I’m exiting my daze and now I feel like one big raw exposed nerve. As I’m gathering my raging self, I feel no other option than to be louder, bigger, less agreeable, more formidable. What a perfect metaphor to keep in my pocket! Thank you, Elizabeth.
I'm not sure Medusa's snake-like hair is particularly phallic, but there's no doubt that many men are incredibly threatened by a strong, purposeful woman, and I think the story of Medusa undoubtedly contains elements of that misogyny. I occasionally read a right-wing news web site, just for kicks and to induce heartburn, and they are forever posting pictures of certain women looking angry: Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, AOC. It's obvious that those women scare the shit out of them.
I understand your sense of being dazed after this ruling. I have no idea what to do except keep pouring money into Planned Parenthood and the ACLU and hope they can get this clusterfuck reversed when we eventually reach a more stable time. We've got to drive these extremists back to the fringes where they belong.
Have you read Rebecca Traister's book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger? Do, if you haven't. And I heard her interviewed the other day, because...obviously, we're fucking angry.
"We need our gaze to turn these men and women who uphold it to stone." You read my heart.
Mine too! I stayed staring at that line.
I’m exiting my daze and now I feel like one big raw exposed nerve. As I’m gathering my raging self, I feel no other option than to be louder, bigger, less agreeable, more formidable. What a perfect metaphor to keep in my pocket! Thank you, Elizabeth.
You also read my heart! Courage and strength to us all.
I am not sure I will ever recover from these latest blows. I feel as if my spirit has been finally been beat down past the point of recovery.
I'm not sure Medusa's snake-like hair is particularly phallic, but there's no doubt that many men are incredibly threatened by a strong, purposeful woman, and I think the story of Medusa undoubtedly contains elements of that misogyny. I occasionally read a right-wing news web site, just for kicks and to induce heartburn, and they are forever posting pictures of certain women looking angry: Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, AOC. It's obvious that those women scare the shit out of them.
I understand your sense of being dazed after this ruling. I have no idea what to do except keep pouring money into Planned Parenthood and the ACLU and hope they can get this clusterfuck reversed when we eventually reach a more stable time. We've got to drive these extremists back to the fringes where they belong.
Have you read Rebecca Traister's book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger? Do, if you haven't. And I heard her interviewed the other day, because...obviously, we're fucking angry.