Getting past all the frightful negative stuff that’s going on now under the current national regime is difficult. The awful arresting of the best and the brightest – students with the courage to practice the right [we once had] to protest – colleges and universities being attacked and punished for doing their job – knowing that what I used to teach encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion is now under attack. How fortunate I was to live in the days of academic freedom. How sad I am to watch what’s happening now to my chosen career.
But I’m choosing today to talk about something that really made me happy. You can read about it yourself at https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1jy3u0x/rolling_with_their_babies_for_fathers_in_search/?rdt=47375
But let me tell you a very personal reason why it makes me happy.
As I approached the end of my [not yet published] story of Mona as a psychologist, currently titled How Could These Lovely People Have Let it Happen?: a Psychologist’s Intimate Journal, I realized how my small part teaching the psychology of women and promoting the topic A Healthy Woman is a Crazy Person had helped to shake up the basic structure of our society in the women’s movement of my time.
I’m referring to the fact that working on women’s problem that has no name (Betty Friedan) had defeated the notion that we were the opposite of men, consequently opening up broad opportunities for us. It wasn’t at the forefront of our minds to recognize that we were creating the problem that has no name for men whose assumed roles were perforce changed. What an opportunity for men to choose the broadening of their lives!
And that’s what I like about the article referenced above – the twofold goal of enjoying parenting and broadening communication with each other.
I’m not sure I’ve said it well here. I think I’ve done a better job – with more words – of saying it in my manuscript. Basically, it thrills me to see people at all points on the gender continuum finding their fuller, more potentially joyful selves.
p.s., feel free to email me with an offer to read my manuscript. forgivenessoptions@earthlink.net
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