The Guardian has just run this article.
Mostly, I don't want to comment on any political stuff because: a) I don't understand it and b) it just shows me how sick people really are-and that sickness must reach back to you somehow, in some form, no matter how hard you try to insulate yourself from it or ignore it.
Well, okay, maybe it's not indicative of how backward some people in Israel really are, but I wouldn't be surprised. Probably as backward and retrogressive as people in Palestine or Pakistan or Afghanistan. This isn't really about specific countries or 'religions'...nor is it about the different scales or extent of it...surely it's something more pervasive, some kind of darkness that cuts across those boundaries...a sort of universal fucked-up-ness.
All those years of 'civilisation', of reading, the great works of art and flights of the imagination; all those fine feelings, religious sensibilities, speculative reason, and still, for all that, the same old ridiculous tribalism and stone-age instincts. Jesus!
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disheartening, and terrifying too, that "all those years of 'civilisation'" don't seem to protect us against regressions to "stone-age instincts"
"This isn't really about specific countries or 'religions'...nor is it about the different scales or extent of it...surely it's something more pervasive, some kind of darkness that cuts across those boundaries...a sort of universal fucked-up-ness."
misogyny it is, b, plain and simple. old hat too. same shit different day. common to all large religoins and capitalism. that this is not even being mentioned in the article shows the it's never about the harm to the women, but always about some religious politico ideological whatever from where we can deduce how it's all going downhill whereas this shit always has been going on and will always continue to happen.
(hi flaneur)
yes, anton, i think that's it; instead it will be *used*, no doubt, to make all sorts of 'political' arguments (look at Israel, they're just like the Taleban etc., etc.,) when the real political issue is much more glaringly straightforward: plain old misogyny and fundamental inequalities, aided and nurtured by religion (again, perhaps it's a deflection to say religious *crazies*..though something tugs at me to add that).
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yes, f, very disheartening. but i guess we've always known it's always been there (though men are obviously -and i include myself, of course- less aware of it just as someone who hasn't faced racism is less aware of it).
So, when you say "protect us" that means something else to me (or are you talking about general tribalism and how it affects all of us rather than misogyny?). when you say protect us i instinctively think of, first and foremost, of little r growing up in a warped world.
khair, thanks to both of you for dropping by. I hate writing these posts tagged under politics.
Salams,
b.
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