The argument for the gender divide

I read a super-fascinating article today, just by accident, while looking for some information about the practices and beliefs of Gnosticism. Specifically, I was wondering why choice and reason is so frowned upon by Evangelicals, and other fundamentalists and scriptural legalists, to the point of being considered heretical. And boy, did I find it! It stems from a fear of "gnosis"... knowledge. Egads! Not knowledge! That's the devil's work! You know things, and then you start thinking independently, and you know we can't have any of that sort of nonsense. Remember, there was this tree...?

Anyway...

Anglican view of the "Neo-Gnosticism" of Carl Jung

In it, I was quite surprised, is a fairly well written and convincing treatise making Carl Jung appear to be the singular source responsible for the brand of immorality known as hedonism that plagues modern Christianity, and also quite mad. Even Freud thought he was mad, apparently, and that's saying quite a lot. I had never really considered that Jung would be blamed for the destabilizing of western civilization! What a bad man, trying to reconcile the polarity of the genders. How relentlessly stupid of people to think there might be something to his theories of spiritual reconciliation.

Basically, the evangelical wing of the Anglican church is attempting to present Jung as a cult leader for advocating the very ancient notion of dualism and self-knowledge found in almost every spiritual practice in the world, since the history of man.... except for Christianity of course, which strictly condemns any sort of dualism as an indulgence of evil. 

The article in question, of course, calls for Anglicans to return to the good ol' days of strict adherence to authentically biblical masculinity and femininity, and traditional marriage roles. What a shocker (yawn). And lo, what a surprise, it coincides so nicely with the recent insurgence of Evangelicals and MRA adherents into the public forum, reminding us to stay inside those boxes, for our own good.

Anyway, while falling down the rabbit hole in pursuit of interconnections, as I am prone to do, I found links between Gnosticism and so many other fascinating things! - Free will, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, Plato, the Age of Enlightenment, Libertarianism, Locke, Free Love (this is soooo interesting!), and the puritanical belief in America as the site of the New Jerusalem mentioned in the Book of Revelations.

This mess is going to take a while for me to sort out... It kind of brings me back to the rush I had in my liberal arts collegiate period though, a weird high of academia-fueled spiritual adrenaline/nausea combination.

"Ah, the heady days of space piracy."

Tech support

Anyone reading this, I'm dying for some technical advice for this page. I need to know how to make two separate, postable pages - one for recipes etc. and one for other thoughts. I've figured out how to make a second page, and get the page index on the home page, but the 2nd page isn't actual posts, just comments. Plus I want to take the recipes that are already on the home page, and transfer them over to the recipe page, without having to re-write the whole darn thing.

How dare she??

That woman who is using my name
Well, I never.

Much to my surprise, I find that some other so-called "Cheryl" has started up a blogger page called Cheryl's Test Kitchen (that was mine!), where she is posting recipes and commentary. Perhaps rather than posting my own, I will just link to her page and let people think we are the same person. I was planning to change the name of this site anyway, since its becoming less and less about recipes, and more about other things that go down in my kitchen. And other kitchens.

Just theorizing about housework

I was reading Cinzia La Strega's article about housekeeping, always a topic of hot contention in gender-based commentary. Since it seems to be impossible for me to post comments on her site, I thought I'd take this topic up on my own. Cinzia's take on it is that women, even high-powered ones, still hold on to their household responsibilities is "because they don't really want to forfeit their "traditional feminine" roles." 

I've always had a different theory about working women who still do the lion’s share of the housekeeping work. There could be some aspect of adherence to tradition in their minds, but I chalk it up to a difference between the sexes – but not in the same "evo-psych" way that the MRA and fundamentalist crowds rationalize female subordination. Allow me to elucidate...

The Blog of Cinzia La Strega : Tears of a Clown

The tragicomedy that is the manosphere, as articulated by Cinzia La Strega



The Blog of Cinzia La Strega : Tears of a Clown: Reading between the lines of Roosh's post today ("Men Are Nothing More Than Clowns to the Modern Woman"), I'm guessing so...

"Manosphere" support group

As most of my friends are already too aware, I spend a good deal of time discussing the finer points of the men's rights movement with people who are, well, somewhat less than agreeable. Admittedly, it does make me a little bit nutso sometimes, but I think this issue is of such importance for the future of the world that I think my sanity is worth challenging for the love of reason!

At any rate, I have been searching for an online support community of sympathetic and intelligent folks of all gender-persuasions, and finally found one!

http://rooshnme.blogspot.ca/

Cinzia La Strega is also an exceptionally good writer, somehow simultaneously sympathetic, funny, critical, and intelligent. Even if her articles weren't so dear to my heart, I would still want to read her work.

The amazingly positive power of family dinner

Yeh, so I'm admittedly kind of a luddite when it comes to this tech blogging linkback mystery of computer-savviness, I'm working on it slowly but its a major obstacle given how far behind the curve I am.

I'm going to try to re-post a link to one of my favorite sites which covers every nuance of wonderful that I occupy my time thinking about. If you have any recommendations or aid to help me be better at making this page more inviting or graphically impressive, I eagerly await your feedback.

The Art of Manliness - The amazingly positive power of family dinner

This kitchen layout is perfect for dinner parties!

I'm a single woman, and very happily so, but even so I consider my close friends to be part of my protective community circle, and make a point to have group dinners as often as I can. In fact, I have designed the kitchen layouts in my home renovations to specifically accommodate dinner parties! There is nothing in this world that enhances bonding like food. And since this blog originated with a focus on food, this post seemed relevant! As Brett and Kate, its authors, note, even the extremely busy President of the United States makes time for his family dinner his priority (damn communist!), so you can to.