Just because some of us are born into a coloniser’s position doesn’t mean we don’t know how we got there. Or, for that matter, how the State got there. And before that, the land.

I think a few burning beds might be a salutary thing, given how very, very many women are being burned at present. Or at least the THOUGHT of it should give the burners-of-women pause.

As for the rest, the oppressors themselves play the hunter and the hunted, and everyone else is only quarry.

Actually, since I once saw a woman blow herself up to kill men, and once to kill another woman, and watched the soldier-girls march off to war, I think we could all do with a little questioning of our power-structures :-). Jihadi patriarchy makes “damaged” women who can no longer compete in traditional societies’ feminine role (one had a pregnancy she couldn’t explain, one was too burned in an accident to be a pretty bride, etc.) into suicide bombers.

There’s bedfellows, and well, then there’s bedfellows.

They’re males, you’re male. The primordial layer of bedfellows.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307WA.shtml

Words fail me.

Sick f!cks. All Al-Q in Iraq ever cared about was killing Yazidis, Assyrians, Armenians, all the non-Islamic religious minorities, to restore them to their natural status–”dhimma”–3rd and 4th class non-citizens under the guiding green light of fundamentalist Islam.

Irony and justice indeed. Watch out for strange bedfellows.

I read about the horrendous truck bombing in Iraq in August via my usual progressive sources. They listed over 500 killed. I had the usual reflexive moment of shame that I am a citizen of the country that brought this violence on a sovereign nation, one that had not attacked my country nor otherwise provoked it. But buried in a small paragraph, unimportant to the liberal male bloggers, was the fact that the victims were Yazidi.

I had a former acquaintance who was an NRA supporter burst into metaphorical flames when I causally remarked about handgun freedom “Yeah, but it’s mostly men killing each other, why should I care?”. He thought I should both grant men the freedom to kill each other but also care that they did.

It seems the liberal (male) press has the same misconception.

So Big Bill is pointing out that WE are casting stones by calling out, discussing, voicing dismay over injustice????

I just could NOT let that fly without saying this:

WHO GIVES A SHIT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS??? IT WAS WRITTEN BY MEN.

Some nice poetry in there…maybe even a female author in drag here and there, and yes, great stories…

but jesus christ,(pun intended) it’s all gone to pot, the bible’s message, and that of all the other major scriptures…

and this entire post, and perhaps without wanting to EVERY COMMENT, is testimony to the FAILURE of religion to be as it intends: a way for humans to live better lives while here on earth.

and as a flaming lipstick dyke, let me just add that I would LOVE for that gay boy to actually take responsibility for the absurd mysoginist BS he spewed, but guess what, ladies? Our world NEVER requires men to grow the F&**k up, n’est pas?

Thank you thank you thank you Blame the Patriarchy for letting me spew a tad. Now maybe I can go to sleep.