Links for the weekend:
Sex doesn’t need to be sensationalized. (Rachel Kramer Bussel, aka Lusty Lady, Huffington Post):
Sex is a topic that people are always interested in, and always will be, yet instead of addressing it in a straightforward way, all too many media outlets choose to try to make sex “sexier” rather than giving readers enough credit to think logically and critically about the topic.
Victims, aren’t we all. Old, but good from Renegade Evolution:
But while some bemoan the thought that women are taught to be objects, I fear the thought that we are taught to be victims.
Who’s your mommy. (Echidne of the Snakes):
Our ideas of powerful women tend to be based on mythology (Echidne, ahem) or on the very few women who stick out in the history after most women have been carefully nailed down into its background. So we are told about Joan of Arc (who got burned to a crisp for her daring) or about the female saints (who got their breasts cut out for their daring) or about the great queens such as Elizabeth I (never got laid) or Catherine the Great (got laid by horses). Or we are expected to find the female role models for power among the sex goddesses of the silver screen era, even though their power was derived from male approval and looks.
This must be love.. Beautiful and heart wrenching from Uncensored Arab woman blues:
I just read this and having experienced it “All Iraqis will go to heaven, because we’ve all been to Hell.” - I know there is never a good time to give up.
I am not a politician, am not a poet, nor am I a writer…Am just a survivor.
And like every survivor, we seek little things…
Sentences here and there. Maybe a poetry line, a piece of music, a work of art, the eyes of a stranger that bring on a sense of familiarity, a memory, a song, an embrace or a heartbeat…
A heartbeat and the heart breaks open and says “finally”
And the heart breaks open and sighs…or sheds a few silent tears.
Have a good weekend.
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