MeerderWörter’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

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@Meelie: Exactly:)

I have an English copy. I ship it anywhere. So, just message me if you want one.

Nah, it's still too early that I'm excited about the next book.
To the moderators: Could Emma announce the book early so we have time to get it for Christmas? It would be a really cool present to give!
That would be really cool!:)

Mothers are truly to be astonished. Biological and non-biological ones alike.

My mother and I. That's complicated. We still talk yes, and I still phone her too, but I'm glad I moved out in the end of September because I couldn't stay the house where we lived in any more. Too many sad memories, too many hurt feelings on my side.
She made me who I am in the very definition of the word, but I wish she would have acted different upon it.
I really didn't have a good relationship with her, I often felt like: Ok, I'll do this so nobody gets suspicious about anything. It's not so easy to live in a small village with all your relatives around you, and you have to act a certain way or they will ask unpleasant questions. Like: How can you not love your mum, how can you act upon her like that. (Believe me, you can do a lot to somebody you don't like really.)
Now that I'm at university I think it's a bit better, because I skype a lot with one of my cousins and we also write each other letters, which we think is really cool to do.

My German teacher once said that she would like to have a child like she had been. And I simply answered that I would, at all costs, not like to have a child like I have been. She was REALLY shocked, but it's true. I couldn't raise a child like I have been. Little revolting tomboy, who insulted their parents regularly...
(I must say I had every reason for it tho.)

I now laugh about it, but it was, still is, not easy with my parents. I'm just waiting for this huge clash, the eruption of a volcano, and then that was it.

I'm really proud of my mother's mother tho. We are really close and she's a person I admire and look up to. I'm her only grandchild, so I'm her only little shining star. I love being around her, she's so calm, so full of everything I lack, I think.

Emma is my HUGE role model and I appreciate everything she does hugely. She was there for me, when nobody else was, not how I needed them. I can't wait for Beauty and the Beast, seeing her in a movie again.

I really liked the one about Vivian deciding to go onto a ship - to enter this entirely male world of ships.

Woah, I gulped this book in nearly one sitting!

I got mine from the library. When I buy books, I simply order them at the local bookstore, that's not really a problem in Austria. I also use Rebuy sometimes, but it's only for Austria and Germany, you should check it out tho. Very cheap, and you can also sell books there.

It was my first Angelou book and I must say I have borrowed six more books from her or about her books, to get to know her better. I have read it more or less in one sitting, for I have read the first two chapters and then the day before yesterday evening I finished it.

@Daryl: Sometimes the book fairies really are with us, sometimes also strange things happen when they're around. I was borrowing "Revolution from Within" from Gloria Steinem from the library and the librarian told me( I couldn't find it in the first place) that it's strange because the book is there, obviously, in the computer system, but nothing has ever happened with that book. No borrowing, but also no work from the library's side. Strange indeed. So now I'm the first one to borrow that book, although it is old enough to have been borrowed often.

@Mariuca: I hope so too. I'm not as often here as I want to be, but OSS really has become important to me, it's very informative and interesting to discuss topics in the books or in general with all the 150.000 (wow, I still know when it was 10.000 :) ) members.
I think it will, tho, I see no reason why it should be different.

@Samantha: It's really great to read about Maya Angelou. I especially felt connected to the end of the book (view spoiler)[since death is so well-known to me, having worked in an old-people's home and losing some family members in my teens already. (hide spoiler)]
I also liked to read how she blossomed, although she had a difficult relationship with her mom in her younger years and becoming a strong, powerful woman, who knew what she wanted. Who never gave up.

@Meg: I didn't know that, it makes me proud to think that you all were able to do that. I got mine from the university's library, so I'm not responsible for that, but I must say it reminds me of My Life on the Road
where we also really made an impact on sales numbers, soaring them by 109 per cent. (That's quite a lot, don't you think so?)
I better ask the public library to get a copy or two of it, maybe I should drop the fact that it's our November/December pick, maybe that will convince them.

@Micaela: You could also try the Pay It Forward thread for Mom&Me&Mom, if there is one already, and somebody will send it to you. Good to remember for the future.
Here is the Pay-It-Forward-Thread: Click!

I think so too, action is more important than speech, although action alone is not enough to make change, if you ask me. But definitions are secondary to action, yes, we share a point here.

Of action to make change? Were you refering to the fact that 300 child marriages in Africa (ah, I can't remember the name, shame on me) were annulled one or two months ago?
That's what I was thinking about now.

James, you have a point here. Every chosen book was so far at least critizised by some, and I think that is a good way of approaching a book. And even if, let's say, How To Be A Woman was a bad choice, as many considered it was, it taught us something as well. How NOT to do it, so I really don't see any problems here so far.
Emma may not be the most intersectional feminist, but I can't say she's a white feminist, which is a very good start to begin with.

I think it's quite sad when we discuss stuff like intersectionality in a way like this and forget what she also achieved.

I'm going to further read it today. As far as I've read now, I think it's wonderful!

I say I take sides with Aglaea here, because we all the ability to grow, and that is important. We also change with time, I'm not the same person I was three years ago.

Ross wrote: "Thanks Matt, perhaps we need to find representatives of the groups involved. Maybe ask the question what does feminism mean to each of the Women on OSS. What do you think ladies."
As I feel aproached, I will answer as follows:
For me, feminism is the very definition of feminism, which means equality for everyone. I'm also very sensitive to people using degrading language. I even don't like most jokes, for that reason.
I think feminism is equality, it's about freedom, about the human rights and those who violate (of which there are many people). It's about awareness for illnesses, and stigma and shame.
In short, it's about everything that hinders a free and equal world, in which we aproach each other with dignity and understanding, not hate or neglect.
That's what feminism is for me.

@Laure: Ich kenne auch keine deutschsprachigen Feminist*innen außer Alice Schwarzer, was ich sehr schade finde. Sagt mal, da muss es doch noch mehr geben, als nur Alice Schwarzer. Sie kann ja nicht die einzige Feministin Deutschlands sein.

@Karin: Woher kennst du denn die Schreibweise mit Sternchen? Das ist ja ganz fortschrittlich!
Ich sage nicht, dass Alice Schwarzer alle Probleme dieser Welt anprangern muss und soll, denn das schafft niemand. Aber mich stört, dass sie meiner Meinung nach teilweise einfach zu wenig reflektiert.

@Ines: Lies dir einmal Theorien zur Sozialisation durch, die unterstreichen nämlich das, was ich sagen wollte. Ich suche morgen nach dem richtigen Zitat, ich kann grade nicht in der Suchmaschine der Uni auf das Buch zugreifen.

Ich bin nicht altersintolerant, ich sage nur mal so: Fast alle Menschen finden in der Jugend heraus, wer sie sind, und dabei bleiben sie dann auch, mehr oder weniger. Aber man hat grundsätzlich immer die Möglichkeit, sich zu ändern, da gebe ich dir recht, Ines. In unseren Gedanken fängt es an, und dann setzen wir es in Schrift und Tat um.

Wir müssen Ravenclaws sein, bereit, immer dazu zu lernen. Es wird aber schwieriger, wenn man erwachsen ist, finde ich. Da ist die Sozialisation schon großteils abgeschlossen.

Also ich kenne das schon - nicht so direkt, aber halt doch vorhanden. Ich hab mich schon immer einen Dreck geschert, was andere Leute von mir sagen in der Hinsicht, aber es fällt halt schon auf. Da bist du weg vom Fenster.

Um zu Alice Schwarzer zurükzukehren: Ich bin froh für Leute wie sie und Käthe Leichter, die echt was vorangebracht haben, aber wenn man dann stecken bleibt ist das nicht so das wahre finde ich.

I bet I'll devour it in one sitting:)

Wie gesagt, die muslimischen Frauen sagen ja, dass wir versklavt sind, weil wir Haut herzeigen müssen um attraktiv zu sein. Und darum ist es total verkehrt, wenn man ihnen einfach mal Rückständigkeit unterstellt.
Und wir wissen ja alle, dass Grau das Wahre ist und nicht Schwarz und Weiß!

Na ja, genau deine letzten beiden Zeilen stören mich zum Beispiel. Die LGBT Community ist nicht irgendeine Randgruppe, sondern in allen Gesellschafts- und Altersschichten vertreten. Sie deswegen unischtbar zu machen, ist genau das falsche.