--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mirza" <mirzamayl...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > From the New York Times:
> >
> > August 8, 2009
> > Op-Ed Columnist
> > Women at Risk
> > By BOB HERBERT
> >
> > "I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-
> > shaven, bathe, touch of cologne yet 30 million
> > women rejected me," wrote George Sodini in a blog
> > that he kept while preparing for this week's
> > shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed
> > three women, wounded nine others and then killed
> > himself.
> >
> > We've seen this tragic ritual so often that it has
> > the feel of a formula. A guy is filled with a
> > seething rage toward women and has easy access to
> > guns. The result: mass slaughter....
> >
> > We profess to being shocked at one or another of
> > these outlandish crimes, but the shock wears off
> > quickly in an environment in which the rape, murder
> > and humiliation of females is not only a staple of
> > the news, but an important cornerstone of the
> > nation's entertainment.
> >
> > The mainstream culture is filled with the most
> > gruesome forms of misogyny, and pornography is now a
> > multibillion-dollar industry much of it controlled
> > by mainstream U.S. corporations.
> >
> > One of the striking things about mass killings in
> > the U.S. is how consistently we find that the
> > killers were riddled with shame and sexual
> > humiliation, which they inevitably blamed on women
> > and girls. The answer to their feelings of
> > inadequacy was to get their hands on a gun (or guns)
> > and begin blowing people away....
> >
> > Life in the United States is mind-bogglingly
> > violent. But we should take particular notice of the
> > staggering amounts of violence brought down on the
> > nation's women and girls each and every day for no
> > other reason than who they are. They are attacked
> > because they are female....
> >
> > We would become much more sane, much healthier, as a
> > society if we could bring ourselves to acknowledge
> > that misogyny is a serious and pervasive problem,
> > and that the twisted way so many men feel about
> > women, combined with the absurdly easy availability
> > of guns, is a toxic mix of the most tragic
> > proportions.
> >
> > Read more:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08herbert.html?_r=1
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/nazqyf
> >
>
>
> Well, seems in all fairness I should mention that the the rape,
> murder
> and humiliation of EVERYONE is just great entertainment in the media. We kill
> millions of more men in movies then women, not only that, but we kill them en
> mass in the movies, and war? DAYAM, we have to FIGHT for the RIGHT to go be
> killed in war, as a woman,LOL. When we do kill a woman in the movies it's all
> special and slow like it is a grand event. Just like this poor mentally Ill
> guy, made a HUGE deal out of it, poor bastard, killed himself too, he didn't
> die without the female sex> however, men, its no big deal to kill in the
> movies we apparently feel, or anywhere else. Women and children, thats who we
> shouldn't kill. C'mon, talk about sexism, we can just pop men off like
> scattering seeds in a field. No wonder poor guys feel a little pissed off.
> Having said that, What about the true humiliation we do to women?
>
> I am a woman.Have you driven by the square? I just feel like
> running something over every time I see those stupid dolls. Not that I
> dislike dolls, not that they aren't pretty, but has any one THOUGHT about
> what they represent? And in a "nice" way on top of it all? Let's examine
> this, it is a symbol of a woman, boobs, fashion clothes, and any old dayam
> thing you can find to stick out of its head, a shoe, a stick, it doesn't
> matter. Cuz the important parts are there, she is skewered on a stick so she
> can't leave, she has no power (legs) and she is dressed to be pretty for
> us,nice boobs very visible, with a hat with no head for it, do we REALLY
> REALLY REALLY get what is humiliating about what society tells us we are as
> women? Fawk, its a miracle we aren't mowing MEN down in the gyms. But I'll
> bet 3 ass hairs it's a woman who created those 'pwetty wittle dolls' up
> there. It's the woman who says who REALLY lives and dies. Untill maybe 150
> yrs ago if a mother of an infant died,that baby died too, unless ANOTHER
> nursing mother could be found or by a small chance some goat or cow milk
> would help that baby.
> The ONLY way a man CAN dominate us is by making us think GOD made
> it that way, cuz the truth is, we can go amazon anytime. You take control and
> tell your baby boys how to treat you as a mother and viola, problem solved
> for all society. It is the hurt from the IMBALANCE of this unnatural
> skewering of both men AND women. It doesn't matter who is off in the ying and
> yang,they will both be out of their true inner power if the whole gets
> imbalanced. I don't want my baby boy to die any more then I want my baby girl
> to die, call it his honor or his JOB to DIE or call it what you will, I WILL
> THROW MYSELF IN FRONT OF A BULLET FOR MY BABY BOY ANY DAY ! ! ! And that is
> my honor. Put that up on the fucking square. Give me a face and put a human
> in my arms and I will look far better then tits and dresses on a stick,
> because I AM BEAUTIFUL, in my mind, in my face, in my truth and my reality,
> and I don't need a fancy dress to show it off, I just LIKE a fancy dress, but
> the dress doesn't mean ANYTHING without my face on top of it. At least a girl
> gets to show her face in porn. How come Ken's head never pops off? He is
> always the one shot to hell in a play rocket, he gets melted and buried,
> burned and drowned, but barbie gets played with forever even though her head
> pops off right away. I tell ya, its all sick. WE are SICK. ME and YOU, and we
> gotta know it to stop it and do something better.
>
What was your take on the one with the bikini- someone stole it and I wondered
what their reasoning must have been.
