International Womens Solidarity Day today kiddies, so props to the ladies. The idea that women today are liberated is a myth, the struggle continues.....
"Those who speak of Revolution and class struggle with explicit references to everyday life, without understanding the subersiveness of love and what's positive in the refusal of constraints, they have a cadaver in their mouths"
(Raoul Vaneigem 'The Revolution of Everyday Life' 1967)
So to the ladies who still feel bombarded by arbitrary pressures, and external expectations, more power to you. More than ever in this society, and this time, we have expectations placed on us of the roles we must play to be productive, and acceptible members of the homogenised state. But conventions must exist only to be ignored!
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is mans original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
Oscar Wilde.
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling: And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire."
The media is a new church, it's power to manipulate our very understaning of 'reality' is real, and active. Women today seem increasingly to reflect the values of the cathode ray bible, a bible which, in keeping with the past, is the maifestion of a male hierachies desires, and in no way reflects the roles that women find themselves in today.
The emanciption of the human mind from the "subversiveness of love" and the well being of our communities can never be achieved by one sex alone, men are not truly free until women free themselves of us.
It should go without saying that these things are true of mens struggle also, but seeing as today is for the gals, fellas you'll have to take a sidebar, but don't worry I've got plenty of pinko, lefty propagandha for you too.
I have five older sisters, much older, I'm the youngest by 17 years, that's my justification for that rant.
Hope everyones well have a happy international womens solidarity day.
Peace, chop.
"Those who speak of Revolution and class struggle with explicit references to everyday life, without understanding the subersiveness of love and what's positive in the refusal of constraints, they have a cadaver in their mouths"
(Raoul Vaneigem 'The Revolution of Everyday Life' 1967)
So to the ladies who still feel bombarded by arbitrary pressures, and external expectations, more power to you. More than ever in this society, and this time, we have expectations placed on us of the roles we must play to be productive, and acceptible members of the homogenised state. But conventions must exist only to be ignored!
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is mans original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
Oscar Wilde.
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling: And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire."
The media is a new church, it's power to manipulate our very understaning of 'reality' is real, and active. Women today seem increasingly to reflect the values of the cathode ray bible, a bible which, in keeping with the past, is the maifestion of a male hierachies desires, and in no way reflects the roles that women find themselves in today.
The emanciption of the human mind from the "subversiveness of love" and the well being of our communities can never be achieved by one sex alone, men are not truly free until women free themselves of us.
It should go without saying that these things are true of mens struggle also, but seeing as today is for the gals, fellas you'll have to take a sidebar, but don't worry I've got plenty of pinko, lefty propagandha for you too.
I have five older sisters, much older, I'm the youngest by 17 years, that's my justification for that rant.
Hope everyones well have a happy international womens solidarity day.
Peace, chop.
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The Quickening is the moment when a baby's movement is first felt.....however, I've also read the same word applied to a death as well. The character in the dance work, chooses her death because she loses her own baby. She leaves everything behind.....
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