting FS messages, I would be very grateful if you
>would e-mail me and let me know.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Barry
>
>___________________________________________________________________
>Questions and comments should be sent to listmaster@renaissoft.com.
>For a list and description of supported mailing list commands, send
>mail to femsupremacy-request@renaissoft.com with the subject "help".
>
something's been a mess somewhere but we have no idea whether the
problem is in Canada or with our provider Demon Internet who certainly
have had problems.
--
fiona and robert forsythe

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:27:48 -0400
From: Laura Goodwin
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com, femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960913132748.00699134@popd.ix.netcom.com>
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At 06:34 PM 9/12/96 -0700, jnbry@ix.netcom.com wrote:

>
>my wife
>is as religious as I am agnostic. Just before she packs our three boys into
>the minivan to take them to church sunday morning she always gives me
>instructions as to what to do while she is gone. I think it is a way cool
>contrast.

Except for the church part that sounds like my marriage. Bruce is not at
all religious in the conventional way (he was raised Jewish...happy New
Year, BTW), but says that he has religious feelings for me. I am a devout
Pagan, and am raising my children Pagan. There is no conflict on this issue
in my house, for us it's just how it's expressed.

I think what's going on is that Bruce needs a physical Goddess toward whom
he can relate in some palpable way. In our religion this is a legitimate
form of religious expression. In other religions it's characterized as
idolatry.

Laura Goodwin


"All forms of fanaticism are suspect. The humane society
of the future, which we now build, will appreciate diversity
and reward tolerant behavior."

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:18:54 -0500
From: falcon@sbc.mwol.com
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: One likes, the other doesn't (Re: the ultimate
Message-ID:

FE>On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:44:55 -0400, Laura wrote:

FE>> I know several other D/s couples where the husband is a toilet slave, and
FE>>without exception it was always the guy's idea. These other wives and I
FE>>give each other *the look* (you women know what I mean) when ever the topic
FE>>comes up. We don't talk about despising the practice, or about the shame w
FE>>feel for agreeing to it. The subs seem to think that we just glory in our
FE>>power. They won't let themselves be aware of the pain this causes, because
FE>>their obsession is so overwhelming.

FE>I think that partly the problem is that there is a close loving
FE>relationship and this makes it very difficult for the woman.

FE>As a man who has had to pay a woman to feed me usually at the last
FE>moment I am filled with disgust at my desires and I feel I must be
FE>stupid to want to do such a thing. I have not paid excessive amounts
FE>for the woman to feed me so I would think that the women who have done
FE>it don't experience the revulsion that many women do. Quite often
FE>another woman has watched the feeding and amazingly when two women are
FE>together, rather than be embarrassed, they seem to enjoy it. They
FE>don't usually try to end it as quickly as possible but have sometimes
FE>literally rubbed my nose in it!

FE>I don't think I could suggest this practice to someone I know because
FE>of the embarrassment it would cause but I could understand how, if a
FE>woman did it to me once, I would be moved to beg desperately for her
FE>to do it again!

FE>peter

FE>Peter Saxton, from London
FE>peter@psaxton.demon.co.uk

FE>___________________________________________________________________
FE>Questions and comments should be sent to listmaster@renaissoft.com.
FE>For a list and description of supported mailing list commands, send
FE>mail to femsupremacy-request@renaissoft.com with the subject "help".

hello peter
i guess in the usa... it seems this country is sometimes obsessed with
taboos... i would imagine in England or a lot of places in Europe...
that there are more women that would enjoy using a toilet slave... i
read in Club magazine years back exerpts from the diary of Bruno
Kahlman... who had consumed from women... one account had me in complete
envy... he was placed in a brothel for women in Holland... he performed
IBS 8 times in one day... that is immaculate body service... where he
consumed from those women and licked them clean... i would be glad if i
could consume just one a day... some people try to tell me that it is a
health risk... as a result of you consuming... have you ever experienced
any ill effects as a result...
thank you for responding for i now know of another like me
toilet slave billy


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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 03:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: aehthex@magi.com (Lorraine Jobin)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: God/Goddess Worship
Message-Id: <199609130747.DAA24850@infoweb.magi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hello again:

I'm going to try this again, sorry if you get two copies: major server
problems!! Yesterday, I got some mail from the 11th. Today, I received
mail from the 10th and about 5 hours later, the 9th! Maybe the poem will be
in there somewhere! So, please do not send for now.

Thanks, L!

Hello everyone:

Would someone be so kind as to send me a copy of this poem? The mail server
was down and I did not receive any posting for the 9th & 10th. I must have
missed some interesting posts judging from the volume and callibre of
replies. Thanks!!


>Patricia wrote-
>
>Thank you for the beautiful and haunting poem...it is one of my favorites
>as well. Here is a class example of a woman who was squashed by
>patriarchy... I can understand and this is why I subscribe to this list
>and I am trying to raise my daughter with the high ideals I see here.
>I do not want her to have to struggle as we do and hope that by the time
>she is an adult, it will be more equal or at the very least much more
>supportive of women. If not, perhaps she will be another of the catalysts.
>
>Jet
>
>>and this is for Dee Ann and Laura and Jet and Sorceress and Leather and
>>all the wonderful and wonder-filled women on this list, and to the
>>hundreds of millions of women who have been wounded, scared, altered,
>>killed by Patriachy...and those millions who have survived and thrived
>>even within the half-life that Patriarchy has allowed them..each is my
>>sister..this is a gift of a favorite poem of mine that I identify with
>>totally.
>>
>>HER KIND, by Anne Sexton
>
>___________________________________________________________________
>Questions and comments should be sent to listmaster@renaissoft.com.
>For a list and description of supported mailing list commands, send
>mail to femsupremacy-request@renaissoft.com with the subject "help".
>
>
>

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:00:07 -0700
From: Noble
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: One likes, the other doesn't (Re: the ultimate
Message-ID: <3239AF37.29C6@tiac.net>
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I am an american DOMME who practises golden showers for many reasons.
The top reason being..it turns me on. But I also use it during
training...peeing all over new sub and making him lay in room with smell
of me all over him...stewing in my juices is part of his transferring
power to me. It is so animal...marking my territory. It is so holy,
baptism in goddess worship I call it. But smells are very important
and my sub should be marked with mine.

As to drinking it....I talked to several doctor friends of mine and they
assured me that urine is filled with proteins that are good, rather than
harmful. The idea of being honored in this manner is just a very big
turn on for me. Also one of the most aggravating things in the world is
having to get up in middle of night to go pee. having sub available at
foot of bed to receive it for me..keeps me warm in middle of night.
just call me a pratical woman.

Patricia

falcon@sbc.mwol.com wrote:
>
> FE>On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:44:55 -0400, Laura wrote:
>
> FE>> I know several other D/s couples where the husband is a toilet slave, and
> FE>>without exception it was always the guy's idea. These other wives and I
> FE>>give each other *the look* (you women know what I mean) when ever the topic
> FE>>comes up. We don't talk about despising the practice, or about the shame w
> FE>>feel for agreeing to it. The subs seem to think that we just glory in our
> FE>>power. They won't let themselves be aware of the pain this causes, because
> FE>>their obsession is so overwhelming.
>
> FE>I think that partly the problem is that there is a close loving
> FE>relationship and this makes it very difficult for the woman.
>
> FE>As a man who has had to pay a woman to feed me usually at the last
> FE>moment I am filled with disgust at my desires and I feel I must be
> FE>stupid to want to do such a thing. I have not paid excessive amounts
> FE>for the woman to feed me so I would think that the women who have done
> FE>it don't experience the revulsion that many women do. Quite often
> FE>another woman has watched the feeding and amazingly when two women are
> FE>together, rather than be embarrassed, they seem to enjoy it. They
> FE>don't usually try to end it as quickly as possible but have sometimes
> FE>literally rubbed my nose in it!
>
> FE>I don't think I could suggest this practice to someone I know because
> FE>of the embarrassment it would cause but I could understand how, if a
> FE>woman did it to me once, I would be moved to beg desperately for her
> FE>to do it again!
>
> FE>peter
>
> FE>Peter Saxton, from London
> FE>peter@psaxton.demon.co.uk
>
> enaissoft.com with the subject "help".
>
> hello peter
> i guess in the usa... it seems this country is sometimes obsessed with
> taboos... i would imagine in England or a lot of places in Europe...
> that there are more women that would enjoy using a toilet slave... i
> read in Club magazine years back exerpts from the diary of Bruno
> Kahlman... who had consumed from women... one account had me in complete
> envy... he was placed in a brothel for women in Holland... he performed
> IBS 8 times in one day... that is immaculate body service... where he
> consumed from those women and licked them clean... i would be glad if i
> could consume just one a day... some people try to tell me that it is a
> health risk... as a result of you consuming... have you ever experienced
> any ill effects as a result...
> thank you for responding for i now know of another like me
> toilet slave billy
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Questions and comments should be sent to listmaster@renaissoft.com.
> For a list and description of supported mailing list commands, send
> mail to femsupremacy-request@renaissoft.com with the subject "help".

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:10:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: aehthex@magi.com (Lorraine Jobin)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Delay In Messages
Message-Id: <199609131510.LAA21604@infoweb.magi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi gang:

Well, it seems that the problem is up here in Canada. I'm just getting
caught up with my e-mail. I just received this one from yesterday sent at
3:30 p.m. Apparently, the server I use, iSTAR, mysteriously ended up having
a read-protect code inserted into their system. No one received mail for 3
days. About 250 messages trickled in on and off yesterday, in reverse
order. Kept me up all night. I have now had a grand total of 7 hours since
Wednesday the 4th. Mentally, I'm doing fine, physically, I'm banging into
walls.
I miss my submate... Well, that's enough of that! What kind of a Dom am I?
Am I in control or what? Get some sleep, missy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, that was the problem with the e-mail. Barry, fiona and robert, you
should be getting all your mail now. We Canucks are on top of it!!!!! Haha!!

Have a good weekend all,

Lorraine


>> I've gotten no mail from FS since yesterday and I know some
>>folks have posted, including myself. Is the problem with the List or my
>>ISP? If anyone is getting FS messages, I would be very grateful if you
>>would e-mail me and let me know.

>>
>>Barry
>>
>>
>something's been a mess somewhere but we have no idea whether the
>problem is in Canada or with our provider Demon Internet who certainly
>have had problems.
>--
>fiona and robert forsythe
>
>___________________________________________________________________
>Questions and comments should be sent to listmaster@renaissoft.com.
>For a list and description of supported mailing list commands, send
>mail to femsupremacy-request@renaissoft.com with the subject "help".
>
>
>

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:22:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dee-Ann LeBlanc
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Delay In Messages
Message-Id: <199609131622.JAA00293@catherine.renaissoft.com>
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Lorraine Jobin wrote:
>
> Anyway, that was the problem with the e-mail. Barry, fiona and robert, you
> should be getting all your mail now. We Canucks are on top of it!!!!! Haha!!

Well, fortunately, the ISP I use isn't an iSTAR ISP, so the list has
been going on as usual. :) For those non-Canucks, iSTAR is a company
who has been buying up Canadian ISPs like they're candy.

Dee-Ann

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:40:55 GMT
From: Peter Saxton
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Is all S&M sexual?
Message-ID: <32387182.166769574@post.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:04:19 -0800, you wrote:

>Peter wrote...
>>
>>All I can say is that many times I have done things for women when I
>>knew that it would not lead to sex and sometimes I have done things
>>for women and felt very happy about doing them even though the woman
>>would not know that I had done them and so I could not even be
>>rewarded by them woman looking favourably towards me.
>
>
>
>Paint my house!
>
>Leather

You can't have seen my painting abilities. You'd have to be a
masochist to want me to paint your house! :-)

peter

Peter Saxton, from London
peter@psaxton.demon.co.uk


Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:53:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: aehthex@magi.com (Lorraine Jobin)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: One likes, the other doesn't (Re: the ultimate
Message-Id: <199609131853.OAA13617@infoweb.magi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

OH GODDESS, I love this list! As much as I miss my subfriend, I pick up my
e-mail and I - am - home!
Thanks Patricia, you've made my day! Hugs and kisses to all of you!

Today I will sign myself, sincerely,


Mistress Lorraine

Patricia wrote:

>I am an american DOMME who practises golden showers for many reasons.
>The top reason being..it turns me on. But I also use it during
>training...peeing all over new sub and making him lay in room with smell
>of me all over him...stewing in my juices is part of his transferring
>power to me. It is so animal...marking my territory. It is so holy,
>baptism in goddess worship I call it. But smells are very important
>and my sub should be marked with mine.
>
>As to drinking it....I talked to several doctor friends of mine and they
>assured me that urine is filled with proteins that are good, rather than
>harmful. The idea of being honored in this manner is just a very big
>turn on for me. Also one of the most aggravating things in the world is
>having to get up in middle of night to go pee. having sub available at
>foot of bed to receive it for me..keeps me warm in middle of night.
>just call me a pratical woman.
>
>Patricia


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From - Fri Sep 13 12:56:54 1996
>> Hmm... a quick trip to _Goddesses in World Mythology_ by Martha Ann &
>> Dorothy Myers Imel revealed a large number of African goddesses. The first
>> section is devoted entirely to them (excluding Egypt, which has its own
>> extensive section). I quit counting them around 100--which was still in the
>> "E" listings. Modern worshippers in Voudoun, Umbanda, etc. would be very
>> surprised to hear that God/dess worship was non-African!
>>
>> --Lady Phoenix
>
> I may be wrong then - I'll check it out. It was -my-
>understanding that the African 'Goddesses' would be more closely ascribed
>to the Nymphs of Greek mythology than the definition of a god or goddess
>as having dominion over an entire aspect of nature (-my- definition of a
>god or goddess as opposed to say a nymph, satyr, lamia et al. It
>generally works for me but may not be what someone else uses). I will see
>what I can find out.
> I'm completely unfamiliar with Umbanda, but I know modern Voudoun
>is a mixture of a number of african religions with christian overtones,
>at least to the best of my understanding. I only know a very few
>practicianers though (This is Indianapolis, not New Orleans - ) and
>I've found books on the subject notable for the number of times they
>contradict each other - .
> Jonnan
>
>

The African Goddesses seem (to me) similar to Goddesses in other
cultures--all the way from supreme diety/creator (Mawu, Nyame, Tamuno,
Woyengi, etc.) to dieties of specific aspects of nature (such as sea,
weather, moon, sun, stars, insects, and dieties of aspects of human life
(childbirth, fertility, death, education, agriculture, justice, etc.).

Umbanda is similar to Voudoun and comes via Brazil, along with Macumba and
Candomble. Santeria and Ifa are two more African-based syncretic religions.
All of these religions have pantheons that include powerful goddesses who
definitely have "dominion over an entire aspect of nature." One good example
is Yemanja-- "Goddess of Love and Sexuality, Water; Unhappiness; Mother and
Guardian. Goddess of saltwater and freshwater. She is the universal mother."
(from Goddesses in World Mythology)

I came across this on the Net:

"Every New Year's Eve, the wide beaches of Rio undergo an extraordinary
one-night
transformation, changing from pleasure grounds for devotees of sun and surf into
sanctuaries for believers in Umbanda, the city's largest spirit sect. As the
sun sets, millions of people come together on the sands to pay special
homage to the ruling divinity of the sea, Yemanja. Their prayers ask for
blessings in matters of love; oftentimes they are outright requests for
divine intervention. Gathered beside bonfires and candles, they swirl to the
mesmerizing beat of drums and chant hymns. The climactic moment comes at the
stroke of midnight when the worshippers rush to the water's edge and close
their prayers by casting a bouquet of roses into the sea.

I remember standing there at the edge of the ocean with Pia and the rest of
my family watching as millions of people, thousands of them women dressed in
flowing white gowns, tossed roses into the dark waters. The collective
desire to be loved was inspiring. The visual was simply breathtaking. There
was a moment of pious silence where all you could hear was the surf. The
faithful watched intently the flowers they had thrown, for if these flowers
returned to shore, that meant their prayers had fallen on deaf ears and the
new year would bring much heartache.

Pia was so taken by this moment that she commissioned a street artist to
capture it with paints. Now that painting hangs above our chimney.
Oftentimes I caught her looking at it. A look which said: if white gowns and
red roses are the means to speak to God, what splendor heaven must hold."

(http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~skypen/Pia/rio.html)

--Lady Phoenix

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femsupremacy-digest Digest Volume 96 : Issue 16

Today's Topics:
Re: Advise please
Re: Advise please
Re: more goddesses
Re: more goddesses
Doing all the things that need to be done
Correction to the correction
Re: God/Goddess Worship
Re: Advise please
Re: Egalitarian vs Femsupremacy
Re: God/Goddess Worship
Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
Re: Doing all the things that need to be done
Re: Advise please

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:29:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Chase Vogelsberg"
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
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Patricia wrote:
>This feels like a plea for attention...oh please Jonnan stay..I don't
>play that game anymore and will not be manipulated into it at this late
>stage. Stay if you really want to learn...I certainly have spent much
>time getting information to help you understand. If you just want to be
>the winner of a debate...lurk..delurk..whatever.

Ah, felt like a plea for attention to you? Sounded more like someone just
a little bemused by the extremes of 'attention' he was already getting -
not to mention the extremes of vitriol accompanying it. For instance, he
wrote and mentioned some historical atrocities, and

SOMEONE replied:
>don't patronize me with you college education....I have one too.

As though if a man using words with more than two syllables is a sign
that he's attempting to impress with his knowledge. Or, being attacked
with :

>I never mentioned NASA..you did. Our research money did not come from
>NASA...or the Military Budget....just like a man putting his words in my
>mouth and then attacking me for using them.

Same person had written:
>It is the difference between the slash and burn mentality that has so
>shamelessly despoiled our mother the earth who are now spending billions
>on space flight and terraforming..coming up with real scientific ways to
>make Mars habitable for humans after we have nothing left on Earth.

Specific enough to space exploration / colonization to be pretty easy to
see where he presumed NASA was being discussed, and not DOD / Military.
But somehow he's being just like a man and putting words in someone's
mouth.

Jonnan was quoted:
> The Terror was noted for the female involvement,
> which may -imply- that there was little female involvement in the
> protestant catholic wars and the accusations during the inquisition.

And again, virulent reaction:
>Women did not design the manifestos or the systems to impose these
>regimes. God, here we go with the damned if we do damned if we don't
>stuff. Of course women were involved...we live under the same
>patriarchal system...we follow the boys or die, many of us die.

"Damned if we do, damned if we don't", as though Jonnan was somehow out
to -blame- women for such things. And as though a lot of 'the boys'
weren't in the same situation - when the rulers started something, the
men could either follow or die, same's the women. Sorry, but with the
Holocaust, with other moral outrages, people, male -or- female, have a
choice to make. A lot of good people, female -and- male, decided that
they'd rather die than commit atrocities, or actively opposed them. Not
nearly enough - but it seems that male or female, most people are just a
little bit unwilling to die. Fancy that.

Y'know, I wish I hadn't cleaned out the mailbox a bit - there's been an
-awful- lot of reactionary flaming going on, often in the same breath as
talk about tolerance and respect for other people's beliefs. Myself, I'm
a rabid atheist, and often speak out against Xians, as Spirit Wind has
noticed, I'm sure. But it's odd that the -most- intolerant, disrespectful
thing said of late, "Fuck Christ" and more to that effect, came from the
same woman who asks for people to show some respect for her different be-
liefs, speaks of how with women it's more tolerant, that she hadn't been
aware that this was a "defend christianity" mailing list, etc.

Well, I've been here a while, an' I thought I was on a mail list that was
in the business of discussing, among other things, ways to help empower
women, discuss how the feminine principle could be promoted in government,
business and society, and such like. Not the "bash-men/flame-others-
religions/make-men-eat-scat" list, which it lately seems like its becoming.

Feh. I'm gonna return to lurking, an' no, this isn't a plea for
attention, just a matter of me having said my piece. This is, and should
be, Woman's Space, and I don't intend to start disrupting that. But blood
an' bone, I wasn't going to keep quiet about something I felt was wrong,
either. THat's what happened in nazi Germany, remember?

-- \_awless is : A wolf, wild at heart, with a heart of darkness.
-- Chase Vogelsberg (lawless@netcom.com / lawless@eskimo.com)
--
-- The trouble with hell is that the ambient temperature is above the flash
-- point of alcohol. Which means you can't linger over your drink.
-- Alexis A Gilliland

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:42:39 -0700
From: Noble
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
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Patricia responds:
your response is vitriolic and not mine...congrats...ah male bonding.
I mentioned nothing about men being shit. It was men on this list who
kept on correcting women for not be specific. I did not mention NASA.
If you had jumped to the defense of the women on this list who were
being attacked for not reading the correct words that one of these men
said, I would be more impressed with you fairness. I will not jump to
your nazi bait...I am not a nazi,, I work for no money defending peoples
rights to housing and fair wages...I have all my life.

that is a giant flame implying I am Nazi because I am strong,
intelligent woman....but you know what...I have better fish to fry then
waste my time with this pointless talking to any of you men anymore...

Patricia
Chase Vogelsberg wrote:
-
> not to mention the extremes of vitriol accompanying it.

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:23:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: pgm@servtech.com
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: more goddesses
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At 09:33 PM 9/11/96 -0700, Patricia wrote:
>and Joseph Campbell muses:
>Full circle, from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come:
>an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is
>soon to melt from us, like the substance of a dream...
>Men through their recorded history in myth, religion and folklore seek
>to be the hero .. and in all these recorded events and myths they say
>ultimately that the hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But
>submission to what...asks Joseph Campbell in the Hero with a thousand
>Faces.....the women on this list would answer...I think, many of
>us...submission to the feminine..the female..the life principle.

Hey, we have another Campbell fan on the list..coolness. Campbell was
pretty insightful...for a guy ;) And you made an interesting connection
between hero submission and the female principle. To me, this is what it's
all about...molding/improving myself (perhaps even to hero status, but that
seems unlikely) so that I can serve and assist the female principle more
effectively.

To continue Joseph's quote:

"Submission of what?
That is the primary virtue and deed of the hero to resolve."


Sorry for the interruption....you may all return to the intellectual p*ssing
contest/flame thing now.... Warm regards, Paul/mp

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:30:14 -0700
From: Noble
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: more goddesses
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Well sometimes intelligent and sometimes not but to you maidpaula and to
all my sisters on this list my wish is
FOLLOW YOUR BLISS
Patricia
pgm@servtech.com wrote:
>
> At 09:33 PM 9/11/96 -0700, Patricia wrote:
> >and Joseph Campbell muses:
> >Full circle, from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come:
> >an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is
> >soon to melt from us, like the substance of a dream...
> >Men through their recorded history in myth, religion and folklore seek
> >to be the hero .. and in all these recorded events and myths they say
> >ultimately that the hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But
> >submission to what...asks Joseph Campbell in the Hero with a thousand
> >Faces.....the women on this list would answer...I think, many of
> >us...submission to the feminine..the female..the life principle.
>
> Hey, we have another Campbell fan on the list..coolness. Campbell was
> pretty insightful...for a guy ;) And you made an interesting connection
> between hero submission and the female principle. To me, this is what it's
> all about...molding/improving myself (perhaps even to hero status, but that
> seems unlikely) so that I can serve and assist the female principle more
> effectively.
>
> To continue Joseph's quote:
>
> "Submission of what?
> That is the primary virtue and deed of the hero to resolve."
>
> Sorry for the interruption....you may all return to the intellectual p*ssing
> contest/flame thing now.... Warm regards, Paul/mp
>
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: jet@nwlink.com (jet)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Doing all the things that need to be done
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peter--

>I don't think that men think about it that deeply even when they do
>try to make it difficult for women.

Probably not as most seem to mindlessly go through life instead of
mindfully. I mean most people, not just men, which is why women
have such a hard time getting a stronghold in patriarchal society,
and it would probably be the same in a matriarchal society. Remember
Phyllis Schaffley (I think that was her name).

>One of the main reasons why more women don't reach positions of power
>is they tend to spread themselves too thinly while men tend to
>concentrate on a subject and ignore other things.

This is true...that's why women need subs/slaves to do the things
that usually take up time when we could be doing things that help
promote Female Supremacy.

>Although I agree that women are superior to men I can't imagine how
>the world will develop. Will it just be like today but with as many
>women in positions of power as men are now and more men will have the
>lowly jobs .... or will society grant women some institutionalised
>power? My guess is the former.

I think that society will grant men some institutionalized power, myself.
:)

Jet

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:10:12 -0800
From: leather@zephyr.net (leather)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Correction to the correction
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I, personally, feel that Chase is out of line attempting to set Patricia
straight. She is obviously a highly intellegent and opinionated Supreme
Female and it is "quite like a man" to attempt to squelch that. If she had
truly been *that* far out of line... don't you think our FS moderator would
be more suited to address that issue than you?

I'm definately new to this list but not to FS. It made no sense to Me for
you to take this path, Chase. If you think *I* am out of line... spare Me
your correction. BTW, this is not intended as a "flame." You may, however,
assume that this is one Supreme Female setting forth an observation.

Leather

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:35:58 -0500
From: kriv@interlog.com (peter)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: God/Goddess Worship
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Leather, would you please give some general idea of how you teach your sons
the concepts of FS?
Thank you
Peter>
>
>
>I have two teenage sons. Teaching them the concepts of FS has not been
>easy. Society teaches them something different (men have "the" power)... it
>is a struggle for them to choose not to buy into it.
>
>As a girl, I would have chosen FS was an option instead of resign to
>females finding a man and cleaving (in submission) to him. Ack!!! Thank
>Goddess I grew up and discovered My own truths! I'd hate to have died early
>and ignorant... never having known the pleasure of My "own" power!
>
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:36:48 -0500
From: kriv@interlog.com (peter)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
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To add to Patricia:
Jonnan, you're not going to win. The women on this list are just too strong
for you. They're either going to like what you say, or not like what you
say. And they'll let you know.

What you do is entirely up to you. You can stay on this list and enjoy some
postings, trash others you find boring, respond to others, whatever. But,
whatever you do, be polite.

Nobody is forcing you to stay.
Peter>
>
>
>This feels like a plea for attention...oh please Jonnan stay..I don't
>play that game anymore and will not be manipulated into it at this late
>stage. Stay if you really want to learn...I certainly have spent much
>time getting information to help you understand. If you just want to be
>the winner of a debate...lurk..delurk..whatever. You seem to be under
>the impression that the books have told you everything. but the books
>are written under a patriarchal system that only rewards those who
>uphold the system...you seem to have difficulty understanding that basic
>premise.
>Patricia
>
>
>(deleted alot)
>
>> Jonnan West wrote:
>>
>>
>> > At any rate, it's not a level of decorum I can trust myself -to-
>> > hold to, and I therefore need a (consensus is not quite the right term,
>> > but I can't think of anything better) from those with a long-term
>> > understanding of the nature of debate on this mailing list.
>
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:40:48 GMT
From: Peter Saxton
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Egalitarian vs Femsupremacy
Message-ID: <32386891.164480263@post.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:51:39 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Peter Saxton wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:45:03 -0400, Laura wrote:
>
>> >Here's some scat-logic for literal types:
>
>> >Everything that women produce is shit
>> >Women produce males
>> >Therefore males are shit! ;)
>
>> Don't women produce females, too?
>
>That's a _reductio_, Peter. It's how I got into trouble in the first
>place.
>
Sorry, I better quickly crawl away! :-)

peter

Peter Saxton, from London
peter@psaxton.demon.co.uk

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:45:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: aehthex@magi.com (Lorraine Jobin)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: God/Goddess Worship
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Hello everyone:

Would someone be so kind as to send me a copy of this poem? The mail server
was down and I did not receive any posting for the 9th & 10th. I must have
missed some interesting posts judging from the volume and callibre of
replies. Thanks!!


>Patricia wrote-
>
>Thank you for the beautiful and haunting poem...it is one of my favorites
>as well. Here is a class example of a woman who was squashed by
>patriarchy... I can understand and this is why I subscribe to this list
>and I am trying to raise my daughter with the high ideals I see here.
>I do not want her to have to struggle as we do and hope that by the time
>she is an adult, it will be more equal or at the very least much more
>supportive of women. If not, perhaps she will be another of the catalysts.
>
>Jet
>
>>and this is for Dee Ann and Laura and Jet and Sorceress and Leather and
>>all the wonderful and wonder-filled women on this list, and to the
>>hundreds of millions of women who have been wounded, scared, altered,
>>killed by Patriachy...and those millions who have survived and thrived
>>even within the half-life that Patriarchy has allowed them..each is my
>>sister..this is a gift of a favorite poem of mine that I identify with
>>totally.
>>
>>HER KIND, by Anne Sexton
>
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:34:37 -0700
From: jnbry@ix.netcom.com
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
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This is more or less responsive to the surrender/bliss thread but mainly its
just something I want to say.

Since human history began, people (particularly men?) have "submitted", in
the realest sense of the word, to causes and beliefs. There is an innate
desire to be a part of something larger -- a nation, religion, a political
movement, a business organization. The heroic by definition is the single
individual suffering for some larger and nobler cause.

This sacrifice of individuals to find purpose and direction from a variety
of external higher sources is something almost everyone accepts.

Growing up in a fundamentalist rural church, there was nothing out of the
ordinary to see some burly farmer weeping openly as he walked down the aisle
in front of family and friends to repent of real or imagined sins whilst the
congregation banged out yet another chorus of "Just as I Am" just in case he
had somehow forgotten what a "wretch" he truely was.

We all understood his need to beg for forgiveness and mercy. His worship of
a being that he had never seen and which may or may not exist was "normal",
even if taken to extremes. The emotional catharsis of his act of submission
to the devine was *powerful* and he left the experience feeling clean and
renewed.

About a year ago, I began to worship the special woman who now rules my
life. I loved her before, but now I love, honor and obey her. I am at her
feet, both figuratively and literally, every day. There is nothing mystical
about this, but the feeling of only being complete when I submit to her is
more fulfilling than anything else I have found.

My wife won't ever walk on water or turn water into wine. She does not know
the eternal secrets of life. She is a flawed human being, as are we all.

Nontheless, I prefer to invest my devotion in a flawed human being that I
can touch and serve and love. It is the only thing I have found in this
life that is akin to an honest religious experience.

For *her*, I would go on any crusade even if all she usually asks of me is
that I clean the kitchen.


Jim

PS: I'm not saying others aren't honest in their religion; in fact, my wife
is as religious as I am agnostic. Just before she packs our three boys into
the minivan to take them to church sunday morning she always gives me
instructions as to what to do while she is gone. I think it is a way cool
contrast.

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:36:13 GMT
From: Peter Saxton
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Doing all the things that need to be done
Message-ID: <32388a86.173174826@post.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT), Jet wrote:

>peter--
>
>>One of the main reasons why more women don't reach positions of power
>>is they tend to spread themselves too thinly while men tend to
>>concentrate on a subject and ignore other things.
>
>This is true...that's why women need subs/slaves to do the things
>that usually take up time when we could be doing things that help
>promote Female Supremacy.
>
Most of my girlfriends have not been feminists never mind female
supremacists and I would never dare announce that I was submissive to
women for fear of being thought a weirdo! My way would be more subtle,
getting a woman drinks, massaging her feet, offering to do the
shopping, washing up, cleaning, etc. I can't think of one woman who
didn't accept the situation and didn't take full advantage of it. I
think most people believe in equality at work and I'm sure that
practically all women would go along with female supremacy at home but
I don't see how the majority of men are going to be convinced unless
women insist on the equality of their children.

>>Although I agree that women are superior to men I can't imagine how
>>the world will develop. Will it just be like today but with as many
>>women in positions of power as men are now and more men will have the
>>lowly jobs .... or will society grant women some institutionalised
>>power? My guess is the former.
>
>I think that society will grant men some institutionalized power, myself.
>:)
>
>Jet
>
I promise I didn't mean it the way it sounded! :-)

peter

Peter Saxton, from London
peter@psaxton.demon.co.uk

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:40:50 GMT
From: Peter Saxton
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
Message-ID: <323869f0.164831084@post.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 02:42:10 -0500 (EST), Jonnan wrote:

> Okay. This is a Femsupremacy mailing list. I -knew- this was a
>Femsupremacy mailing list when I saw it on the sight I found it on, I
>knew I was distinctly -not- definable as a Femsupremist, before I joined
>and I up and joined anyway, read several days worth of mail to get the
>general 'flavor' of the discourse, saw an intelligent group of people
>debating an interesting philosophy (albeit one I disagreed with on a
>number of levels) and wanted to know the rationale behind the philosophy.
>
> I posted a long, fairly involved letter, and have gotten a great
>deal from the responses to that letter, positive and negative, and have
>attempted to follow the threads resulting from it to the best of my
>ability. Some of the areas I -thought- I knew fairly well, I obviously
>need more education in but even -that- information is not information I
>would have had had I not involved myself. Some other areas I believe I
>made valid points in, and -hopefully- explained -my- rationale and
>assumptions fairly well.
>
> However I have evidently -not- been as polite in my debate as I
>would have hoped, and have severely offended at least one person and
>noted that at least two others evidently feel me to be a disruptive
>influence whose presence would not be missed. If I felt my writing skills
>and ability to communicate were up to the task of maintaining a higher
>level of decorum on a consistent basis, I might simply refrain from
>posting unless I could consistently maintain such a level of decorum. I
>will confess I didn't see that such a level was necessary, but, a guest
>in my home is not permitted the same level of familiarity as someone whom
>I have supped with for years, and I -am- the interloper who barged in
>requesting the secrets of the universe in small, easy-to-handle pieces,
>so perhaps it is a level that -I- need to be held to, if I am to debate
>on a list from an essentially contradictory viewpoint.
>
> So the question becomes, do I, as an person already announced to
>be in conflict on some levels with the espoused views of those on this
>mailing list, have a right or a need to remain on this list against the
>notable objections of members in good standing who feel that there is a
>certain basic assumption that, females or feminine qualities, however
>defined, are intrinsically superior to males or masculine qualities, that
>should be shared by anyone actively participating in discourse on this
>list, and that those who are -not- in alignment with that assumption,
>should debate their philosophy elsewhere.
>
I would think it very difficult for someone who doesn't believe in the
superiority of females to contribute positively to this list over any
length of time.

I may not agree with many things said but I think your "heart needs to
be in the right place" if the list is going to be useful.

I am not the kind of person that can develop by just reading other
people's opinions - I need to contribute. I also accept that there are
many people on the list who have thought about the subjects discussed
much more deeply than I have and therefore my comments may be stupid,
inappropriate, boring or wrong! But not all the time! :-)

If I am criticised I can usually understand the other persons point of
view and consider my comments again. Even if I find I still disagree
it has at least helped to reinforce my views so I would still
appreciate the comment and treat the person with respect.

At this early stage I am still a bit of an embarrassment but I think
in time I will make a great improvement but I still believe that
fundamentally you should be a believer in female supremacy.

peter

Peter Saxton, from London
peter@psaxton.demon.co.uk

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femsupremacy-digest Digest Volume 96 : Issue 18

Today's Topics:
Re: Advise please
Re: Advise please
Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
Re: Advise please
Re: Advise please
Re: Surrender & Bliss 1 more time
Re: God/Goddess Worship
Re: Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
Re: Delay In Messages
Re: Egalitarian vs Femsupremacy
Room on that Broomstick ?
Re: Delay In Messages
Re: Advise please
Re: Doing all the things that need to be done
Re: Advise please

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:27:43 -0400
From: Laura Goodwin
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960913132743.006a4f04@popd.ix.netcom.com>
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At 01:42 PM 9/12/96 -0700, Noble wrote:
>Patricia responds:

>I mentioned nothing about men being shit.

Actually shit came up as a topic because a sub male on the list wanted to
bare his breast about his fetish for eating it, some other sub male praised
the practice, I published my ambivalent tale of love and disgust, and later
a silly little syllogism. As far as I know, there been no other discussion
on that pungent topic, and my hubby wishes you all would get on the ball!
He was kind of hoping that *somebody* here would somehow make it all OK for
me. ;)

Laura Goodwin


"All forms of fanaticism are suspect. The humane society
of the future, which we now build, will appreciate diversity
and reward tolerant behavior."

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:05:12 +0100
From: robert and fiona forsythe
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
Message-ID:

In message <2.2.32.19960913132756.006b62c8@popd.ix.netcom.com>, Laura
Goodwin writes
>
>"CAN THAT NOISE, OR YOU ARE OUT OF HERE!"
>
>If you are allowed in at all, it should be with the understanding that you
>will respect us and not interfere with us. If you do not do this, and are
>not ejected, it reflects poorly on the group and especially the group's
>leadership. The longer disruptive and non-supportive behavior is allowed on
>this list, the more it looks like femsupremacy is a bunch of hooey. I, for
>one, do not intend to let anybody think that.
>
>Laura Goodwin
>
>
>"All forms of fanaticism are suspect. The humane society
>of the future, which we now build, will appreciate diversity
>and reward tolerant behavior."
>
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Hey, hey, this is getting too serious,

how does Jonnan show disrespect?
how does Jonnan disrupt?

the mite has asked questions, some challenging, some a bit verbose,
maybe some might grate with some characters, maybe he has some learning
to do,

but it reads very strange to our eyes to read what Jonnan has said, the
poor guy even opens his bowels to grovel about whether he should be here
in the first place, then to read what you say in your main post Laura
AND then to read whatever it is called that follows your signature (not
being catty, it is our lack of technical knowhow). You used the idea of
a religious service, but this is not a ritual service it is a discussion
group.

Laura, please look at it all from another planet where perhaps they had
never heard of gender, a lovely place full of andrognynous rubber clad
happy creatures free from threat,
we think those viewers, given that they also had the rational brains we
all have, might find something of a tension between your clarion call to
presumably boot Jonnan and those final three lines.

Jonnan seems to us nowhere near a Tony. Yes, we go along with the idea
that we were well rid of him, but before too long if the consensus is
that the arrival of folk like Jonnan cannot be coped with, enjoyed and
disagreed with if you wish, if instead it brings out the "this is
private and our territory", we will probably both quietly go. Actually
this is, for bad or good, a very public list, all you do is press a
button and you're there, there is as yet no entry exam marked by Dee-
Ann! There is a call to be sympathetic and respectful of participants
and the varied beliefs many have in fs. We say again what has Jonnan
said that is just so OTT? And if at any stage he came near to ever being
a touch rude, as Chase reminded us all, that tendency may have been two
way.
--
fiona and robert forsythe

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Date: 13 Sep 96 16:20:34 EDT
From: OhEadhra <101342.2030@CompuServe.COM>
To: FS
Subject: Surrender/bliss: A religious experience?
Message-ID: <960913202033_101342.2030_GHW96-1@CompuServe.COM>

Jim wrote :
>Nonetheless, I prefer to invest my devotion in a flawed human being that I
>can touch and serve and love. It is the only thing I have found in this
>life that is akin to an honest religious experience.

Totally correct !! From the age of 5, I lost interest in religion - from the
age of 13 I adored women. Laura, as usual, hit the nail on the head -
men worship women, and leave the spiritual aspects to women - suits me!

Dennis (t.o.m)


She wears chains of bondage
She wears the wings of hope
She wears the gown of plenty
and still its hard to cope

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: aehthex@magi.com (Lorraine Jobin)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
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Hello Laura:

A couple of years ago, subbie was lying on the floor next to the bed
like the good little doggie he is, when suddenly he said: "Mistress, I
would eat or drink anything that came from you. I would eat your shit,
drink your piss...", yadda yadda yadda. I thought it was just his bizarre
way of endearing himself to me. Boy, was I green. You can just imagine how
freaked out I was when I realized he meant it literally! Well, a couple of
months ago, he was coming to Ottawa for a visit, so I thought I would
surprise him and buy him a double doggie dish and leave it on the bathroom
floor. I had not anticipated his response. He was floored (teehee)! I was
grossed out. After bugging me and bugging me, I obliged, but just a little
bit. The only reason I was able to do it was because I was upset at him
about something (not the way I like to conduct business, thank you very
much), and made it a punishment. That was the only way I could do it and so
far, that is the only time. I have no problem with urine or any other
bodily fluid. But I just can't cottonelle to that one! In my case, it
isn't that I would not do it again for him. I love him and would fulfill
just about any of his needs. All I want to know is -WHY? Why that?! He
doesn't know.

He lived in Holland for a few years and from what he has told me, the girls
he met over there have absolutely no qualms about it. He told me about
these nightclubs where men pay to lie under the toilet so that women can pee
and shit on them. I don't care where he's been, but I'm not so sure I could
oblige him all the time now. Not so much that I don't want to -just why?
It really is a filthy hangup --

Maybe billy or peter or someone could enlighten (?) me, maybe by private
e-mail, but I don't mind sharing. We seem to be getting just a wee bit off
the fs topic and I don't want to offend anybody.

Sorry Bruce, I'm with Laura -

Mistress Lorraine


Laura wrote:

>Actually shit came up as a topic because a sub male on the list wanted to
>bare his breast about his fetish for eating it, some other sub male praised
>the practice, I published my ambivalent tale of love and disgust, and later
>a silly little syllogism. As far as I know, there been no other discussion
>on that pungent topic, and my hubby wishes you all would get on the ball!
>He was kind of hoping that *somebody* here would somehow make it all OK for
>me. ;)
>
>Laura Goodwin
>

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: amfas@netcom.com (Coyote Sings)
To: femsupremacy@renaissoft.com
Subject: Re: Advise please
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>
> Sorry Bruce, I'm with Laura -
>
> Mistress Lorraine
>
me, too, if anyone were to ask.

BUT

as squicked as I am for both aesthetic reasons and because of the
year spent living with my bother's HIV-laced shit, I still would support
having the discussion here for those for whom it might be important.

Though we should always be respectful of one another and stay more or less
on-topic, it seems that this should be a safe place to discuss any aspect
of FS or related topics and events. ^^^^ ^^^
My own line would be drawn at the ab-use of children or animals, but nowhere
else.

Jonnan: Welcome. Think terse, polish your thoughts, heed your Betters in
their space (perhaps better than I have learned to do). And enjoy. :)

Everyone: be careful out there.

c.s.

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Date: 13 Sep 96 18:43:02 EDT
From: Jon Woolven <100410.1764@CompuServe.COM>
To: "INTERNET:femsupremacy@renaissoft.com"
Subject: Re: Surrender & Bliss 1 more time
Message-ID: <960913224302_100410.1764_JHU110-1@CompuServe.COM>

>From me:

>Kalika says if only more men were prepared to surrender. From my
>perspective, if only there were more Kalikas who would appreciate male
>surrender.

>From Kalika:
>Why Jon, I'll take that as a nice compliment .

>From me again:

Thank you Kalika, it was certainly meant that way. There are some people you
instantly warm to, even in an Email world, and you were one of those
from your very first message. Incidentally, Kalika is a wonderful name.

I nearly included something about BDSM relationships in my original reply, but
I edited it out because I'm worried about the volume on this list. It's
exciting to
see the community growing, but how much traffic can we sustain? My mailing
service freezes at 100 messages, so if I can't access the list in three days, I
lose
messages. I suspect we'll reach crisis point soon and may need to split into
sub communities.

[Incidentally to Jonnan - if you're a student, shouldn't you knuckle down to
studying
some time, unless perhaps you're on such an enlightened course as Post
Patriarchal
Studies?
If you're still trying to explore the logic behind Female Supremacy, consider
the
impact of male and female hormones. Male hormones were valuable when there
were aggressive environments that had to be tamed, but what is their value now?
Why
are criminals predominantly male? Why is domestic violence predominantly male?
Which gender provides the main source of aggresion and where might this lead if
not curtailed?]

So Kalika, I fully agree with what you say about BDSM relationships.
What goes on below the surface is very complex and subtle and in my experience
genuine Female Dominants are usually exceptionally considerate and unselfish.
However, they appear to be few and far between and so my chances of forming a
relationship with an enlightened Kalika are, I suspect, remote. I do believe
there
are many latent female dominants and so I welcome any contribution our
community might make to helping more women find such
fulfillment (okay, I admit, there may be some self-interest in there too).

However, I currently enjoy a very balanced relationship with a wonderful,
intelligent,
simultaneously assertive yet vulnerable woman. BDSM will surely always be a
minority
pursuit and so if we are to build a practical blueprint for a better world we
must extend
our philosophies to the mainstream. That was the sprit behind my message.
Surrender
is a minority pursuit. How can we encourage an harmonious, sustainable,
relationship
between the sexes amongst the mass population?

If I ever figure that out, I promise to let you all know!

Regards

Jon


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