Kuukausi: maaliskuu 2015

There is a living tradition of honour killing. Finland is no exception.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

We all know deep inside there is no honour in killing. It makes one wonder as there is much violence and killing in the world someone must find killing an honorary deed, to defend one’s honour one can do terrible things. Death penalty is one way of keeping honour killing culture alive. Life for life, face for face. As woman for many is less than a man it may be easier to kill that woman so that the man can live in honour, in the kind of honour he finds honourable. Some think there is honour in silence. By silencing the shameful one is one way of killing, to turn one’s back for the one who is not wanted, who is trouble, who brings out the trouble and those who do not want trouble are allowed to do whatever they want by the permission of the rest of the good people.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/analysis/2015/03/19/Sweden-s-feminist-foreign-policy-sparks-off-quarrels-.html
”During a visit to Washington in January, the 60-year-old Wallstrom told the United States Institute of Peace (USIP): “We are going to pursue a feminist foreign policy.” But since she took the role of Stockholm’s top diplomat, Wallstrom’s “feminist foreign policy” appears to be causing many problems for the Nordic Kingdom.”

 

cultured.

Human rights situation in China: What could be done?

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ref47cSyQWEQh154WKb8z__l05f2Uq0R-TIUYQTI-yk/viewform?c=0&w=1”Twenty years ago, China hosted the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, signed for Beijing Platform for Action, and made a commitment to promote women’s rights and gender equality. What the Chinese government has done to the five young feminists is unacceptable and violating the spirit of the Beijing Platform for Action and CEDAW. ”


How long are we going to witness oppression? Obviously we are accustomed to consuming tons of cheap goods that are so essential to our lifestyle we take them for granted. Chinese problems are probably far away for the most of us and kept from our sight. It is a matter of propaganda and what we want to see. What are we looking at? Mostly away, as it seems. We want to see smiling people who are happy. We want everybody to have fun..



Time to dissent!

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It is dangerous to be a dissident, but there is no other way when things continue to remain horribly bad. It can be seen a case of impossible as one is facing a hostile giant who believes in violent solving of things, believes that what this programmed monster does is righteous and justified. It is even more difficult to rise up against opposing the violent physically stronger when one is a woman, but it has to be done when nobody does it for you. Fear is no laughing matter, but one can use humor and satire to make the problem visible and easier to approach, more close to earth and less difficult to restrain. Grass root is where feminism does its ground braking work and has done so for over a century. We are lost if we do not act when it is necessary, when it is absolutely compulsory for us to more than just survive.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/19/china-gender-sex-issues-dissident/ ”The young women frequently rallied against domestic violence, which is rampant in China. In one survey conducted by Beijing Forestry University and the Anti-Domestic Violence Network, a China-based gender-equality NGO, half of Chinese men admitted to violence against their partners.”

What is easy anyway?

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Working day is everyday

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What does it mean when a girl is being difficult?

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It means quite a lot. It is the very social change embodied right there. Same goes with youth in general. There has to be a continuum of youth rebellion every time all the time.
What about when she is testing her limits, testing limits there are, testing nerves, ideas, conventions and habits, habits of thought? Limits that are there for obvious reasons, for sensible reasons, religious and traditional reasons, maybe reasons that are not valid anymore. Talk about matters of defining difficult behavior, difficult personality and what are the expectations for girls and women when we talk about personality and what girls can do. Where is the difficulty? To me it seems there is nothing but hardship and struggle what comes to gender gaps and fulfilling expectations. Easily females are as we know taught to fulfill expectations (we are brought up more or less to act up, behave, learn to live up to our civilization’s demands) as are boys, but in a different way and there are people who do not tolerate any kind of rebellion, anger, mind of one’s own for a girl to have. If life is a list of demands to be lived up, list that one has not made oneself, list that is not your own but is given to you without thinking there might be a different kind of dreams and lives to want. Difficult many times begins when expectations and manners are broken, when girl shows she has a mind of her own, life of her own to have and make. What is the difficulty in there, I’m not sure, I’m not getting it fully, but I put it on people who dislike and fear the unexpected, fear change, growing up, who are actually afraid of their children, afraid that children are not the same as parents. What is difficult? To understand your children are not yours? What is a difficult child too difficult to handle and why do we need to handle a child? To be afraid what children will become, that they will bring shame to the family is a common fear anywhere in the world. Why would you be ashamed of your child? Therefore discipline and scare are used to keep children from having strange ideas like becoming what they want themselves to be. A difficult child is something who is giving parents a hard time. We can ask who would not be a difficult child and why rebelling against parents is so terrifying that many won’t dare to follow their dreams or be open about what they are as people. Afraid that love and acceptance is taken away.
Question is why girls and boys are set different boundaries, given different goals, ideas of life? What is with bringing up kids? It is clear genders do get brought up in a different way, how could this cage where we are put in be opened up and people wouldn’t be afraid to test themselves and society more. What are we protecting when we focus on girls to be careful and obedient more than boys? How to be more tolerant of and open about the difficult in us?

Bodies online

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Get well soon.

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To find something truthful we must believe the evidence there is, blood of evidence. That there is blood as evidence demonstrating as an accomplishment and fact to be seen and felt. Proven Nauseating goo. Not to stand sight of it, not even a drop because it is full of meaning.
Alive to witness decline of the obvious there is a parade, parade after parade in which to shine and with. We didn’t bleed, we don’t bleed, we cannot bleed, bleeding is awkward, it is lame, bleeding is weakness right there.
I cheer it when it happens, WHEN there is a moment of insight into what we are. The low of assumption, low of circulating conclusions, when fact based truth is too much to take,  I cheer when something else gets out than what was expected. When it is let out. Something else than a parade of much, too much with too little.
I don’t know what Hoccuspoccus we need making one’s truth right in the eyes and ears of those who play witness, bear witness, testify,  who play good because they have to, because they know what is good, who can play perfect without being bloody perfect. It takes imperfection. That there is perfect there must be truth. Lie can never be perfect. To never forget is very telling, that there is no end to seeking.
The evidence there is: what can be seen as evidence? How close can we see, how close can we get, want to look at, understand to go? It takes time, curiosity, sensitivity and senses. The things you see, what you see, what you witness, how do you come forward with the things you have found. what to make of them? It is tricky. Don’t get tangled with the obvious, but the mess of truth, how to be truthful. Look at your hands and look at your face, look next to them and behind.

I had a thought about crying. It is a form of uncomfortable, form of cried on issues on tissues on pile of unused ones, in their wrapping, folded new and white. Crying as a sign of weakness, female sensitivity. But I must not cry. It will bring shadow on me, an awkward situation and around me nothingness where I cannot see myself. I can take it, keep it inside me. They cannot, take it for them, tolerate it.  Cried on tissues, blown on, wet on taken tissue and I do not have a permission to talk about it because crying is a sign.

 

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