Begin nigthmares....NOW.
Oct. 17th, 2005 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempike"Do you ever have nightmares in which babies are being sold on auction blocks? If you do not have such visions, you should begin."
I took some old feminist journals from the 1960s/170s out of the library, and this is the first line of the first issue. It's not a particularly encouraging start. The journal's called "No More Fun and Games", and they're not kidding. The articles are, uh, interesting. Apparently homosexuality is unnatural, and only exists because of rigid male/female roles. And girls wearing "diaphanous" minidresses deliberately incite the cat-calls they hate. I dislike these positions, and they do stick to the with us or against us very rigid approach, but I admire their anger and drive. It's easier to do things when you're certain of your right, and to tell people exactly what needs to be done, rather than invite discussion and change discourse and mainstream things. When I worked with Rape Prevention Education the leader used to say "where's the anger", because that was what drove people to create resources and fight against rape, but it seemed to have dropped away. I don't know. I do quite like this poem (although I hate the insult "cock-sucker")
as i was walking along
the gentleman to my left
addressed me as a fat-assed pig
feeling this comment to be neither accurate nor appropriate
i reciprocated by calling him a lecherous old whore-monger
taking no pleasure in his most recently acquired appellation
he proclaimed me a
bitch in heat
i said in reply
that my condition was far more
desirable
than his condition which was that of a mangy cock-sucker
he retorted with fuck you
whereupon i gasped admirably
and waddled on
Jayne West
I took some old feminist journals from the 1960s/170s out of the library, and this is the first line of the first issue. It's not a particularly encouraging start. The journal's called "No More Fun and Games", and they're not kidding. The articles are, uh, interesting. Apparently homosexuality is unnatural, and only exists because of rigid male/female roles. And girls wearing "diaphanous" minidresses deliberately incite the cat-calls they hate. I dislike these positions, and they do stick to the with us or against us very rigid approach, but I admire their anger and drive. It's easier to do things when you're certain of your right, and to tell people exactly what needs to be done, rather than invite discussion and change discourse and mainstream things. When I worked with Rape Prevention Education the leader used to say "where's the anger", because that was what drove people to create resources and fight against rape, but it seemed to have dropped away. I don't know. I do quite like this poem (although I hate the insult "cock-sucker")
as i was walking along
the gentleman to my left
addressed me as a fat-assed pig
feeling this comment to be neither accurate nor appropriate
i reciprocated by calling him a lecherous old whore-monger
taking no pleasure in his most recently acquired appellation
he proclaimed me a
bitch in heat
i said in reply
that my condition was far more
desirable
than his condition which was that of a mangy cock-sucker
he retorted with fuck you
whereupon i gasped admirably
and waddled on
Jayne West
