Some of my best friends are sacrilegious women. On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 8:32:43 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > In 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, the revolutionary, was murdered in Berlin. > > Her killers bludgeoned her with rifle blows and tossed her into the waters > of a canal. > > Along the way, she lost a shoe. > > Some hand picked it up, that shoe dropped in the mud. > > Rosa longed for a world where justice would not be sacrificed in the name > of freedom, nor freedom sacrificed in the name of justice. > > Every day, some hand picks up that banner. > > Dropped in the mud, like the shoe. > > Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. > > I don't want to write in praise of women. There should be no need. The > particular trials (and terrors and losses and triumphs) of women in a world > that generally prefers to ignore whatever they did or dreamed of doing mean > little to me, much as I love sacrilegious women. I am now sick of the > equality movement in as far as it is based on gender. We need more > equality, but the gender debate is now more often about special pleading, > from new men trying to get inside knickers to posh white tarts breaking the > glass ceiling and turning out to be just as corrupt as the posh white > crooks already up there. > > What i'd like to see us work out is how we can put together a society that > doesn't disable people. "Success" disables other people. Does it matter > if your crap boss is male or female, or that the CEO of Apple is gay? Not > if you've just seen your kid killed in an Apple supply chain mud slide, it > don't. I want to see more sacrilegious women kicking over the traces of > newsroom bimbos (the female on is the one looking dreamily at the male one, > as I understand the ethography), not the sisterhood of posh. >
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