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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Sorry, Peg, I have previous engagement so won't be attending. Thank you so much for your R.E. on Sunday. The rest should be fun!!!</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div id="LGEmailSignatureBox" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:9pt;"><i>Powered by Cricket Wireless</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Original message------</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>From: </b>Peg Clifford via Women <women@fuusm.org></women@fuusm.org></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>Sun, Jan 8, 2017 11:29 PM</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>To: </b>A List fro the Women of FUUSM;</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Subject:</b>[Women] Dinner: Wednesday 6:00 pm</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">DearLadies,<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Thewomen’s dinner will be held this Wednesday at the elegant manse of Peg Cliffordin the quaint burg of Parkersburg, WV at six pm. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Iwill be serving colcannon: a vegetarian version and another version forcarnivores.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Vegans:You are on your own. Shari Miller told me that she will be bringing quiche.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Bread,salads, desserts, or wine would be appreciated. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">1729Covert St. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Parkersburg.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Thecorner of 18<sup>th</sup> and Covert<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Thehouse is down the street from the old St. Joe’s Hospital (19<sup>th</sup> St.),and a few blocks from PHS. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><a href="tel:304-893-2622">304-893-2622</a>call if you need directions. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in" dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Somethoughts for discussion <span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">We talk a lot about “diversity;â€however I would like to challenge us to<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> define THEOTHER<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in" dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Howdo you define your OTHER? <span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr">The other <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr">Retrieved from <a href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/other.html">http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/other.html</a><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><div align="center" dir="ltr"><table class="gmail-MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="75%" style="width:75%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The Other<span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The Other is an individual who is perceived by the group as not belonging, as being different in some fundamental way. Any stranger becomes the Other. The group sees itself as the norm and judges those who do not meet that norm (that is, who are different in any way) as the Other. Perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group, the Other is almost always seen as a lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly. The Other in a society may have few or no legal rights, may be characterized as less intelligent or as immoral, and may even be regarded as sub-human.<span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Otherness takes many forms. The Other may be someone who is of...<span></span></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different race (White vs. non-White),<span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different nationality (Anglo Saxon vs. Italian),<span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different religion (Protestant vs. Catholic or Christian vs. Jew),<span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different social class (aristocrat vs. serf),<span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different political ideology (capitalism vs. communism),<span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different sexual orientation (heterosexual vs. homosexual),<span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">a different origin (native born vs. immigrant).<span></span></span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The Other is not necessarily a numerical minority. In a country defeated by an imperial power, the far more numerous natives become the Other, for example, the British rule in India where Indians outnumbered the British 4,000 to 1. Similarly, women are defined and judged by men, the dominant group, in relationship to themselves, so that they become the Other. Hence Aristotle says: "The female is a female by virtue of a certain <i>lack</i> of qualities; we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness."<span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The group which is defining the Other may be an entire society, a social class or a community within a society, a family, or even a high school clique or a neighborhood gang.<a name="outsider"></a><span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The Other and the Outsider<span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The outsider frequently overlaps with the Other, but they are not identical. The outsider has the possibility of being accepted by and incorporated into the group; offspring are very likely to be accepted into the group. The Other, however, is perceived as different in kind, as lacking in some essential trait or traits that the group has; offspring will inherit the same deficient nature and be the Other also. Therefore the Other and the offspring of the Other may be doomed forever to remain separate, never to become part of the group--in other words, to be the Other forever.<span></span></span></p> </td> </tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Sohow do we embrace THE OTHER?<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">OK OK †Welcoming Congregation.†That’s wonderful, but when is the lasttime you had dinner with a Trump supporter? <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:150%" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Let’sstart with “rednecks.†When was the last time you hung out with and reallytried to listen to a “redneckâ€? I wouldlike to introduce you to Trae Crowder “THELIBERAL REDNECK.â€<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">OK OK he’s a redneck and uses a lot of bad language:try to listen anyway.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Our goal here is to embrace the other. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">I think he is on to something important. Three minutes of your time please. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI_pSEbFQ3A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI_pSEbFQ3A</a><span></span></span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><font size="4"></font></p><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;font-weight:normal;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><font size="4"><br></font></h1><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;font-weight:normal;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><font size="4">“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of makingplans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a dailyevent for me. †</font><font size="2"> ― Anaïs Nin</font></h1><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;font-weight:normal;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><font size="2"><br></font></h1></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(24,24,24);font-weight:normal;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:merriweather,georgia,serif;line-height:21px"><span></span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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