Re: [You're SO Kewl!] Introduction

[Crystal Procknow]

Well, thank you, Greenwolfe, for your sweet comments... I'm glad to know somebody's actually reading what I write on there, lol. Actually, the light in that picture was made by moving a flashlight across my face while taking the picture... I think it makes a pretty neat effect.

And the color of my page... other than black and white, pink is my favorite color... I love the innocence of it and lately I've come to accept the fact that I am a woman, instead of fighting it. I like being a woman, and I wouldn't want to be any different.

I like Allison Krause, in fact,  her song "A Living Prayer" is probably my favorite song to sing.

What did you go to college for? And where are you from?

[GREENWOLFE]

Thank you Crystal . I'll tell you generally where I'm
from .
I don't really live near any big cities . I live in the U.
S.
in what's known as the Appalachian Mountains . That
puts me in the Eastern Time Zone . I've lived here
virtually all my life . I've never been north of
Philadelphia .
But I have been to California . Heard Wisconsin was a
nice state , but it did make a political mistake ages
ago . I almost drowned at the age of ten , was a Boy
Scout , was the first in my family to go to college . I
got my degree in Psychology . But my life study has
been mankind . Mostly through history and love . I
shook the hands of Margaret Mead and Eleanor Roosevelt .
I fell in love at age 11 and did my first study of humans
at age 14 . I saw Oswald get shot and The Beatles on
The Ed Sullivan Show . Well that's about it , I hope I
answered your questions well enough . All it does is tell
you I'm old lucky , fortunate , liberal , romantic , and
real interested in people . And right now , I'm interested
enough in you to want to be here and find out what
your trouble was in being a woman and what changed
your mind ?

[Crystal Procknow]

Yes, you answered my questions perfectly... :)
But what I was talking about when it comes to my being a woman is that while I was growing up I was a little tomboy-ish. It wasn't as bad as a lot of girls get, especially since I liked wearing skirts and dresses. Though while I was probably thirteen, I had an ambition. I wanted to be the first white female rap star. (That phase lasted a whole two weeks.) And being really feminine didn't fit so well into that. It didn't fit very well into my next phase either. The punk rock phase, which lasted about two and a half years. Then I decided to shock everybody in my school and I dove straight into a pink phase. I went on a shopping spree over my winter break and bought loads of pink clothes.
That was my way of accepting who I was. By shocking other people... pretty strange, but it was fun!

[GREENWOLFE]

Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha! Well , there it is .
You're one of those girls who " just wants to
have fun" . I think that by the time a girl
reaches puberty that her mother and father
have told her so many things that she shouldn't
do because it's not something that society
expects girls to do that girls are just so
frustrated by it all that they start demanding
to be treated as a person and not a girl .
Thinking ,of course , that it's because she's
a girl that she can't be herself .
Thank God society , for the first time in
history is starting to give women the same
opportunities that boys have always had . I
think the next thing we have to do is to
start treating girls as people who are
individuals in their own right . We need
to tell girls not just what it means to be
feminine , we need to tell them what it
means to be female .
That term has been used as a negative
comment in history . Women need to reclaim
it . Being a female does not mean you are
less than a man , it just means you are
different physically . Women should write
their own definition of being female . They
can do that now and they should . I'm
sorry to say though , that many women
are hostile to being female . It's good
to know that in my lifetime I have been
privileged to watch the greatest social
transformation in the history of the world .
All that remains now is for more young
girls like you were , to write the new meanings
to these words so that your daughters will
come to appreciate all the aspects of being
a girl and eventually a woman . You may
not consider yourself a pioneer but you and
all the girls , the daughters of the girls and
women of my generation are just that . I
am an eyewitness to history . Eleanor
Roosevelt and Margaret Mead would be
so proud of you .

Greenwolfe