Gynarchy

[Mark Kohut]

Seems bullet control was an idea of Daniel Patrick Moynahan's. See end of this and there is a link.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/spitzer/2012/12/17/newtown_shooting_it_s_time_to_target_cerberus_the_private_equity_firm_that.html


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From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Gynarchy


Yes, Mark, I certainly agree that Against the Day is decidedly philogynistic. In fact, I think that might be a subtext in much of Pynchon's oeuvre. V. as the dark priest is dismembered by male children, right? Take it from there.... 

Do you have a link for the taxing bullets thing? I'm all for that.



On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

I feel like a one-note fool....and feckless within the context of THE REAL WORLD and changing it...
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>but for me, Against the Day is a major work believing in "the moral superiority of women", I suggest....
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>From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>To: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> 
>Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:03 PM
>Subject: Re: Gynarchy
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>Well, we might get assault weapons banned this time around. Did this kid use an assault weapon? I haven't seen a list of his arms. Handguns are another issue. It's possible screening could become more selective for the sale of handguns, but that won't dispose of the ones that are already out there. We won't likely see any significant change in regulations regarding shotguns and hunting rifles in our lifetimes. Maybe there could be a safety course requirement, such as some states require for hunting license issue, but kids incline to sleepwalk through those things. (It's odd, isn't it, to sell a weapon without a safety course requirement, but to require such a course to get permission to use it in the manner under the guise of which the weapon is sold in the first place?) 
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>I'm much more interested in the subject of Rich's lead here. It has long been my position that women are morally superior to men. Musta picked it up from Plato's Socrates. There are, of course, websites devoted to Gynarchy and Matriarchy. Oddly, the matriarchal website "Women Thou Art God" seems more open to the public for inquiry, whereas the Gynarchy International seems more militant, subversive, selective in terms of audience and participation.
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>http://www.womanthouartgod.com/femdivine.php
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>One of the reasons I've long inclined to regard women as morally superior has to do with their inclination to talk about things before they act. Wilber, citing someone else in something I read several years ago, says that talking is a vital function of the feminine thought process. Masculine thought processes, on the other hand, incline to get hung up on an idea and let it fester until it springs like Athena from our foreheads, with no need for further editing, if we can help it, thank you very much for your thoughts I'll take the time to consider thinking about them before I ignore them and move forward with my obsession. Feminine thought processes therefore by nature incline to gyro better in their course, by allowing greater outside influence. It's clearly not universal, but the inclination seems likely enough to me. It seems most clearly defined in youth, before our beloved patriarchal social hierarchy indoctrinates the young into the wisdom of
 winning friends and influencing people.
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>On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
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>there are countless petitions circulating. it's also a good time to call your representative.
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>>Phillip Greenlief
>>1075 Aileen Street Apt B
>>Oakland, CA 94608
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>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>To: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Sent: Mon, December 17, 2012 8:59:23 AM
>>Subject: Re: Gynarchy
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>>yes, yes...I'm going to do SOMETHING....ongoing.
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>>From: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
>>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 9:47 AM
>>Subject: Gynarchy
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>>I have been thinking lately what a woman led world would look like. I pretty much in agreement with sentiment here regarding this recent shooting & mass murder. There are more women in congress but I do wonder the effect psychologically for women when they begin to have more direct combat roles. Will that change the dynamic in anyway? Who can say. An experiment in a more active leadership in governance by women is surely one we should support in some form.
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>>With that said gender issues aside we can easily reconstitute the assault weapons ban and ensure the mentally ill do not have access to such things. Far too many of these cases are not heightened testosterone but simply people out of their head. Yes they are male but I see them as mentally ill first. 
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>>I'm hoping there will be some change after this event. Shame on us all if nothing changes. Those poor kids deserve their memories to mean something. 
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