To: K-list
Recieved: 2000/06/26 02:11
Subject: Re: [K-list] Beyond Abuse *long*
From: v
On 2000/06/26 02:11, v posted thus to the K-list:
Anymore the British "stiff upper lip" is being adapted by people
everywhere, because of the media. Everyone wants to be Rambo, to show no
weaknesses, no humanity. The women are patterned to be slim & perfect,
if not quite so weak as before, as they give them guns & karate lessons.
The British are more popularized, but I observe that Americans &
other westernized countries also impose a stigma against showing any
feelings. The ones who do are given a label: "Bionic Wimp" - or more
realistically "Schizophrenic", "Bipolar Disorder", "Freak Against
Nature". All opinions & observations that rub against the CNN &/or MTV
values are touted as "dysfunctional".
There's no escape anymore.
In the olden days, sensitive people were cherished & had their
esteemed places in society. Nowadays they are lucky if eligible for FOOD
STAMPS.
Are our societies better than the others before ours, really? Times
have always been oppressive, but nowdays the targets are people who care
too much, humanitarians whose niceness is taken for a weakness.
I think that NOT being able to cry deprives us of a major healing
process. We are one-world, on an ever-shrinking planet.
I hope we are all healing together.
valerie
Lynda wrote:
>
> Oh what a strange world we live in. I admire people who can cry, I find it
> so hard. I wimped out of publicly sharing the reply to the poll, just not
> ready and certainly not that courageous - yet. I know why I find it hard to
> cry, conditioned respose. The adults around me as I was growing found the
> appearance of tears an affront to the British 'stiff uper lip', to show any
> feelings was seen as some sort of failure of moral fiber. To let a tear fall
> was the occaision of being given something to cry for, a beating. And the
> strikes would continue until the tears stopped. But knowing why it's hard to
> cry dosen't make it any easier. Now when a memory surfaces I try hard to
> hold and comfort my younger self and cry the tears that belong to a previous
> time, sort of like catching up. So I wrap my arms around myself, and rock
> myself gently and weep what feels like an unshed ocean and pray for healing.
> And I salute all who ever and where ever and when ever find themselves doing
> the same.
> With love
> Lynda
>
> A circle is the longest distance to the same point. - Tom Stoppard.
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