Sunday, July 8, 2007
ET TU MON-EY AGAIN?
I think i need to go within again,cause there are a lot of happenings here at the (LESBIAN HOUSE DINING-in wimmin-only-space, that are causing me great concern. Since the woman with the money came everyone seem to be running after her for some sort of approval. I am beginning to wonder if i feel distance from her because of the way she presents herself with money. Or is it i am upset because i don't have the obvious green stuff called money that she seems to have? or is it i really see how she uses money as some sort of power stick? I don't really know what it is, i do know that my feelings are really beginning to get stronger and i am feeling a bit uncomfortable in this setting now. Well i am from the school of face it so i think it is time for me to say something,but what? So i started with asking the woman if she had a lotta money? She asked me why did i ask? I said well i notice that you leave so much money here in the space, more than most of us leave, and that this gave me the impression that she had a lot of it. She said, no i do not have a lotta money, however, i feel compelled to leave money here because i feel as though i have found a place where i can learn to be myself all over again and i feel honored to be here, so the money i leave is a way for me to help this happening to continue, and yes it is a selfish motive i have, for i do have myself in mind when i do that. Then she asked me the strangest question. She asked me if i was envious of her ability to do leave what seemed to me large amounts of money? I answered that i had become suspicious of her motives. She said her motives were really simply, she believed in supporting that, that supported her. I said to her that money was one of the 3M's that divided wimmin, she said she thought it was not money that divided us but the way money is used was the dividing factor. I have heard this many times. What does this really mean?
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Amy sent me the link and I am very glad she did.
I think that having money, not just what is done with it, can make a lot of difference in wimmen's lives. Having access to money, even if one does not use it in every day life, gives a womon a safety net that those who don't have money don't have. It is very different to take a road trip knowing that if the car breaks down you can afford to fix it than knowing you could be stranded. Multiply this kind of difference across entire lives and it leaves wimmin perceiving and actually living in very different worlds.
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