Re: The letter

You go lady! And I have to say, along with the "girly" comment, the whole
sentence was about as readable as Swahili to me. Made NO sense.
Andrea H
Beaufort, SC
Zone 8b

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
To: "Agardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:09 AM
Subject: [CHAT] The letter


> 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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