- Can someone be pro-life and pro-choice at the same time?
- Can a woman be empowered and still look for a man?
- Is there evolution within creation? Could God have used evolution to create?
- Is it possible to be a feminist if you are a stay at home mom?
- Is being dependent on someone the opposite of being an independent person?
- Do we have to have our identity defined by our career, our marital status or our children rather than our character and person?
Just some thoughts bouncing around in my grey matter these days.
3 comments:
yes...and no...and yes. I don't think there is one right answer. I also don't think we know our true position on any of those issues until we realize that our position has changed...or changed back. Amazing how circumstances can teach us just how little we have considered some of the opinions we have carried for years.
Fascinating questions. In spite of the relativity prevalent in society today, I think people in general are more comfortable with polar opposites. Makes things simpler--no weighty decisions and such. Here's my stab at some ideas:
I think some of your questions' answers depend on the definition of the terms within the questions (talk about relativity!). Take "empowered", for instance. If by empowered you mean that a woman knows who she is and what she believes AND is comfortable with it, I'd say she'd be better off being "empowered" before looking for a man; an activity which is simply human nature and, in my opinion, will be indulged in regardless of empowerment (however you define it).
I don't think God used evolution to create, but he did set certain scientific processes in motion, such as reproduction and adaptation, which I think can be confused with evolution. I personally don't think adaptation and evolution are the same, but then I guess there are those that do. For me, the whole evolution thing just creates more questions than it answers.
I love the feminist/stay at home mom question. Again, I think it depends on your definition of a feminist. I have a barrage of thoughts on this, but will just ramble without a definition of what you think feminism is. Has it changed over the years?
I think our true identity is our character and person, but both ourselves and others can redefine the external appearance of it depending on where we're at and what the context is. That doesn't really make sense, I guess, but I'm sort of in the thick of it right now. For example, before I had kids, I was an instructor. That's how people at work saw me, with the potential for ladder-climbing and such. After I had kids, people at work started calling me "little mother" and "mom". Weird. I don't think my identity had changed, but my primary ROLE had. My role as a mom is more important to me than my role as an ESOL instructor. I'm still me, albeit more absent-minded than before:).
I'd love to delve into the other questions as well--particularly the pro-life/pre-choice one--but I have to go feed the baby:). I do have my shoes on, though;). I'll pop back on sometime and ramble some more.
I'm pretty sure most things are (and always will be) shades of gray no matter how black or white they seem. I think a lot of contrasts fade as I get older. And the questions are infinitely more interesting in the fact that they are, for all intents and purposes, unanswerable, but deliciously debatable.
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