Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: What is community?

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Loren  LMD [at] INTELLIMATCH.BATNET.COM 
is the author of the message below but due
to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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At 11:35 PM 4/19/95 CDT, Joaniblank [at] aol.com wrote:

>Quick. When I say "rugged individualist," don't most of you think "male?".
>And when I say "putting the group before the individual".......? You get my
>drift. Now, I hope I haven't started something divisive here. That is
>certainly not my intent. I do hope, however, that if I get criticised for
>bringing this up (am I being paranoid?), some of you women will come to my
>defense. 

Well....I ain't a woman...and *I* think you've got a point here.

And I also hope that we can look at this as a "different doesn't equal bad"
thing.  As is graphically being demonstrated in the "real world", when
people start taking the attitude that "different is evil and less-than
human", our quality of life goes downhill real fast.

Fortunately, I believe that most of the regular posters on here already
understand this concept, which is part of why many of us are here.  Your
mileage, of course, may vary.  And that's okay.

Loren