Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: when all our men are dead and gone

[melanie griffin (melgrif]

Seriously, I have been involved in a group trying to form co-housing, and
one of the people in the group suggested that we not invite any more
50-something women, who are disproportionately represented in the current
group. Since those are the only people I know who are thinking about
community, or innovative housing, or green housing, I asked why but never
got a satisfactory answer. The men I know who are single or married, gay or
straight, are either settled or don't want the responsibility of dealing
with a group and are looking for a partner to do the 2 against the world
thing with.  We have plenty of brawn and "boy skills" in our forming group,
and the person who suggested it is probably  not looking to have a pool of
mates (she has a healthy social life) so I suspect it was out of some sense
of balance or fairness, but I honestly don't see anything wrong with having
a group of mostly women as a community, tribe, coven, whatever. As you say,
they do a large part of the work in any domestic situation.

Melanie

On Feb 11, 2008 11:20 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
wrote:

>
>
> On Feb 10, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Christine Johnson wrote:
>
> > Problem: "too many single old women"  ?  Can you have TOO many old
> > women ?
> >
> > "Wow, that sounds
> > fabulous" said a 30 something young woman.
>
> Particularly since those old women do so much of the work, perhaps
> even the majority of it.
>
> Sharon
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