Thanks for your input yet again, Freda. I do think you caught the drift of my idea rather more accurately than most of the others.

I would like to add, and I actually did say this in an earlier letter, that I am not unaware of women as warriors. In the past, they have not only fought alongside their men, but were often the power behind the throne. Our gender is not either unaffected by what goes on around us, or uninvolved, either through our fathers, brothers, or sons being sent, or volunteering to fight, or having to decide not to fight for causes they believe in, or are manupulated into believing in. But there are other forces working on most of us women, internal ones, that make it a lot harder to follow an aggressive path.

I don't think you can find one area in our lives that is dominated by women, except the actual process of childbirth. Not one. You might think so, but even the "housewife" is a creation of our times.

Now I do have some theories about the Tribe, and how I think a lot of our problems today have stemmed from the movement away from that form of life. But even there, something happened way back that changed the dynamics from a possible Matriarchy to a definite Patriarchy-Big Time-big enough to have stayed with us for millenia. I'd have to go back to a "What if" situation to determine what our world would be like if things had developed differently and women ran the world, or even if we ran it in tandum, but we are where we are, and we need to go from here.

That's it-just more thoughts....ellen