Lolita's Fist

#Incels ~ I watch a lot of BBC's 'Who do you think you are' and so many people's histories involve men abandoning their families for new younger women. And in the olden days sometimes leaving previous wives with upwards of five children to fend for. Women couldn't have bank accounts, were prevented from having education, and couldn't sign leases with no husbands.  What did men think would happen? And now, with control over our fertility, and the right to sign a lease without a husband... (although I can tell you I'm old enough to have been discriminated against because I didn't have a co-signing husband). Now men feel 'useless' and are committing suicide. They have to redesign their worth to no longer be based on coercive domination of creatures they have purposefully made weak.  Also, if humans don't return to the opposite of nuclear family (community family or our modern version - state family suppprt) our population bells will crash as we ...

The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination Book by Elizabeth Parker (webinar) "Inside us is a child that is afraid of the wildwood". Why does the forest manifest. Seven elements of the forest: Fear of the forest. Forest is against civilization. Forest is associated with the past, going back to nature. Forest is a landsape of trial. Forest is a setting in which we are lost, decentred and uncertain - we should walk in a straight line to get out. Forest is a threat of being consumed by something in the forest or by the forest itself - I will meld with it. Forest is the site of the unconscious - ego above ground and the darkness below, forest as shadow to civilization. Forest is an anti-christian space - sacrifices, domain if the devil, temptations in the forest. How does fear manifest. The trees are alive. The wolf and the witch wait for you in the forest. The monsters in the forest are us. 'Backwoods' and 'back to the woods...

I am (famous, hehe) for saying if you moved your left eyelash for activism, it's activism and no one should walk behind you and say, "But what about the child refugees in Bosnia", "But what about the deforestation of the Amazon". Activists must be encouraged and supported. No discussion.  For those of us who are ready to tackle the next step, we see the interrelatedness. Like when you understand racism, you understand genderism. Just because we know one word, it opens up the interrelatedness of words and language is learned. The language of straws is linked to the language of the Pacific gyre.  People from one country only learn a few words and get by in another. And they are an integral part of the community, of the social ecology. Similarly, straw refusers play a small but integral part in our world.       ...      Thursday's Cat Media        Tanya Pretorius   |...