May calmness heal the anxiety, and also the physical ailments, and may the higher wisdom needed for better health come this way asap.
❤️🧡💛💚💖🩵💙💜
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Oooo, but it happens...
"Fire Rainbows: A Rare Cloud Phenomenon"
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/05/fire-rainbows-rare-cloud-phenomenon.html
Processing processes is a process.
Sometimes, I guess suffering is knowing the 70-85% presented too many problems to let you feel able to be around the 15-30% you could have harmonized so well with?
Hungry kids & grown up "kids at heart" can still feel hopeful about positive change.
"These are the times that let us know how true this is: Lots of Beings on The Planet realize that being way less abusive to themselves and others is still completely within the realm of possibility."
At least there's more access to waterfront if you're there in the next life?
"Study finds food insecurity across the Finger Lakes has more than doubled since 2020"
Why are the hungry outnumbering the wealthy? Let a child of privilege find out.
"New report finds 1 in 4 LA residents go hungry: food insecurity remains undercounted nationally. Plus, the starkest difference is felt in Los Angeles County."
https://abc7.com/usc-research-food-insecurity-us-government-hunger-across-america/13189958/
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Glad to know that when I was feeling quite low, this helped!
Grateful for he who told me about an up and coming baseball player who wasn't doing so well but really improved after he saw a sports psychologist. In therapy, the player learned that baseball is full of failures before successes, and even if there are more failures, he could still make the successes feel more significant to him.
Some people I used to work with thought everything they wrote was full of failure, but I always knew it had potential, and they often got much happier with what they had written after revisions.
So, I said to myself, instead of feeling stuck...you can just know:
This is still a draft.
And when you create drafts, you can still turn those drafts into something better.
Aging is great.
Age has made me understand more fully that you really don't know what kinds of curve balls life has thrown at some people.
It's just potato chips & kindergarteners don't need to eat those...
"'Celebrity of the moment' contemplating Hara Kiri after seeing the 'sale' food prices at Big Chain Store is 'All Of Us.'"
~ This came from the wisecracking voice after stopping off at a grocery store.
I just wanna have fun, too... SERIOUSLY
So, after I spend some relaxing time with ol' nature this weekend, maybe there will be some plans to visit Nixon's library and think about all the good things? Like these people did.
Sorry, American Masculinity Crisis
So, maybe they are sexist and indulge in rhetoric that sounds like dog whistles to the incels. But at least they don't shoot and kill people, like that latest active shooter guy! Good luck with following your life's path at this culturally unique time.
Thank goodness for good stretching role models
"Pet food bank...goes "bonkers"..."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-65423373
Hi-ho, human health needs are very compelling.
Patriarchal Ones who 85% of the time are still being huge jerks and 15% of the time are their better selves is still too toxic for this one's health...70/30 is sometimes a minor improvement...what is getting in the way?
I feel disappointed...
"The case of South Korea parallels the lasting effects of Trumpism on conservative nativism in the United States, which attributes economic troubles to asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants. In fact, South Korea’s violent gender polarization reminds us that the true plague lies in populism, and the weaponization of national crises against marginalized groups."
"...& Patriarchy Among Young South Korean Men"
By
Rhys Moon
January 15, 2023
Oh, brutally honest college roommate memory...
She said, "It's terrible to be fat in South Korea. But don't worry, you are not that fat. My husband thinks you're very pretty!"
Pasta? Salad? Why not enjoy both?
"Some studies even found that white males seen as overweight actually earn more. However, the wage penalty for women seen as overweight was consistent in each study.
Economist David Lempert, who worked for the U.S. government for over a decade, found in his analysis that an increase of 10% in a woman's body mass decreased her income by 6%. This wage cut comes on top of the fact that women already earn 20% less on average than men in the U.S."
~ Pallavi Gogoi
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1171593736/women-weight-bias-wages-workplace-wage-gap
They converse sometimes.
About a Mr: "Thanks to my upbringing in a patriarchal society, I'm gonna say a lot of words that are supposed to mean something, but still expect you to be okay with behaviors and conditions that relegate you to a lessser quality of life."
About a Ms: "That is an interesting approach, but ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS."
Having artistic fun with setting boundaries.
"Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkers"
Who knows why that's still their thing.
"You already know they are patriarchal & irresponsible & have weird addictions to dehumanizing & bullying & degrading others because they got materialistically rewarded for that kind of stuff for years. So if you just quit expecting that they'll start acting any differently, that would actually be a lot better for your health."
Quite enjoyed this...and a peek at the moon🌜🌌🌒
Watching it so late put me in another world...🩷🌏🌙
"This dance teacher with her student."
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/132hyay/this_dance_teacher_with_her_student/
Friday, April 28, 2023
It's a healthcare issue!
I have to treat myself to being happy about the good things now because that's just nicer to the human body then being constantly stressed about poverty and other social issues.
What if some of the wealthiest did not act like petty fascist policemen when times got tough?
"Just when you thought some parts of our society couldn’t get any lower, they go even lower. ABC’s Allentown, Pennsylvania affiliate ABC 6 reports that the town’s parking enforcement came out to ticket people waiting in line for food banks. It’s exactly as bad as it sounds."
~ Lawrence Hodge
https://jalopnik.com/pa-parking-enforcement-ticketed-cars-in-food-bank-line-1850383154
“They go, ‘We are the law. You have to respect the law.’ And I mean, this is not the way to work with a community,” he said."
~ Pastor Alejandro Escamilla, Lawrence Hodge
"Situation is 'worst ever'"
"The trust said it was 'particularly alarming' that more than 35,000 emergency parcels were for children."
~ Robbie Meredith
Oh boy, other people's kids certainly are getting that "empirical experience" education.
"'The younger we can work with kids, and understanding that nutritious food is important to everybody and should be accessible to everybody is great, and working with elementary schools give us that opportunity,' said Brian Squire, Second Harvest's youth and family initiatives manager."
"Event aims to reduce stigma around food banks, food pantries"
Versus DESPAIR?
"'Anger’ as more people turn to Trussell Trust food banks than ever before"
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/record-numbers-trussell-trust-food-banks/
Noticed it doesn't say, "She made excuses for their abuses just like the patriarchal norms would have dictated."
"She stood up to oppressors wherever she encountered them, including the machismo of her own organization, the UFW. Though she and Cesar Chavez were colleagues who shared the same vision of fair wages and humane working conditions for agricultural workers, they argued a lot. He would fire her and she would quit. Then she would still be the first one back at work the next morning."
~ Rose Pacatte
https://www.ncronline.org/culture/ncr-today/pbss-dolores-tells-story-dolores-huerta-remarkably-well
Cultural values are also interesting to check...
"Even though my parents doted on me, I still get rewarded for excusing sexism and domestic violence when it happens to others," is another issue to be addressed.
Consider expecting better than abuse and violence, even if
"Don't say no to me! I'll hit you!" was the message you received from the one who provided you with food and shelter once upon a time.
Theoretically, this could happen too?
What if, pretty soon, many start getting better at admitting that they were oftentimes pressured into being sexist & oppressive towards certain kinds of people, & they see those old ways are very detrimental even to their own health and well being, so they have done extensive work on themselves to form some much healthier patterns to follow...
More innovative therapies for older humans also needed?
Today when I was out & heard an adult tell a child "Don't say no to me! I'll hit you!" I wondered if that's why some grown people still get such a strong amount of pleasure from sexism & bullying...and why others still get lots of rewards and validation for making excuses for their abusive behavior???
Grateful for Great Bubbles!
Here's why you should make a habit of having more fun"
Isn't weird to know that even though all the human beings on Earth were born to enjoy life,
The reckless chauvinism which was significantly harmful for your health was apparently just sort of a fun & entertaining activity for others?
COOL FACT!
"The best part is that it was Signe Pritchard, Dr. Jack Pritchard’s wife, who collated the index of this book 😏"
https://twitter.com/placentadoc/status/1651369565073309697
Cool. Fact.
"A small act of resistance from the female indexer of the 1980 edition of Williams Obstetrics."
https://twitter.com/LaraBriden/status/1651048527248891904
Ha, an ovary can laugh! And so can a man!
Lara Briden on Twitter:
"A small act of resistance from the female indexer of the 1980 edition of Williams Obstetrics."
Sounds like a good & healthy way to be thinking about it
"A society advancing towards equality for women is good for everyone’s health and well-being; in fact, feminism could save your life."
~ Alison Brysk and Miguel Fuentes Carreño
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/08/feminism-good-health/
"Alison Brysk is Distinguished Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California Santa Barbara, a former Wilson Fellow, a co-PI of WomanStats, and the author or editor of 15 books on international human rights.
Miguel Fuentes Carreño is a Ph.D. student at UCSB who has interned at the United Nations Population Fund in Egypt and is currently based in Mexico City, where he is working with NGOs advocating for HIV/AIDS, women’s rights and LGBTI+ rights in Mexico."
"Why Feminism is Good For Your Health"
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/08/feminism-good-health/
Prayers for everyone from the babies to the elderly appreciated.
"Those grandparents who got convinced that acting like anti-feminist chauvinists with money were far more important than so many other kinds of living beings on this planet were clearly being very manipulated by certain patriarchal norms, and they probably were capable of being far more trustworthy human beings..."
I hope their new apartments have good sound-proofing
"Civil Rights Leader, Elected Leaders Celebrate New Supportive Housing Project"
Why not change for the better?
"Categories of human beings we have been convinced by patriarchal forces to systemically destroy when it was actually quite unnecessary to do that might not be so happy with some of our decisions."
Yes, the patriarchal anti-feminist antics are universally dehumanizing & uninspiring.
"South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol Used Anti-Feminism to Win Presidency"
https://time.com/6156537/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-sexism/
"American Pie"
🎵
Certain well-off men might also be able explain why
Even though being around sexist people who clearly were trained to "magically unsee" injustice against girls and women in order to get ahead in "the system" felt like huge boost to their egos in the past...
Now they believe that they also are just as deserving of something better as other human beings are. SO, we can expect to see more evidence of that, in the future, sometime very soon????
Surviving societal standards, again.
"Since this man is not as 'mean girl' as some who were brainwashed to be that way by The Patriarchy, you'd better hang out with him instead today. For the time being."
Well, if only...
"People who felt entitled to put the basic needs of girls and women (like food, healthcare, a safe work environment, ability to afford a place to live, etc.) dead last on their list of priorities explain why it felt like such a normal way of going through life for them to belittle other human beings in that way."
Which is better for you to know more about today?
"Everything is About You" and / or "Not Everything is About You."
"It felt like 'fitting in' was on The Agenda."
"How to communicate to a person that you would have been a whole lot better at respecting her as a human being if she were in the body of an entitled, abusive rich man instead.
Just because that's exactly the level of dehumanization of others that the Unwell Patriarchy expected you to repeat."
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Why Can't Every Day Be Another Flower & Rock Worship Day?
Good luck surviving without flowers and pollinators on this planet! Oh, and minerals & crystals, too...
Earth Day Was Quite Floral & Mineral This Year, Again!
Rocks rock.
Rock rocks.
I fully get why blind adherence to Patriarchal Norms is just so familiar and comfortable, sometimes...
When
"I just realized one of the reasons why conservativism is so appealing"
met
"Calling Marianne Williamson kooky reeks of sexism"
https://aninjusticemag.com/calling-marianne-williamson-kooky-reeks-of-sexism-7624c099309a
Start small, value your own body as part of nature, and it will feel more natural to value the rest of nature, which you are also connected to.
"The surprising value of a small patch of grass: to save more nature, think small."
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23433773/bell-bowl-prairie-grassland-illinois-rockford-airport
"Priceless Bell Bowl Prairie Demolished"
https://ilenviro.org/priceless-bell-bowl-prairie-demolished-in-rockford-il/
Maybe they should think about their energy, too.
“'The young people of America are not going to go to war in ’24 for the man who approved the Willow Project. And [establishment Democrats] think I’m not taking the fascist seriously,' she muses.
Again evoking the corporate Democrats, she asks, in a stern, mocking voice, '‘Does she not realize the fascists are at the door?’' She answers, in exasperation: 'No, you are the ones who don’t realize fascism is at the door.'
"It’s not like it’s working, guys! That’s what kills me about the neoliberal establishment," she continues with indignation. 'They’re so self-congratulatory. What are they so freaking proud of? We are six inches from the cliff, in terms of the state of our democracy, the state of our environment, and the state of our economy. And they’re so proud. They have dinners and congratulate each other, and call anyone not playing their game unserious.'
The reception of Williamson reminds me of how journalist Matt Taibbi described the pundits’ attitude in the early 2000s toward Dennis Kucinich, who had many ideas in common with Williamson, including the creation of a Department of Peace. In 2003, Taibbi wrote, 'Welcome to the Dennis Kucinich paradox. The congressman is not serious precisely because he is serious.'"
~ Liza Featherstone, Marianne Williamson
"Paid to mean-girl" is just a temporary refuge...not a fun one, either.
"Williamson is serious. This must be said, because the Democratic Party’s gatekeepers are doing their best to marginalize and mock her. When asked if the president was annoyed that Williamson had announced her primary run, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre had a mean-girl moment: 'I’m not tracking that. I mean, if I had a, what is it called? A little globe here, a crystal ball… if I could feel her aura.'”
~ Liza Featherstone
The universe's ways are mysterious, sometimes!
Yesterday I kept encountering or seeing a certain individual whose energy said that he's quite a kind man, actually, and I was getting a lot feelings like "His appearance belies that he really values treating women of all backgrounds nicely and respectfully, and he does not want to be creepy with them." He had stringy hair that maybe could use a washing, a scraggly beard, a shirt that seemed to make fun of hippies, and a Trader Joe's shopping basket.
Next up, I have never visited a presidential library, and there's one that's not all that far away, so...
Oh wow, that's a new way of looking / living...
"The Riverside-San Bernardino metro, which makes less than eighth of CA and which most Americans do not realize even exists, contains half a million more people than North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska, which collectively control 10% of the US Senate"
Will Stancil on Twitter:
Sounds like this is different this year?
"Billboards spotlight the ‘Real Coachella’ – farmworkers"
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2023/04/21/billboards-spotlight-the-real-coachella-farmworkers
Your life experience is not a lie...
"Ever noticed that the people who have benefited materialistically from systemic inequality not only are NOT the ones who actually feed you / keep you alive, but that quite a few of them developed a terrible tendency towards being abusive, or are constantly making excuses for others who have relied on habitual abusiveness as a way to get through life.
Why?"
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
And she also gave them more helpful information.
"Texas woman denied an abortion tells senators she 'nearly died on their watch'"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/health/abortion-hearing-texas-senators-amanda-zurawski/index.html
Well, embrace that ennui, 'cause nothing is permanent.
"There is definitely an Irish strain of gloominess...but I still think the Japanese win the beauty prize for melancholy...There are always those who prefer not to look beyond a geisha's smile, after all." (64)
"In Japanese, 'floating' (uki) is also a homonym of 'melancholy." (63)
"a tradition exists in which gloom has its place" (64).
~ Liza Dalby,
April 22-26: "floating weeds appear"
East Wind Melts The Ice
Can self-care save society?
"Jose Villa was 41 years old when he began to feel almost too exhausted to work. He was endlessly thirsty, and he found himself getting up as many as eight times a night to use the bathroom.
“My colleagues noticed,” he said in Spanish. “They told me to get checked out because it could be something serious.”
It was diabetes."
~ Kerry Klein
"After a rural California hospital closes, farmworkers pay the price"
I want to make a sandwich...🥪
"'I decided to come here to learn the experience of what it's like being a farmworker, as I come from parents who are immigrants and family who worked in agricultural fields back in Fresno...I thought it would be really interesting to experience it,' said Diaz.
Jesus Avilar is a CSUCI senior, who wants to work in marketing, but today, he is one of the fieldworkers harvesting raspberries. 'My family comes from the world of farm work, but I have had the luxury of not having to do it myself.'"
~ Lance Orozco
"Where does our food come from? Some Ventura County college students become farmworkers for a day"
🍒 Ever live in a body that needs to eat food?🫑
"Food insecurity is tied to many complex issues—including the high and rising cost of living in California—and it is difficult to pinpoint rates of food insecurity among farmworkers. However, one recent policy change has the potential to expand access to nutritional assistance among older farmworkers: CFAP, which currently serves only documented immigrants, will extend coverage to low-income undocumented adults ages 55 and older in 2027. About 8% of undocumented farmworkers are in this age group. This policy shift suggests that although California cannot control macroeconomic conditions, natural disasters, or federal immigration policy, state-led improvements to the nutritional safety net can make food more accessible for the workers who plant, tend, and harvest California’s crops."
~ Paulette Cha
🌾🍇Sounds promising 🔥🌎
"From Farmworkers to Land Healers"
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/04/25/california-farmworkers-immigrant-indigenous
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
More to process, as ever...
Observing all the new ways another's face twitches while reading through the comments...is life really that full this evening...
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/12yslqv/this_girl_has_a_special_bond_with_her_horse/
Feeling curious about
'The Sit In’: When Harry Belafonte Hosted ‘The Tonight Show"
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/the-sit-in-harry-belafonte-the-tonight-show-1234584836/
🎼 🌬️ How it is sometimes...🎵
Musical energy has been circulating.
Yesterday, as I was going to bed, an image of a man saying "Aw, Papa Jones" in a sad way, like someone had died, came to mind, so I looked up Quincy Jones, but there was no news there, so I just decided to remember it happened, and then today I read that Harry Belafonte died.
A good feeling.
I am getting better at learning more about how nature and energy can be paid attention to for the purpose of being more healed and balanced in this kind of body. I don't have money or a large house or land, but I am finding out how one learns to do these kinds of things anyways.
Monday, April 24, 2023
Chevy, Cadillac, or Rolls Royce?
"These women ran an underground abortion network in the 1960s. Here's what they fear might happen today"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/23/health/abortion-lessons-jane-wellness/index.html
Sometimes I wonder if all the "But no research papers about abortion" teachers are still needing to feel buffered.
Maybe so?
"The Associated Press on Twitter: BREAKING: North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed into law a ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy — even in cases of rape or incest. It's among the strictest abortion bans in the U.S. and takes effect immediately."
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1650622727001186311
Maybe so.
Might be fun to revisit:"The Chair" soon.
"Where was 'The Chair' filmed?"
https://www.atlasofwonders.com/2021/08/where-was-the-chair-filmed-pembroke-college.html
I really enjoyed how "The Chair" made academia seem a lot funnier & nicer than what I experienced in real life!
I feel like eating something made from something that was grown somewhere 🍞🫐🌻
"California cities, counties can sue oil companies over climate change"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/supreme-court-oil-companies-climate-17915300.php
What's your dad's or mom's favorite crop🌻?
"CROP | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/crop
How do you know he/she/they likes it?
So honestly...it's like...Siiiiigh...
"Sometimes X's anxiety makes him act like a bully who puts down others and props up abusers, but it also makes him money so he can pay for some people to be able to afford better houses with good air-conditioning, and I think everyone here respects that in these times of economic challenges and climate change."
Very very very very.
I don't have a garden now but I think working in one after 10 am when the weather gets hot is very hard on the body.
If the descendants get to be more creative about it...
Why shouldn't the elders also deserve more. "How to have way less tolerance for misogynistic bullying in your lifestyle than what was role-modeled for you previously..." in this lifetime?
Another exciting development...
"More & more people are beginning to realize that they do want to change the systemic stuff that's been oppressing 'others' and their kids.
Because it actually also wasn't so great for the well-off or for their kids, either."
At least "more people care" now.
"More people care, but it's not suddenly equal. It's still pretty sexist, to be honest. Every phase of the business, whether it's financing, distribution, the reviewers, all those people are mostly men. To get a female driven story that is appealing mostly to women through all these levels of male dominated business, it's not that easy."
~ Heather Graham, Dana Rose Falcone
https://people.com/movies/heather-graham-calls-out-sexist-hollywood-exclusive/
Pretty good guy...
"Adrian Flores Rosas volunteered for Saturday’s packaging effort. He is a former farmworker and mentioned how difficult the job can be. He tells CBS 17 whether it’s treats to eat in the field or a change of socks, these workers will enjoy the help.
'It comes in handy and it’s just good to know that someone cares and is doing a little good, it keeps your spirits high,' Flores Rosas said.
The group said it will start distributing the packages next month."
~ Joseph Holloway
https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/group-makes-care-packages-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-nc/amp/
There's more to life than being a servant to such patriarchal unkindness.
Instead of encountering openness to creativity, you kept running into cult mentality. COLONIZED.
Sorry to know that Unwell, Abusive Patriarchal People still need so many to make excuses for them.
They are still making FAR too many excuses for other unwell abusive patriarchal people to be at all trustworthy or open to real, healing change, is what an intense figure seemed to communicate to me in another dream (and that particular dream did not include a crying Elvis figure, this time.)
For how long will that continue? Geez.
It's amazing what you learn about what you don't know.
I have to learn how to get SO MUCH better at taking care of my body for the rest of this lifetime just to SURVIVE.
What if your body just needs something BETTER????
"Sandra Oh Reveals 'I Think My Whole Body Was Very, Very Sick' While Filming 'Grey's Anatomy'"
https://sports.yahoo.com/sandra-oh-revealed-her-sudden-195612432.html
"Sandra Oh Isn't Waiting for White Male Directors to Cast Her"
https://jezebel.com/sandra-oh-isnt-waiting-for-white-male-directors-to-cast-1850128327
"Sandra Oh Won’t Return To Grey’s Anatomy Because She Has A Big New Netflix Show Coming"
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/05/10470716/sandra-oh-greys-anatomy-return-the-chair-netflix
via
https://twitter.com/IamSandraOh/status/1392608966056710148
BUT NEVERTHELESS...
"Grey's Anatomy Season 19"
https://screenrant.com/greys-anatomy-season-19-cristina-yang-return-tease/
Yes, & it might be good to re-visit Wharton's novel. Plus, some reviews...
Freshman year at an all girls school in the 90s: "Here's your whistle, and everyone will be slogging* through The House of Mirth together."
(*You will appreciate it more in grad school.)
BACK THEN, as A Youngling:
"She's a good writer, I'll give her that, she makes me despise them, too, but do I really want to live through 300 more pages of this?"
"Dana Stabenow’s review of The House of Mirth"
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/149716345
A decade or so later, as an OLDER Youngling:
"At minimum, Wharton illustrates that self-determination and self-reliance are one thing when you're living in a cabin in the woods, growing beans, and contemplating existence during solitary sojourns around Walden Pond, but quite another in the company of others -- particularly a circle of others fixated upon a set of mores or, more strictly, rules. Reaching further, perhaps, Wharton exposes a stark line between the wherewithal of men and women in American society to 'go Thoreau'. In other words, The House of Mirth may temper Transcendentalism by portraying the profound influence of the company one keeps on reaching into oneself and, beneath that, the harsh reality of being a woman within that company."
"Jason (New York, NY)’s review of The House of Mirth"
Wonder if I should re-watch "The House of Mirth" film, too?
Had flashbacks of discussing it with classmates at a professor's house! But not just because David Duchovny was in "The Chair." Back in the early 2000s, it seemed like everyone was so surprised at the other "X files" star being cast as the lead...
https://lithub.com/how-to-adapt-edith-wharton-in-praise-of-terence-daviess-the-house-of-mirth/
"Anderson seems an unexpected choice as Lily. Apparently Davies saw a still of her in 'The Mighty' (1998) and made her his first choice. Her success on 'The X-Files' might seem to disqualify her, but Anderson's talent has many notes, and I liked the presence she brought to Lily Bart. It would be wrong, I think, to cast the role as a fragile flower; Lily is a strong, healthy and competent woman who has everything she needs to lead a long and happy life, except (1) a husband, or (2) a society that provides for independent women."
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-house-of-mirth-2000
"The Chair" was more fun to watch than I expected.
"Netflix's 'The Chair' is a needed yet unrealistic depiction of academia"
https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/netflixs-chair-needed-yet-unrealistic-depiction-academia
"20 Joan Moments On Netflix's 'The Chair' That Remind Us That Holland Taylor Is The GOAT"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/staceynguyen16/holland-taylor-moments-on-netflix-the-chair
"'The Chair' Isn't The Satire You Think It Is"
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alessadominguez/netflix-the-chair-review-sandra-oh
For how much longer?
"We would just like to reiterate that catering to abusive sexism at the expense of your health and human rights is immensely important to my friends and I."
A little window into another world, for some.
"Emily Ratajkowski Quit Acting Due to Sexism"
https://www.indiewire.com/2023/04/emily-ratajkowski-quit-acting-due-to-sexism-1234826325/
“'I thought about the way that [Bear-McClard] had glided through the room, a room full of men who only two years before had been kissing Harvey Weinstein’s ring and encouraging their young female clients to take meetings with him in hotel rooms,' Ratajkowski wrote in her 2021 memoir. 'I hated that my husband was at all connected to these men.'”
~ Samantha Bergeson
"Still so hard for him to think about those kinds of human beings, for some reason?"
"All the ones I could've been good to if my enablers & I weren't constantly being materialistically rewarded for acting like abusive guys are the most important kinds of people to accommodate and make excuses for."
What kinds of healthcare do they need?
Abusive, controlling, sexist, self-absorbed men who are surrounded by enablers who would treat other kinds of human beings so much better if they weren't also surrounded by abusive, controlling, sexist, self-absorbed men?
If what?
"Here's to all the kinds of humans our enablers and us would love to thank for their service, and maybe we won't keep on being addicted to dehumanizing them anymore in the future, especially if..."
They just act like that because...
Their greed is a form of grief?
There was a dream about Elvis crying, too...
They are needing to get needs accommodated again, Monday?
"But the people who are addicted to catering to abusive rich guys at the expense of others could still be doing much so better, even for themselves! And the abusive rich guys could have been doing better things with their on Earth, too. What is wrong with you? Hello?"
Saturday, April 22, 2023
🍀 Earth Day 💕
Earth Day is another opportunity to love and care more for our very beautiful planet in this lifetime.
Friday, April 21, 2023
Although we are Very Different...
Tonight I realized I can have empathy for famous baseball players who have to stop because of anxiety. Not being able to work because of such a recurring state is not a vacation.
Is this why one might have a dream about blood clotting?
"...in more unequal countries (such as the UK and the US), compared with the least unequal ones (Norway, Finland and Japan). We’re more prone to chronic stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, unnecessary spending and ruinous gambling. Remarkably, people of lower status in hierarchies have higher levels in their blood of a clotting factor called fibrinogen, implying that their bodies are constantly on high alert to heal potential wounds. Advertisers, we learn, spend less money in more equal societies, such as Denmark, because their citizens are less motivated by status purchasing. In the most unequal societies, by contrast, people are more prone to 'a defensive, narcissistic presentation of self': we risk, it seems, creating a society of mini-Trumps all clawing at one another’s hairpieces.'"
~ Anna Johnston
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/20/the-inner-level-review
I should be at a park right now for self-administered nature therapy.
"Ladies, is anxiety interfering with your life?"
https://www.hotzehwc.com/blog/how-to-prevent-anxiety-and-panic-attacks/
But since I am still waiting for "Working on His Day Off," what do I do? I read the internet when I should be frogging a washcloth or something else that's good for my health, hormones, whatever.
I am gonna go anyway.
Mom? Is that YOU?
“They're always struggling with food insecurity themselves and, and it's just really ironic, because they're the ones that provide us with the food security we need for this nation.”
~ Martinez Zaragoza, Samantha Lomibao
https://kesq.com/news/2023/04/20/farmchella-celebrates-hard-work-of-coachella-valleys-farmworkers/
This could be a gift to all the lucky WIC-y duckies.
"It 'Rained' Inside"
https://people.com/politics/michelle-obama-rain-white-house-story/
Especially if someone entertaining with a "Naughty with The Ladies" past came along with a camera crew to lift up PEOPLE'S spirits?
What happens when you get distracted from higher level thinking?
"I guess they won't be collaborating on 'When Yoon Sok Yeol jumped into X's pasty white American Entertainment Industry Body' anytime soon."
Thursday, April 20, 2023
HAPPY almost Earth Day. GOOD EARTH & GOOD PEOPLE DESERVE ♥️😊🍃🌎🌷🙏🎶😇
Things are gonna get better and healed'r, at least with some people, in some places. ~ Optimistic Voice
Good things, probably!
"Oh no, what will happen if the 'Taking Responsibility Instead of Avoiding or Deflecting by Pointing Out Others Who are Obviously Way Worse about Oppressing People" Workshop catches on?
A holiday from their old way of thinking.
Retreats for some narcissistic people who really do want to figure out how to stop being addicted to abusive patriarchal misogynistic patterns and learn how to feel good about realizing that dehumanizing others way less than they got accustomed to doing would be so healthy and refreshing for them.
Why don't they go on a holiday?
Ladies & gentlemen who'd be less inclined to normalize putting down those with lower status and income, especially girls and women, and even themselves, if they hadn't been so bombarded with such manipulative abusive patriarchal messages.
What if "Alternative Spring Break" became the norm?
“Have empathy and compassion. Listen to our stories and recognize our humanity. Treat us with dignity.”
https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-news/we-should-care-about-farmworkers-all-year/
"Better than awful Andrew Tate, at least?"
Maybe, but just because some of your parents still choose to act like the predatory unsafe abusive rich guys are the most important kinds of people, just to fit in with other gaslighting, toxic people, doesn’t mean it's healthy or that you should copy their choices.
MUCHO mejor.
It is entirely within reason to imagine a much better future. Because if some patriarchal people weren't so addicted to conforming to abusive patriarchal norms, they wouldn't keep on gaslighting others, and that would behoove so many members of our society in lots & lots of ways.
Be better to human beings.
"What ‘Beef’ star David Choe’s rape story says about America -
Choe’s vile 2014 story of sexual assault enables rape culture to flourish, whether it’s fiction or not."
Yes, you can care more than what some your elders role-modeled. Right?
Ever just imagine how nice it would have been if certain really self-absorbed patriarchal people had actually wanted to act like X Type of Human Beings deserve even the most basic amount of respect & human rights, which they do?
Ready for TOMORROW?
"Since farm workers aren't ever invited to the Coachella Festival, the community is coming together to celebrate the farm workers and their families : FARMCHELLA!"
https://www.celebration-nation.org/farmchella-the-farmworker-festival
Ready for...
Husband who carries ALL the laundry (2 duffel bags and one full basket 😌) & says "I am a sherpa!" proudly?
Ready for...half hour episodes with neat architecture?
https://www.vulture.com/article/the-chair-recap-season-1-episode-1-brilliant-mistake.html
The Chair Recap, Season 1 Episode 1: Brilliant Mis
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Speaking of reasons why...
"The Horrifying and Shameful Return of Child Labor"
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/return-child-labor-immigration/
Just because you're not the ACLU doesn't mean you have to be so unwell.
And it's weird to see how easily some fall into petty "mean girls" (& guys) types of behavior just to fit in with whatever bullies happen to be on their colonized playground that day
Might be fun too: Donate your "Music Festival Only Accessible to The Wealthy" tickets
"were $50 per day...Now, general admission passes for 2023 are $549..."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/noradominick/coachella-behind-the-scenes-facts
"FARMCHELLA : THE FARMWORKER FESTIVAL APRIL 20, 2023"
https://www.celebration-nation.org/farmchella-the-farmworker-festivalToday's a new opportunity to break away from old patterns...
"New York Times: Biden Admin Ignored Warnings About Migrant Child Labor, Punished Whistleblowers"
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/19/biden_migrant_child_labor
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
PTSD trigger reminds a soul on Earth
People Truly Should Know They Are Connected & Deserve So Much Better.
I cried yesterday and I miss reading my books on an island where people are priced out of living ever again
Emily Climbs and how she and her friend walked around at night and slept in a hay stack.
Sweet innocent days.
Why I read through a boxed set of Anne of Green Gables that I inherited when the pandemic started, and I walked around almost naming places with fairy feelings...in a different town in California, where it's also probably too expensive to live now?
And so is this one?
Where is it not?
And you wonder why it still is so?
"Rape culture requires a good degree of cognitive dissonance from people with power. It relies on people who control industries to accommodate men who rape. That process creates a culture in which rape is normalized, minimized, joked about and ultimately embraced as a way of life."
3:39 PM · Apr 17, 2023
70.3K Views
Violently unhealthy the 2020s patriarchal cult of celebrity still is.
"The sound on my first TikTok ever was removed due to a community guideline violation. It’s merited given @davidchoe's description of this brutal sexual assault. Waiting to hear why @aliwong and @steveyeun made a decision to give Choe this platform. Silence really speaks volumes."
https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1647017287986339840
Maybe celebrities will be bonding over how much the kids deserve better than rape culture soon.
Too.
"Ali Wong & Kelly Clarkson Discuss Being Working Moms"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavouloumanos/ali-wong-kelly-clarkson-mom-tips
Are people in show business all set to have conversations that are less rape culture-y?
"Ali Wong and Steven Yeun Face Backlash After Horrific Clip of Co-star David Choe Joking About Rape Resurfaces"
https://bust.com/tv/199311-ali-wong-steven-yeun-face-backlash-over-david-choe-controversy.html
Monday, April 17, 2023
But clearly, not everyone feels the same!
I think just because a guy farmworker is oppressed, he shouldn't sexually harrass another farmworker, including any adults or minors who are working RIGHT NOW.
But look...
Ha-ha. The Dysthymia will be spiritually evolving into gentle humor quite sooon...
"It's not right that my husband should do all the cleaning, so I pay for a cleaning gentleman to do it for him," Claire, CEO
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1644958598890414083
Ask a few Pained Patriarchal People to go deeper than...
How to get Directors & Actresses to act like you are more important than everyone else.
"F. Murray Abraham Was Kicked Off ‘Mythic Quest’ for Sexual Misconduct"
Just like the Olden Toxic Days of Last Friday.
"Eight Women Accuse Morgan Freeman of Sexual Misconduct"
There are so Many Ways & Reasonings behind these kinds of issues that you are still having.
love the BASIC values of
How to make the Directors and Actresses act like you are more important than anyone else again.
Probably needs a vacation from Patriarchy, too.
The "'Really can't decide if I wanna be nice or mean, so I try to do both, which naturally makes me skew more towards being mean' dad."
Well, they're gonna get a special foodbank experience too, someday?
When folks who you used to like but who got systemically rewarded for being dehumanizing to certain categories of human beings (that you just so happen to belong to) reincarnate.
Maybe some with addictions to certain coping mechanisms or patterns need more time to heal.
This weekend, it was suggested to me that narcissists feel the need to have a lot of "flying monkeys" and dependents to do their bidding.
Maybe the ones who act like they are bullies addicted to controlling others just have fear & insecurity issues, and that's why they get pulled into bullying certain types of people more than others.
Perhaps that is why some still feel they have to keep on gaslighting and manipulating others in very unhealthy ways just to have a sense of control over their own reality.
Patriarchal Norms may prefer that certain people act like narcissists, or like insecure dependents who rely upon gaslighting others to pretend their systemic dehumanizing is okay, but how could that ever be sustainable?
And why do you suppose some will never be able to act like making Unhealthy Patriarchy #1 at the expense of real human beings is their purpose in this life?
Sunday, April 16, 2023
So they said 🍑
A few years ago, there was a patch of violet wild flowers that were mostly yellow and smelled like peaches.
https://agrowingpassion.com/episode-705-the-big-bloom/
What's happening with birds and flowers, etcetera?
Voices in dreams advised paying more attention to those.
Re-visiting visuals
That means you very recently saw a monk, some wild flowers, and a cute stuffed black cat toy on an old discarded table before you went inside.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Tomorrow, tomorrow, the next generation will care about human rights and climate change more
"'There ought to be some kind of compensation for these people or at least accountability and I'm not seeing any of that,' Dr. Lopez said."
~ Lauren Martinez
Friday, April 14, 2023
It's hard to grow everything you eat...
"'It’s almost the same as living on the street’: this is how people picking your vegetables have to live"
This just appeared...
“'Judge de Alba watched her mother and grandmother struggle with unfair treatment, as they worked together in some of the hardest jobs in the world,' said Padilla. 'She decided that one day, she would become a lawyer to help families like her own.'"
~ Juan Esparza Loera
"President Biden nominates the daughter of Central Valley farmworkers to Ninth Circuit Court"
Humor is often based on personal experiences.
"Cheap Restaurants Are The Canaries im The Coal Mine."
https://yasminnair.com/cheap-restaurants-are-the-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/
Chefs & Writers.
"The restaurant industry is one of the worst workplaces: long, sweaty hours doing repetitive and often dangerous work, abusive behaviour in an intensely high-pressure environment, sexual harassment from co-workers, and bosses who have absorbed the idea that being a 'great chef' requires you to be a tyrant. Chefs, often male, are like writers."
~ Y. Nair
Need To Eat, Too!
"If you’ve ever been near a pack of male writers, you know that the air around them stinks of cheap cigarettes and bad alcohol and the desperate if often fake horniness of adolescent men who feel the need to prove to their fathers that, yes, They Are Men. Their awkward and careless misogyny is how they assert their masculinity. Similarly, chefs have to deal with the societal stigma attached to cooking, and each one ponders: 'How do I prove I can make this fantastic dish that involves stirring pasta like my grandmother and also prove that I have a sturdy penis?' The macho bullshit that so many male chefs engage in—the shouting, the abusive behaviour, the tattooing, the loudly announced and detailed accounts of their sexual adventures—all of that is a way to mark themselves as men, men, MEN, damn it."
~ Y. Nair
Oh, well, that's how the human rights cookie crumbles sometimes.
"The 1950s want her back."
https://twitter.com/Mindyobizziness/status/1643988336632283146
"Right-wing commentator Anna Perez is genuinely outraged that Princess Peach in the new Super Mario Bros. movie is not portrayed as 'a helpless princess': 'Young women see stuff like this and it just brainwashes them to be a feminist.'"
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1643986134320685056
Did not mean he had to become one when he "grew up."
Just because some grandparents acted like their version of democracy was all about pampering a few needy, abusive, wealthy patriarchal dudes...
This has been going on for twenty two years!
"Clothesline Project raises sexual assault awareness on college campuses"
Well, that is good to know.
"I definitely cared about what happened to Anita Hill and so many other real human beings."
This is a 2020s phenomenon.
"Madison Brooks Foundation hosts LSU campus event on sexual assault awareness"
But change can happen anyway.
I can't say "I remember my generation standing up for themselves and others on this issue," but the younger generations can.
The houses, dolls, donations, etcetra are not the things that deeply heal humanity...
Moms or Dads who think they need to magically unsee actual real stuff that's going on around them in exchange for money or support from others who have those habits, too, are not doing it for their kids, or even for themselves. And they most certainly are not doing it for the other moms or dads or their kids. Not even the ones they hang out with. They're just doing that because going along with what The Patriarchally Trained told them to do is a habit they developed in order to get ahead and survive.
Not all of the Patriarchally Influenced
Comedians or Politicians have more in common with Clarence Thomas than they have with Anita Hill, but it's amazing how many of them make abusive men and money their Number One priorities.
They don't like you, and they are COLONIZED.
Ladies and dudes who feel the need to act like sexual predators are the most important just because they're rich men.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Sounds lovely, like it's a party where you can wear your pin.
"I Believe Anita Hill Party Comes Back For Another Year"
Can't believe a rich dad who lives to be a champion of equality wouldn't be supported.
If he just...would be...a little...less...insensitive?
Sexual assault survivors of all ages and backgrounds can care more about their human rights
So the dads and moms who were raised to have with issues doing that don't have to evolve too quickly? It's a very strange situation.
I hope you realize not everyone is able to do that
Even if your parents are still addicted to acting like wealthy, irresponsible, sexist, abusive men are the most important kinds of human beings on the planet (because that is what suits their Patriarchally Informed Lifestyle Choices, or something?)
O holy early morning...i am humble & i pray.
I am going to ask for the angels and energy healers to bless this Earthly Life with Greater Higher Wisdom & Healing Powers.
Memory after a music trigger.
My friend said one of several guys that got evicted from her apartment complex came back and started screaming "Call the cops! Arrest me! I have no money! I have no food! I'm cold!" Late at night. And she showed me pictures of their cats that wander around now and get some food. And she tried to call some places to foster them, and got lots of likes and hearts on Facebook, but no takers.
Someone outside or nearby is blasting Lauren Daigle's "You Say."
Tough Times, Brethren!
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Now a Ghost Insight.
"Maybe the reason X acts that way is because parts of X do kind of feel like they've lived a disgusting life."
"That means changes are inevitable."
Ghost says, why don't you relax and read a tabloid.
"Jerry Lee Lewis's 13-year-old bride said she had to be 'the adult'..."
With the way things are going, I'm sure there's lots more young people being "the adults" out there.
Grapes, pistachios and oranges...
And "the country’s largest-ever academic survey of farmworker health."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/after-a-rural-california-hospital-closes-farmworkers-pay-the-priceFeeling grateful for "Call the Midwife."
What to do with purple paint...
And watching it never gives me that "Women paid by sexist guys to act like they don't care about their own human rights or anyone else's" feeling.
And what would that be like?
“You survive, then move on to the next place and just hope it doesn’t happen again.”
Wouldn't thriving be better than just surviving?
Surviving In Scrubs on Twitter: "Help us to fight..."
https://twitter.com/ScrubSurvivors/status/1539231036504145920
"Sexual assault, crude banter — what it’s like to be a female surgeon"
They can do it.
Why should they not be much better at treating women and girls as human beings than an unwell patriarchal society expected of them?
"This should come as no surprise"
"The report revealed that perpetration of sexual assault and harassment are at an all-time high and that there’s been little meaningful progress in preventing or prosecuting sexual misconduct.
This should come as no surprise since Defense Department policy discourages the formal reporting of sexual harassment."
~ Ashley Merryman
How many in the '90s wanted a pin that said, "I Believe Anita Hill"?
"Anita Hill addresses gender-based oppression at Omaha event"
I am sure they did that because they believe they deserve more respect than what has been communicated.
"More than 70 Students Protest Embattled Harvard Professor Comaroff’s Continued Employment"
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/13/comaroff-walkout/
“Don’t let professors be your heroes. Don’t let survivors be your heroes. We’re not heroes. We’re TFs,” Kilburn said. “We don’t have some kind of superhuman capacity to take this fight on. We are doing it anyway.”
Czerwienski said that “only a mass movement” would effectively dismantle “this broken system.”
~ Darley A.C. Boit, Charlotte P. Ritz-Jack, and Elias J. Schisgall, Crimson Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
I don't think it was because of reading
How did you acquire "I wouldn't be the worst at being friends with you if I weren't always being friends with the ones who are the worst to you" at age double digits like other people's offsprings?
What's repetitive and needs to change?
"Certain dads are self-medicating by dehumanizing people like you again."
Been dissatisfied with your "special cruelty to rape victims" culture
"Anti-abortion GOP in Iowa takes radical turn with special cruelty to rape victims
Rachel Maddow looks at a new Republican anti-abortion policy in Iowa that women who have been raped will no long be given emergency contraception, not even drugs that would prevent pregnancy in the first place."
Even if it already happened... tomorrow can be different.
"DON'T LET YOURSELF BE COLONIZED"
“The irony is we already have the power. We just don’t know it and we don’t exercise it. Or we abdicate it. We saw that in the last election. How many women voted the way their husbands wanted them to vote? How many women when we are electing somebody, who with his own words, admits to sexually assaulting women…does that mean that we don’t even have the pride to stand up for ourselves? For our own bodies, and for each other?"
*****
"So many women think how can my father or my brother or husband that loves me want to keep me down just because I’m a woman? It doesn’t have any rationale. It has no explanation. It’s just that it’s been that way a long long time and it’s wrong."
~ Dolores Huerta
Monday, April 10, 2023
Sisters, Brothers, Music Lovers...?
"Carlos Santana Says Dolores Huerta Film Will Inspire ‘Sisters of All Ages’"
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/carlos-santana-dolores-huerta-film-interview-8262164/
"Movie review: 'Dolores' doc, music driven..."
Yes.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/dolores-huerta/
This film could make you cry.
"PIONEERING ACTIVIST DOLORES HUERTA — AND A ROUSING NEW DOC — WON’T LET HISTORY WRITE HER OUT"
Sunday, April 09, 2023
"Dolores came up with the slogan 'Sí Se Puede."'
"Watch 'DOLORES Official Theatrical Trailer' on You..."
Y: Do you think that guy ever got more help and changed his ways?
X: That one blatantly predatory professor with tenure who also liked talking about being the father of a daughter? I have no idea. I just know he's definitely not the only one who got rewarded for relying on abusiveness as a coping mechanism for dealing with his own pain.
Just learned that Cate Blanchett speaks German...
"Watch 'Cate Blanchett on her new film, the role of women and her commitment to refugees'" | maischberger
Supportive Wives are Interesting On Screen, Too.
Cate Blanchett pulled off a sympathetic portal of Phyllis Schlafly. Who could do Ginni Thomas?
Gratitude Journal: Sunday is Day Off From "The Male Gaze," Whee!
"Capitalism & Patriarchy are Inseparable"
https://www.thegazelle.org/issue/199/opinion/capitalism-patriarchy-inseperable
Alas, the "rich get richer and the poor are further exploited" problem would still pain Jesus & others.
"The male gaze influences the way women 'choose' to create their appearance. Women are told they can be liberated by expressing themselves through what they adorn their body with. But consumerism thrives as these products become more trendy and more in demand for women to convey their sexuality, personality and gender. The rich get richer and the poor are further exploited as consumerism thrives. The factories in which these lavish and beautiful items are being produced are directly abusing women who are laboring to make these items in what would be 'developing nations' from the standard of Western supremacy. The women in these factories work in order to survive, under the threat of violence. The responsibility is shifted from the exploiters to the masses as these women are hurt by imperialism and globalization."
~ Ellie Allan
Sorry to be reminded that another Patriarch was Unbalanced by Their Values, Too.
The guy that so many people used to deride Anita Hill for her supposed "betrayal & failure to support abusive men like the patriarchy trained girls and women to want to do" apparently is another man who has had some greed & dishonesty issues, it seems?
"Justice Clarence Thomas says trips with billionaire didn't need to be disclosed at the time"
"She was sold to a man when she was 15 years old"
"Op-ed: Farmworkers’ vicious cycle of precarious employment, exploitation and climate change"
https://www.ehn.org/united-farmworkers-2659419671.html
"She was sold to a man when she was 15 years old, had a baby and eventually was rescued. She was Guadalupe Martinez Rios, my grandmother."
“We cannot be complacent with the exploitation of these vulnerable workers.”
Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos
Choosing To Align With Sexist Zealots Feels Degrading & Unnecessary & Not The Best Way
Even though Man Whose Scruples Reflect Those of The People He Hangs Out With still acts like as long as a few women get nice houses, eroding the rights of so many women and girls will be par for the course...as roadmap for life, that is simply and substantially WRONG for you.
YOU WERE SO SEXIST
"'Worthless Compared To A Predator with Money' Will Return With More Complicit Parents Whose Daughters Will Have To Overcome A Lot."
But WHY?
"Now that we're grown-ups, if you were a man with money who harrassed women, I would only value you MORE!"
Back to Adulthood Now...
"All the Predatory Dudes That Single Mom Has To Pamper To Get Ahead of The Game That Penalizes Single Moms HARD."
Distracted from blandness by own thoughts, again...
For real, what if they could rewire their brains' pleasure centers so they didn't get all high off being patriarchal & oppressive?
Saturday, April 08, 2023
Maybe their pleasure processing brain parts got messed up by who they were always hanging out with
Certain kinds of people probably would be better at treating others well if they were actually enjoying their own nice food and housing and superior healthcare a lot more. Donate To Foodbanks!
Yep, don't have to get up early to pick my own antioxidants even though the climate is a' changin'
"You get to stay up and watch comedy show for abusive colonizer mentality tonight too if you do choose, you know!"
Also, the "so-called 'privileged'" may even deserve more.
"Because why should they be so mean? Perhaps they don't think they deserve help, and they got more rewarded for being controlling & cruel, so unjustly, they also apply those ungenerous and unhealthy standards to many others who have always deserved better?"
Seems like an easy enough lifestyle change
What if "the old man's coping mechanism was feeding an addiction to dehumanizing others" spent some time with people who had better habits that might rub off on him?
Just thinking about "US"
"Allergic to Justice and Addicted to Their Own Warped Versions of 'Fairness'" will return after a word from their sponsors."
******
"We Can’t Make Healthcare Fair Until We Reject the Logic of Scarcity"
Yes, U Can!
Have you ever pondered whether having enough to eat a healthy diet qualifies as Healthcare?
And then, Number 2
Why does your daughter have such a hard time respecting girls & women, meaning all of them, not just a privileged few with "almost a rich dude" status.
Why does your son have such a hard time respecting girls & women, meaning all of them, not just a privileged few with "almost a rich dude" status.
Why do you have such a hard time respecting girls & women, meaning all of them, not just a privileged few with "almost a rich dude" status.
Number 1
Why does your husband have such a hard time respecting girls & women, meaning all of them, not just a privileged few with "almost a rich dude" status.
A "Healthcare & Fairness" piece
"Fairness is commonly spoken about among people in power."
Lily Sanchez
Did you ever dream you were gonna have kids...
And it was so real, and then you woke up and were like "Ha, silly dream!"
Probably therapy could help.
A "hungry to get the most attention at the expense of others" person wasn't born to always be that way.
Why? Well, why not?
Why does any pampered wealthy guy who has been surrounded by many women and men who were trained to treat him far better than the many kinds of women and girls and human beings they've been rewarded for dehumanizing and exploiting for years have to have feelings about that kind of classist, racist, sexist situation?
Well another POV is available.
It's not that Sexist Oppressive Ones who were trained to derive enjoyment from harming others are exactly the SAME as Trump...It's just that the ppl who make excuses for them and the ppl who make excuses for Bad American Grandpa seem to have a lot in common?
There are better ways.
"Some states are trying to criminalize women and take away women’s reproductive rights, she said. Huerta has 11 children, but respects the decision of her daughters, who have chosen to just have one child or no children. Whether a woman decides to have or not have children is their business and no one else’s, she said."
~ Huerta & Mullins
Ah, the "alternate history"
"Google a map of the United States before 1848. Google it. And what do you find out? That 1/3 of the United States was Mexico,” Huerta said. “We hear a lot of talk about Russia, invading Ukraine and taking away their property. Well, that’s what happened to Mexico. In the Mexican-American War, the United States took fifty percent of Mexico.”
~ Huerta & Mullins
Such an odd experience it was, yes?
RIP, last year's experience with not a famous tenured dad who got trained to entertain others by making fun of beating wives and referenced "Si Se Puede" as a way to belittle naive and foolish thinking and also loved stand up comedy of course...
~~~~~
"Antonio Fajardo, student at WSU, said that he had heard about Delores Huerta throughout his life but had never thought he would be able to see a speech live from her in person and that he left the speech very inspired by new ideas to support farmworkers."
~ Erin Mullins
Sovereignty!?
“We were never into entitlement; thats why we didn’t have kings. We were into revering, honoring, relating to everything around us. All of these living spirits around us… That’s the system nobody is talking about that needs to be protected.”
~ C. Angel
"How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies"
2morrow...2morrow...
"'We’ve given our power over to an entity that doesn’t deserve our power,' she added, referencing the modern corporate industrial system. 'We must take back that empowerment of self. We must take back our own health care. We must take back our own food. We must take back our families. We must take back our environment. Because you see what’s happening. We gave the power to an entity, and the entity is destroying our world around us.'"
~ Allard & Barnett
"How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies"
Well, you're definitely not the only one.
I still wish more people in Hollywood weren't so "Trump and Melania" about how they choose to treat others.
Are you going to help them get to the food banks?
"Gen Z is approaching a ‘student loan cliff’ that could send shockwaves across the American economy"
https://fortune.com/2023/04/04/gen-z-approaching-student-loan-cliff-shock-economy/
Thank You, Catty Day Wisdom!
"Cat retracing steps in snow"
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/12f3dvm/cat_retracing_steps_in_snow/
Path of Necessary Wellness Ahead.
A good person has told me that he can see I have far more anxiety now than I did when I was younger.
And he added "Can you imagine going to Peru by yourself now?" No, and I don't want to. But I did do that, once upon a time...
I said, of course I have read that some people with certain genetics go through this kind of thing more than others, and there have been roadblocks, and the system has been VERY problematic...
But I can find the people and practices which can help me get back to real wellness.