Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 1999/02

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:32:02 -0500

Someone wrote:

> Women learned to grow their own vegetables.....

I think this is one of the most astonishing statements I have ever read on
the internet or perhaps anywhere else. Perhaps the writer was engaging in
a bit of hyperbole or invoking poetic license, but the statement evokes
memories of my grandmother, wife of a share-cropper, who spent almost her
entire life raising vegetables and doing all sorts of farm work. She
worked alongside the men, and could work as long and hard as any of them.

I think you would have had a hard time convincing her that there would be
anything extraordinary about a woman growing vegetables. But, it would
have been even more inconceivable to her that, having been grown, a
vegetable could have a gender identification. Man's vegetable or woman's
vegetable? As my grandmother would have said, "Hogwash!"

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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