Re: OT-equality, not reversed

Hey Pam, I think Pamela is a great name.  When I was a little boy, of course
Richard was shortened to Dick, and that wasn't too bad, since I grew up in
the time of the Dick and Jane reading primers.  As time went on the name
just got worse and worse.  Hence the Rich.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT-equality, not reversed


> Don't feel bad, I used to have a Chinese dry cleaner who could not spell
> Evans. So he showed me the character he devised so I could always pick
> out my ticket.
>
> Hilarious.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Janet  Laytham <jw.laytham@worldnet.att.net>
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:34:55 -0500
>
> >Claire,
> >My maiden name is White.  Yet people always asked how to spell it.  Some
> >spell it with a 'y', just as there are Smythes.
> >Janet
> >
> >
> >on 01/29/2003 12:18 PM, ECPep@aol.com at ECPep@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> In a message dated 1/28/03 5:54:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >> kmrsy@earthlink.net writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Why don't single people count?>>>>
> >>
> >> Kitty, they do.  All people count.  All.  From a "NY bleeding heart
liberal"
> >> Don't let anyone get you down on this issue.  Eleanor Roosevelt said,
amongst
> >> her many worthy statements, that you are only lessened to the degree
you
> >> allow it.  No-one should presume anything with regard to the life
status of
> >> another.
> >>
> >> Upon reading the many comments, think the solutions to life's problems
are
> >> well handled in this category.  I married and have spent 40 years
spelling my
> >> name.  My husband will say quietly say, I have told you once and that
is
> >> enough and you cannot get another word out of him.   Sometimes I need
to
> >> correct a clerk somewhere on why "you people don't change your names."
I
> >> have a mother, aged 94, who uses her own name and always has.  If you
expect
> >> dignity to be afforded to you from society, you extend dignity to your
fellow
> >> man.
> >>
> >> Funnily, I was raised in a city with such a mixture of people and a
wide
> >> general acceptance of lifestyle that the shock only came upon moving to
a
> >> rural area of New York and finding "country people" much more
conservative.
> >> This attitude is diminishing to the individual and once in while makes
you a
> >> pariah in your own town.  In what is not a small way, it does
demonstrate a
> >> wide division in social attitude in this country.  It is shame that in
this
> >> new century in the US, women are still struggling for an equal place at
the
> >> table.
> >>
> >>
> >> Claire Peplowski
> >> NYS z4
> >>
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