Re: The letter

WOO HOO!  Nicely done my dear!  Kudos!

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From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 4 May 2003 23:09:00 -0500

>Regarding Rhea Edmonds' Living Section feature article (5/4/3) on the
>young greenhouse owner, Ryan Baker, I was appalled at her opening
>sentence.  She wrote, "A long-lived stereotype identifying plant and
>flower gardening as girly..."  What??  Ms. Edmonds did her subject, Mr
>Baker, and the entire horticultural community a great disservice by
>childishly (and unprofessionally) labeling men as effeminate if they
>possess an interest in this billion dollar industry. By whose standards
>(other than her own) does she believe men who enjoy plants are "girly"? 
>She interviewed several men for her article including Roger Moll,
>Cooperative Extension Director.  Did she think them "girly"?  Talk with
>Allen County Horticultural Educator, Ricky Kemery, about the back-braking
>labor that flowers and other plants require and she'll discover that
>horticulture is not for wimps. Most of my professors in my Horticulture
>courses were men.  Many great garden wrtiers are men.  A large number of
>our local Master Gardeners are men.  They will all gladly tell you that
>they have endured sweat and pain for the sake of beauty in our lives. 
>That is NOT "girly".  This stereotype exists only in the writer's mind
>and she should have had the good journalism sense to keep it to herself. 
>And the JG should have had sense enough to assign this story to a more
>capable writer.
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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