Gynarchy

[Bekah]

Way back in the early '70s when I was a youngish hippie mom I tried to ban guns from my son's play.   Impossible -  if there weren't toys for the purpose he used his pointed finger.   I realized I couldn't effectively prevent his playing shoot 'em up of some sort.   So I made a rule and set a scenario for him - he can only shoot those animals which are going to hurt him.  Never shoot people  - "I don't want you even playing pretend to hurt people!"   

 Then we put all his stuffed animals around on the floor and sitting in his boat (bed)  he could aim and shoot as he traveled through the swamp.   He had about a dozen stuffed animals of various sorts,  bears, an alligator, whatever.   He was about 5,  I think.   It was a phase of maybe a year - probably less.   He never did get a toy gun.  

Bekah


On Dec 17, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> it is in the air and water....my 4yo grandson wants to play, about every visit, 'attack' time....comes at me Ninja turtle--superhero-like....
> over and over....pummels and kicks...........why?.....energy, need to feel strong? in the air?......the being superhero-like seems almost
> inborn????....."what means 'seems"?, says Hamlet (or someone)......you get the point.......
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> Way back, when my kids were being raised, I tried, without guns, etc.....I read about a boy of REAL countercultural parents, commune maybe and his kids fascination with....knives, the blades?????/
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> From: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
> To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> 
> Cc: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 10:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Gynarchy
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> David, Thanks for the article. I have two boys who are hunting/fishing nuts. I don't know why exactly. Other than taking them fishing, I haven't encouraged this. My nine year old asked for an AK-47 air soft gun for Christmas. Right. Then they want an X-Box so they can play Black Ops. It's in the air and the water. What to do?
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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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> I was in shock and sadness most of the weekend and just probably watched too much of the coverage.   But this morning (or last night) on hearing that all these fool people can't or won't pass sensible gun legislation I'm more angry than anything.   It seems as though we,  the US,  various states and communities and so on,  are condoning this kind of thing by not doing something about the automatic assault weapons at least.   And more than that - I'm beginning to believe there is a certain nurturing of the gun mentality what with all the violent movies,  computer /video games,  toys,  etc.  on the market getting huge audiences.   If this continues I can only think we deserve the next little shooting spree.
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> sorry,
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> Bekah
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