{"id":768,"date":"2008-04-21T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2008-04-21T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T02:17:00","slug":"sanity-thy-name-is-gloria-feldt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/21\/sanity-thy-name-is-gloria-feldt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity, Thy Name is Gloria Feldt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SA0_IPkkmbI\/AAAAAAAABTE\/dxatfqqK3eg\/s1600-h\/ipod+smallest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SA0_IPkkmbI\/AAAAAAAABTE\/dxatfqqK3eg\/s200\/ipod+smallest.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.GloriaFeldt.com\">Gloria Feldt<\/a> is a sanity-inducing voice in the midst of the generational snarkfest that&#8217;s currently going on.  I&#8217;m sharing her comment on<a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/beat-goes-onand-on.html\"> my last post<\/a> here, as a post, because I wonder if I ever shy away from the flames of controversy just a wee bit too much.  (Hmm&#8230;paging Dr. Freud!)  <\/p>\n<p>I truly believe in engaging debate and viciously hate the anger-filled tone that debate seems to have taken on of late.  Doth Girl with Pen protest too much?  I&#8217;d be curious to hear what others think about tactics for airing differences.  How do we clear a space for argument, as Gloria urges below, in a way that genuinely moves debate forward?  (And doesn&#8217;t this image of Gloria on an IPOD just make your day?)  <\/p>\n<p>In any event, one of the many things I value about Gloria is her ability to engage&#8211;meaning debate and differ&#8211;with younger generations while maintaining a deep sense of respect.  And here she is:<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deborah-<br \/>I couldn&#8217;t agree more with your suggested course of action to defeat McCain together. That&#8217;s the job #1 of all feminists for sure.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I want to put in a good word for engaging the debate even when it is with gloves off. I suggest that what women need most is to learn how to engage vigorously and constructively without being turned off or frightened off.<\/p>\n<p>Like you, I believe we shouldn&#8217;t trash each other, but (probably because I&#8217;ve had lots of experience with hardknuckle conflict and know that one lives to tell the tale&#8211;and even learns and grows stronger from it), I think we need to clear a space for arguing about the issues together with the goal of not just understanding but making concrete plans to go forward on matters like winning the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Every generation has to speak in its own tongue. We don&#8217;t have to be angry with one another to air our differences.<br \/>Gloria Feldt <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Feldt is a sanity-inducing voice in the midst of the generational snarkfest that&#8217;s currently going on. I&#8217;m sharing her comment on my last post here, as a post, because I wonder if I ever shy away from the flames of controversy just a wee bit too much. (Hmm&#8230;paging Dr. Freud!) I truly believe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,21804],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intergenerational","tag-sisterhood-is"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}