feminism
Among many things that are fucked up homelessness is the one that is on the list of immediate to deal with and abolish.
It has been something that I feel very strongly about. Everybody has a right to have a home. It is a human right and therefore an acute issue for governments to take action over since it is a serious human right violation and a kind of bottom from where it is difficult to get up on one’s own. It is a duty of nations to provide affordable housing for their citizens. It is the least you can and must do. To comprehend why this is not happening is extremely difficult, but I try. Why do we have nations? What are nations for other than making profit for the rich, for corporation, to provide cheap labor, infrastructure and tax money to exploit? Since it is Christmas time and according to latest statistics in Great Britain alone there are thousands of homeless people, we are obligated to act upon it, to help. Those who are the lucky ones and have roofs over their heads, who have means to do something, what can you do? http://www.homeless.org.uk/facts/homelessness-in-numbers
What would be the most helpful thing is to radically lower prices of rents, to regulate how much is the limit above which prices do not go. Housing is an area of business in which people ruthlessly exploit lives and livelihoods. When paycheck is not enough to pay the rent government is not doing its job. Extortion and rip off that is what is going on and is outrageous, wrong and unjust. “Nobody should be in the streets; that is the problem with this whole thing,” said Sandy Perry, a minister and outreach worker with the Affordable Housing Network who has been at the Jungle daily trying to help. While he agrees that the Jungle, with its piles of garbage, buckets of human waste and now rising creek waters, “is not a nice place to live,” Mr. Perry said the city ought to have a better plan for homeless people in general.
More than a few of the encampment residents said they were victims of rent increases. Yvonne Vabiseo grew up in San Jose and had a job and an apartment until recently. “I worked at Dollar Tree,” she said. “I had a car and my own place.” She lost her job just as her rent was raised, prodding her into homelessness.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/us/driven-from-silicon-valleys-jungle-homeless-face-limited-options.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1
What do I know of soul and what do I need to know of soul.
I make a claim: It is somehow a self-evident reality that there is a soul in every living and thinking thing, so there is a conscious mind in a body, it is consciousness and unconsciousness and ability to evolve and learn. But what is the thought and the idea of a being? To live without reason bound to one’s form without power to change one’s situation? If every living thing has the soul thinking and rational making are not necessary. Does soul make importance and worth as such? I ask because life as such does not make value, not even human life in the world today. Inequality prevails. We do not know whether soul lives on after death, but we like the idea for it to wonder and find another body to live in or with for soul to inhabit a place after the body is gone. Strange maybe the idea of soul doing something consciously. Soul to have a meaning as a soul. Is it spirit or soul or just life suddenly born in whatever form and obeying life’s circle and laws? Circle of visible bodies with spirits, wandering souls with us. For somebody to have soul means depth in person, insight in life and will to explore. A certain openness towards life, its mess and mystery. Clarity and fearlessness to face life, to make harmony out of disharmony, ability to express personality and originality. Soul is personal view, intellect and experience shared. Soul is mystery which is its beauty. We do not know. Something we wish to find out but do not completely never will. I like the idea that soul is simply to have a life therefore every living thing has the soul.
”Given the idea that soul is the distinguishing mark of all living things, including plants, the Greek notion of soul is, as we have seen already, broader than our concept of mind. For it is at least conceivable, and probably true as a matter of fact, that there are living (hence ensouled) organisms without minds, without, that is to say, desire and cognition by sense or intellect. (Plato appears to think that plants do have minds in this sense, because he takes them to exhibit desire and sense-perception (Timaeus 77b), but that is presumably supposed to be a matter of empirical fact or inference, rather than simply a consequence of the fact that plants have souls.)” Do not whip a puppy as it is a soul of a friend.
Distance of things as artificial difference in things and for people, natural as a happening. Distance between to tell who we are, for us to know what we deal with and what we do not.
Distance to those unworthy, to the garbage, to those who are to be forgotten and unspoken of. Distance to foul, to smelly, to politics, to difficulty, to hunger, to trouble, to suffering, to death, to murder: distance can be silent killing, denial and horror in front of life and cruelty of man. To make a gap between clean and dirty in order not to be infected, exposed nor influenced by: not to change. Distance is to dream the far away land, to dream something to find out of reach, something unexpected and new. It is not understanding, something that is incomprehensible and for some reason out of grasp. Distance is to hold a secret, to feel veiled, to feel hidden, to avoid speaking the achy issues, to be in silence. Distance is to be silent when one should speak, to not speak for those who would listen, to not see those who wish to be seen and not to face what becomes of seeing. Distance can be fear of change, fear of acting out, fear of putting oneself into it, into solving the problem of distance. Distance is inability.
Distance meaning the state of not wanting to face oneself, somebody among somebodies, not to face things done, but escape, escape situations of shame in shame, distance kept from feeling appallingly ashamed. Distance is to make a difference between us and them, between people and people, between not understanding. Distance is isolating, it can be too much to live in isolation, but it can be living in periphery without a need to leave. Isolated from what, far from what, marginal to what? Distance now is an effort to make it unimportant, making it important still as a making.
Oh you are so far away, there, somewhere, come here. How distant are we? Do we know each other? What is the distance between us? The actual length? What kind of journey does one have to travel to get here, to get there?
Distance is guilt. Distance is how you look at things. It is to forget and it is a physical fact. How well do we admit that we are unable to take over distance. How much are we unwilling to acknowledge our incapability to rule completely distance, conquer length and void of an area as material and immaterial. To acknowledge distance is to make immaterial visible.
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Women under attack
Women are under attack mentally and physically no matter which culture we live in. Female body and controlling it seems to be one stepping stone of those so-called developed countries and developing countries. Abortion, marriage, virginity as a prize for men, wearing clothes to hide her persona and sex in order not to disturb, in order not to be anything but domestic help and a subject of men, women under strict legislation and under contempt as unholy and ripped out of human dignity. Due to our religions and the heritage they bring women are under attack: mutilated, raped, diminished, killed and put down in a manner that is appalling and criminal. In Islam women are under supervision as children or worse as animals without say over their lives. Because of their sex and assumed notorious nature as men seducing beings, women who are a menace to whole of society for their sex and sexuality are outcasts, outlaws and whores by nature, vicious with demonic qualities.
As I look at womanhood of mine and place it as it is, it has been nothing but a threat to others. Something for somebody else to want and use. Under looking-glass, under severe observation and talk, under sheer contempt and ill where women as persons and people are put without second thought. It is alarming since I have thought we live in a civilized country. Country that considers it civilized, but there is a big BUT. As civilized as we are we rely much on religion. As secular as Finland seems to be in its modernity we like our Christian values. As does Europe. Christianity on one hand is not modern. It is ancient as is Islam. Unchanging and relying on that. Whether we wish to be ancient or modern seems to vary on the matter at hand. We like our technology and our progress faith wipes out for example historical architecture if there is profit in sight. What comes to marriage as an institution and deciding over fetuses life there are puzzling traditionalist voices that are loud and listened to whether they are valid or not. Violence of religious fundamentalists is in their voices and in their deeds. Is violence God’s work? I seriously doubt that.
Threat of sexuality is that it affects our morals, our behavior and how our children become to see what society is and can be. We are very sexual beings, we express our sexuality with everything we do whether we deny sexuality or let it show as it is. Everything is expression. Sexuality cannot be escaped therefore it is dangerous. Do people who deny variety of sexual behavior have high morals?
Woman in a bar alone has set connotations, she has intentions. She is there for a reason. What is she wearing, how is she sitting, how much is she drinking, what is she doing. How to look at her, can she be approach, what to say to her. Threat of womanhood, woman who is pathetic if he is alone. Woman cannot be alone, she is attacked, her intentions are there on her stamped. Her loneliness is her burden and fault. There is something wrong with her.
Paper on class, sex and corporate power:
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol2/iss3/4/
We have an idea what equality is.
But we are not equal. There is not enough will to make the world’s population equal. There are people, mostly men, who say feminists do not seek equality. What an odd idea for a feminist. What an absurd thing to say in the light of history of feminism. Surely there are all kinds of feminists, but feminism as an ideology is to better lives of women and children. It is to the core about finding the closest kind of state of equal rights and finding life worth living without oppression. It is about what is right and just, about making human rights in general happen for all humans, for men and women, gay and straight, black and white, disabled and those without disabilities. Feminism is to bring the very differences there may be among us on the same line, everybody to have the same opportunities in life regardless of our differences. Could it be more clear. If there is a feminist who likes to put interests of her own in front and put somebody down because she is a feminist and a woman, I am sorry. To me that is not the message of feminism.
Justification to abuse because of what one is.
The self-evidence of power of gender, sex, appearance, origin, occupation, abilities, knowledge etc. whatever the reason is that we without hesitation use to benefit ourselves and over and over think is our right to use against someone else, assets and qualities as tools of oppression and hierarchy. To gain and show power being the reasons to act. How sex is the obvious strong or weak, because we learn to think so. Women are like that and do things like that, think in a certain way. Obviously we are not very open in our thinking what a human can be. We get stuck with our genitals, which are huge obstacles in doing whatever. To the question of how much we actually use of our brains, we like to follow familiar and traditional paths instead of finding new ones just like that.
Body of contempt
Patterns and ideas of how feminine is let to reveal and live itself can be and are hugely regulated and calculated, and seen as the self-evident part of modern society. Body is weak and needs to be fed. Women are weak therefore they must be taught to obtain strength via obedience and observing their behavior closely. Strength via the feminine role of fragile, acceptance of one’s fragility and humble place of evil weak sex as written and eternal truth. We are compelled to control bodies with looks, with upbringing, with clothes, with comparison, with contempt and degrading. Patterns of making it to be successful within rules of the game in which we are meat and food for those who are hungry is a weird masochistic necessity. Feminine is as is the act of sex and idea of gender manipulated as too dangerous to be anything else than the few good things they are for. Made for, designed for. Too wild for them to be as they might become to be, dangerous for such obscene to be let loose, too dangerous to acknowledge aloud.
Damaging sexuality, sexuality as damaged is as a rotten idea. A rotten view into humanity and the angles in use now are prohibiting us to be as we are. For sexuality to be manifested as the most important part of humanity is precarious and laughable, shameful and hideous. Knowing the danger is acknowledging the importance. Exploitation of body, especially young attractive body is seen as a right as we do it via images. How do we know exploitation from everyday usage. Can they be separated. Isn’t accepted exploitation everyday practice. There are degrees of severe and we are beyond severe to understand where the limits go. There are degrees of right and wrong, which we must know and act upon. To give body to be exploited is seen as a heroic act, and that there will always be a new body to replace that worn out one is to show and use the constant hunger and demand. Delivery and supply exist because hunger exists. As a circle of inevitable, that there is nothing we can do about it, because there is a continuous desire, misery and lust for body, which cannot be helped. An eye that wants to watch.
The women who defend men.
Surely they’ll get glorified after having sensed the need to be on side of men against feminists who are nothing but bald and angry nuisance. Bald and ugly, ugly and bald lesbians. I must thank those women who fiercely stand for equality against the threat of feminism. Just as the threat of communism that there once was feminism is at the root of whining, negative femininity that places blame on men unjustly. Men are to be defended as they are defenseless and vulnerable, at the mercy of female judgment, abandonment and cruelty. Men who need support, gentleness and kindness of women, sheer soft obedient femininity, a wife and a mother.
I personally want to thank women in Hollywood and in any American entertainment business for making equality happen. You truly are doing it fuckers.
”Hayek is, to put it politely, confused. Someone should explain to her that feminism is all about wanting equality. That, arguably, to divorce feminism from equality is like shaking an egg and trying to separate the yolk from the white afterwards.”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/09/why-women-wont-say-they-are-feminists?CMP=twt_gu
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