Time on my hands

I had a spare few moments this morning and decided to spend them browsing info relevant to wymmynofacertainage.

I’ve had to retype this more than once while I edited out the less circumspect comments, but really, there is only so far I can go towards gaining a measured post on this. This is the “calm down dear” version.

Oh my good goddess!!!!!! What a colossal amount of virtual and virtually useless drivel! Wymmynofacertainage blogs/websites appear to divide into the following categories:

The “check out my blog with its real-life experiences while I flog you ‘natural herbal remedies’ ". It’s not that I don’t admire women making books out of their own experiences or providing a place for others to comment and share stories, but really, I do not want endless (or so it seemed) white middle-class muddle-educated Ladees telling me ‘how it really is’.

Then there are the idiot male doctors telling partiarchally mind-controlled credulous Ladees about their own bodies when wymmynofacertainage should not be dealt with using such blatantly patronising language. Boys, hands off our systems! It is 2009, if I want medical info on women’s matters I want it from a woman, not a pseudo-empathetic patronising lecture from a non-bleeder.

In comparison, and although no one has much respect for the drug companies, at least their online presence seeks to inform and usually avoids unhelpful images. They are upfront in their attempts to push HRT or whatever is the latest chemical ‘cure’ at women.

As is the way of things, there is an infestation of the evol biologists propagating their credo. Listen, you numbskulls, I do not like what you say as it is by and large insulting to wymmyn. Also, as the only evol biologist site not to offend me this morning talked about menopausal great apes, this was not useful - I am neither zookeeper not animal experimenter. In fairness (dunno why I should be fair to those unspeakable nitwits) but ... actually, I forgot what I was going to say, the effort of trying to find a reason to be fair drained my brain for a moment.

Where you get the evol biologists, their co-henchpersons the evol psyches will also manifest in the end-of-usefulness-to-patriarchy business. One site wittered unconvincingly about the age-related changes in the female brain precipitating divorce. I didn't, but maybe you all knew that our brains have a ‘mummy part’ which changes in wymmynofacertainage?

Looks like I am gravitating towards the relative calm, uncommercialised sanity of the new-age-goddess-wisdom-crone corner of the interwebby for a breather. But that’s not my natural home really.
So, what do I want? Well, straightforward, woman-centred feminist info would be a start. Oh! Of course! Why didn’t I think of this in the first place?

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/chapter.asp?id=26

Sensibly, the Boston Women's Health Collective has always maintained that "pathology/disease approach to normal life events (birthing, menopause, aging, death) is not an effective way in which to consider health or structure a health system."

The image at the top is from Wikipedia and is of the triple goddess.

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