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Comment on Guns, Sex(ism), and Hugs by ozob

ozob — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:10:45 +0000

right on! our individual patterns create those societal trends — so for example if I say, “Yeah, racism sucks…but oooh, nooooo, I’m not racist” that’s like me trying to sell you an Oreo without the creamy center.

“let’s take something primitive and make it intellectual/ the roots of white supremacy? definitely sexual” — Mic Crenshaw

Comment on Guns, Sex(ism), and Hugs by Allison

Allison — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:01 +0000

Crazy week for violence…so much negative tension spilled over. Addressing issues of masculinity, gender stereotypes, institutions and expectations (ESPECIALLY unrealistic ones) is key for us to do to address violence as a society, but also on an individual level. Many of us can acknowledge societal trends and their ramifications, but it’s still hard to scrutinize one’s own patterns of assimilation and consent. A long road that must be started nonetheless. As a long time feminist I constantly rail against stereotypes and expectations placed on women–how we should act, dress, talk, be, work, play, etc. Sometimes though I think men are limited to even narrower confines in the level of permission society gives them to break out of those expectations. Providing support and encouragement for men to be accepting of themselves as themselves (not some built up institution version of what a MAN is) might be one of the most powerful thing we can do for women too–and isn’t the idea to make things better for all of us? I have been thinking about this lately–thanks for providing a platform for me to put it in writing, Ethan.

Comment on Open Letter of Resignation by Thom

Thom — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:48:22 +0000

What’s going on with Eva Kutas’ reply? I’m curious what she considers to be the “constructive input” she received from all the staff members who have resigned or been fired due to Christine?

Comment on Open Letter of Resignation by Joan

Joan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:51:45 +0000

My sadness for you as I know you had great hopes to help incite important social change. Yet the knowledge, energy and ability to follow through was sucked out of you by a person who does not understand what organizational leadership really means.

Comment on Open Letter of Resignation by ozob

ozob — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:40:50 +0000

haha, “43%….not bad!”

Comment on Open Letter of Resignation by orizabafarm

orizabafarm — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:17:28 +0000

Your Exec. Director’s response smacks to me of the same inability of management to openly address and confront problems with their employees that I dealt with at Fairview Gardens. The expectation of maintaining employee secrecy during periods of difficulty is the same culture that prevents conflict resolution and protects the abusive power dynamics you are experiencing (and that I also experienced).

Or perhaps your Exec. Director somehow sees “3 out of 7″ as a positive approval rating of her job performance.

Comment on Open Letter of Resignation by ozob

ozob — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:43:23 +0000

Hi Therresa,

thank you so much for writing and for your support! what hope do we have for social change if we are treating one-another like crap? how can we effectively seek social change when leaders are abusing power within the movement?

the “ethical leadership” class sounds great — was that graduate level, or new? i don’t ever remember seeing something like that for undergrads!

ethan

Comment on Open Letter of Resignation by Therresa Kennedy

Therresa Kennedy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:24:33 +0000

Ethan,

This sounds like such a finely worded letter of resignation. Its apparent, you are a thoughtful, intelligent and serious minded person. Its also apparent that there is someone within this organization that is not as interested as you are, in furthering the goals of the task force, but rather with only maintaining their own level of personal power in a work place situation, to the detriment of the task force.

As I learned in my “Ethical Leadership” class as PSU, sometimes when indivuals have little power in their personal lives, they compensate for that lack of balance in their professional lives and make coworkers lives unbearable, until such time that situations like this arise.

Good for you for publishing this letter and for being open and honest about a difficult situation. You have my support and respect, though I don’t know the specific details of what you’re going through, I’ve been in similar situations and so can imagine and certaly empathize.

Its apparent from the thoughtful lanuage in the letter that you are not a flippant person and that you take matters like this quite seriously.

I wish you the best of luck in your new employment search and also for deciding to remain involved in such a noble fight; the prevention of sexual violence.

Good for you and best regards!!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Therresa kennedy

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Comment on revelling in discovery by colinresponse

colinresponse — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:42:19 +0000

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