Excellent
All times, all space reframed
Where Reason rationed
A circular bastion
Of cruel fealty under flags aflame
With heartless passion
Casting darkly fruitful stains
Humanity’s cartographers, a peerless aim
Each grasping claim
Each blasting blame
An art of everlasting shame
Not in my name
Not in my name
Not in my name
Again
Not
In
My
Name
Submitted by Juli
I’ve been thinking about the weekend shootings in Chicago. People get shot in Chicago. People get upset when there are shootings or stabbings or murders. Justifiably so. It’s a horrible and unacceptable occurrence. It’s wrong and no one should have to live under those conditions.
However, women are raped, beaten and murdered EVERY SINGLE DAY. A woman is raped approximately every 2 minutes…beaten as often. Women are tortured, kidnapped, and murdered everyday. So, a few people getting shot over a weekend and a couple of people dying doesn’t seem like such a terrible statistic. The people in charge of the statistics say that rape is mostly unreported. So these stats are just the tip of the iceberg.
If we had a wall for beaten, raped, abused women, like the one for Viet Nam vets, sculptors would have to work on it 24 hours a day and it would never end.
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Hello, it’s The Sister again.
Rebel has a migraine, has had it for about 2 days, and at the moment is not up to blogging
So, I’M TAKING OVER!!!!!
No, really, just wanted to share a picture with you — taken this morning, as dawn started to creep over the houses and hit the Autumn trees.
In full disclosure, this blog was initially inspired by something I saw online about GamerGate. I don’t know anything about GamerGate, except that its supporters and detractors cannot seem to even agree on what it does. For my purposes, and from my point of view, GamerGate doesn’t really matter.
What matters is that there have been hateful, vicious and clearly misogynist threats left on the Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, YouTube channels, and websites of women. Some of these women are in the gaming industries, but some are not. Many are women just like you and me, like your mothers and sisters. Some play games, some are just making comments in support of other women. Many are being threatened.
I’ve seen a lot of arguing back and forth about whether these threatening trolls are involved with the #GamerGate movement; whether or not #GamerGate started to threaten a specific woman; and whether or not those #GamerGate supporters who do not engage in this behavior are guilty by association.
In my opinion, all this talk about #GamerGate is a smoke screen, blocking the real issue — that hatred and violence against women, that abuse in general, is on the rise across the Internet. This reflects the rise in hatred and violence against women which is now found in the “real world” as well. Online, as it were, imitating “real life”.
People need to realize that abuse takes many forms, and sometimes that form is online. Threatening to rape, strangle, beat or kill a woman is a serious threat, in all cases, whether delivered by a note-wrapped rock through a window, on a Twitter feed, or in person.
NO ONE should have to be threatened this way, no one should have to live in fear.
There are those people, I am sure, who think that if a threat is made online, it’s not made in the “real world” and therefore can do no harm. The number of young people who have committed suicide in this country and abroad as a result ob CyberBullying should serve to prove that isn’t the case, but there are those who still believe that if you say it online, it just doesn’t count.
What these people fail to realize is that we live in an increasingly online world, where our information is stored online and much of it — including, in many cases, addresses and phone numbers — are easily available with a short search online.
Whether or not someone who is cowardly enough to make these sorts of threats would go to those lengths to find the person they are threatening; whether the person making the threat is geographically close enough to follow through with these threats is not really relevant.
What is relevant is that the threat is made, and it has a profound psychological impact on the recipient. In many cases, one online threat will prompt additional threats from other people, increasing the terror and humiliation the victim feels.
Whatever the “cause” behind the threats, these threats are nothing more than CyberBullying, which is illegal.
CyberBullying is not restricted to kids harassing each other over something in school. It is any time anyone posts any threat, for whatever reason, and it is, in every case, wrong and inexcusable.
NO ONE EVER DESERVES TO BE THREATENED. Certainly, no one deserves to be threatened because she’s female, doing something that some men feel is something that has been traditionally a male occupation or hobby.
Regardless of what you think about Gamers, or GamerGate or Gaming Journalism, surely we should all be able to understand that.
Happiness
There’s just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
And how can you not forgive?
You make a feast in honor of what
was lost, and take from its place the finest
garment, which you saved for an occasion
you could not imagine, and you weep night and day
to know that you were not abandoned,
that happiness saved its most extreme form
for you alone.
No, happiness is the uncle you never
knew about, who flies a single-engine plane
onto the grassy landing strip hitchhikes
into town, and inquires at every door
until he finds you asleep midafternoon
as you so often are during the unmerciful
hours of your despair.
It comes to the monk in his cell,
It comes to the woman sweeping the street
with a birch broom, to the child
whose mother has passed out from drink.
It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing
a sock, to the pusher, to the basket maker,
and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots
in the night.
It even comes to the boulder
in the perpetual shade of pine barrens,
to rain falling on the open sea,
to the wineglass, weary of holding wine. —Jane Kenyon
Autumn at my house
Cleveland skyline from Huntington Beach.
Une lavande
Sur les bords de la Havel,
c’est un peu d’été.
C’est un peu de lumière
Dans le gris de l’automne.
Wonderful photographs. Hugs, Barbara
My water-themed pictures were taken at la Manzanilla beach, the Amazon River in Peru, Candelabra Island in Peru and my own pool/terrace overlooking Lake Chapala in Mexico. Obviously, I couldn’t choose and actually could have posted hundreds more. Water seems to be my “thing.”
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