With my girlfriend the other night we were just talking about the raw deal modern women have.Pre-feminism, a woman would have to bear and raise the children, take care of the house.Post-feminism, what has changed?A woman has to bear and raise the children, take care of the house and”Snatched from the Jaws of Victory: Feminism Then and Now” by Paula Rothenberg Once upon a time the personal really was political…. How convenient for capitalist patriarchy that young women today think that dressing like every man’s sex fantasy is a sign of their liberation and that the women’s movement was all about getting the right to choose and had nothing to do with making hard decisions about what values and what social vision should be reflected in our choices.I remember well the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
3 CommentsCategory: Politics
Not that I want to get into the politics, but GR’s point is idiotic – there are SO many reasons you wouldn’t want the students to be carrying guns.
2 Comments
It doesn’t hurt that Hungarian cuisine is the best food Caboodle.hu – Study shows Hungarian gender equality worst in region: According to an annual study published by the Central Statistics Office (KSH) and the ministry of social affairs and labor entitled “Women and Men in Hungary” (“Nők és férfiak Magyarországon”), while 54% of people participating in higher education are women, only 8% of university teachers are female…. In addition, although women are better educated and speak more languages than their male counterparts, they find it more difficult to climb the career ladder, and only 35% of managers are women.
16 CommentsRock Ballet – Political Ballet: <br />New Direction in Dance from Joni MItchell and William Forsythe
It turns out that Joni Mitchell is back at work on an amazing antiwar production, of all things a ballet.She is still highly motivated by politics:“Humbly I hope we can make a difference with this ballet,” she told him, speaking of her outrage about the foreign and environmental policies of the United States…. We’re wasting our time on this fairy tale war, when the real war is with God’s creation.
Leave a CommentIm sure this program will be an attempt by the BBC to confuse and muddy the waters like all good counter intelligence intends and to label those that question the offical conspiracy theory(which it is) as paranoid conspiracy nutters who dare to break loose from the herd and question our media guided reality?… To believe in the “Conspiracy Theory” all you have to believe is that George Bush and a few Cronies with the help of a former CIA asset who just happens to belong to a family that was VERY close to the President, and perhaps less than 1,000 millitary or intellegence people executed an enhanced version of Operation Northwoods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods).
1 CommentTo end up face down in a city part somewhere in France or Canada, my spine broken by a police boot but my soul intact, the light extinguishing altogether. Some would argue that there are successful directors who live from their art. To be honsest, for most well off directors make their money and spend their energy on television commercials, banal television or empty commercial film.
Leave a CommentWorldNews: Global military spending this year is estimated to reach US$1,059bn, outstripping the highest figure reached during the Cold War in real terms, and roughly fifteen times current international aid expenditure. This growth in military budgets has caused a boom for the arms industry, with the top 100 arms companies seeing their sales increase by almost 60 per cent, from US$157bn in 2000 to US$268bn in 2004.
Leave a CommentScotsman.com News – International – Soldiers ‘laughed’ as they beat detainees, court martial told: Mr Matairi, whose brother was killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime, said he felt betrayed at being ill-treated by British soldiers he had welcomed to Iraq.”I put flowers in my children’s hands to welcome the British soldiers when they came to free us from Saddam,” Mr Matairi told the court with the aid of an interpreter.”I could not believe that these criminals were from Britain…. “We were hit all the time, continuously without knowing the reason why,” he added.Mr Matairi, part-owner of the hotel from which he and his staff were arrested, told them “we are going to die”.”They [the soldiers] were celebrating the beatings like it was Christmas,” he said.He said the soldiers laughed at his cries of pain, playing a karate chop game as they hit him.
Leave a Comment