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Dear Twisty
Greeting from Haiti. i love your blog .It was my Birthday this week i am a better person for having you and my blog list. Is it possible we could clone you so very young women and the world could have her own spinster Aunt. Your blog is amazing and gives me hope. I live in a country where there isn’t a lot of hope where the common good doesn’t exist. this is country where child slavery and hatred of women and people and general is allowed to fester. Yet everyday I look around and i see opportunity and reason to hope. But the task seems so insurmountable. Because as with all the planet Haiti is facing a climate catastrophe, And the human rights abuses are so many. Twity there has got to be a way to change things. sometimes the shit get so bad that i have developed a mild ulcer from all the rage inside of me I’m just turn 24 and i mad as hell. I can’t believe after thousand of year of human existence and we women have leave under the patriarchy and all for and if you are young women of color in the global south you have to live under the Kyriarchy of the world. There has to be a way for this to end once and for all.Do we have to declare war. What would the Amazons do? I need an outlet to let the rage out, cause my ulcer might kill me before the patriarchy does . Then again leaving this shit hole planet seems so much more enticing right now. Or twisty you could take me away to your planet.

And thank you, kate, Pulsar, Silence, and all. Cruelty toward animals is the foundation of the P. Man’s inhumanity to man is exceeded by his inhumanity toward women, children and animals. Purebred dogs are also more likely to get sick because of breeding practices.

Basic recipe –

1 pint household hydrogen peroxide
1 handful baking soda
1 good squirt liquid soap

(multiply by 2 or 3, depending on size of dog)

Mix all together in a large bowl. Bathe dog with mixture. Rinse. Then shampoo as usual, rinse again.

My brother found this for me; developed by a chemist with a skunked dog, and it really works. (I’ve had occasion to use it several times.)

WARNING — do NOT mix ahead of time and store; it will explode the container. Just keep the ingredients on hand.

Regarding Wodehouse’s female characters, I beg to differ with the popular consensus here. Yes, there is Aunt Agatha. But there is also Aunt Dahlia – loud and obnoxious, but with a heart of gold. And she has hobbies – hunting and stealing cow creamers from her guests. Though the latter may involve ruining one man’s fun, he definitely is not a sympathetic character in that story. There are several women who ruin Bertie Wooster’s fun, but that is because he is an idiot. There is Florence Craye, an intellectual powerhouse who made him read “a perfectly frightful thing by a bird called Tolstoy”. There is Bobbie Wickham whose practical jokes involve Bertie getting into trouble, but getting into trouble is in his job description. There is the clash with Stiffy Byng, but that is only because he is bungling her attempts to secure the vicarage for her betrothed, another bungler.

For every domineering Aunt Agatha or soupy Madeline Bassett, there is also a Jane, the chivalrous big game hunter, or Jill, a spunky farm owner and manager, or Dolly Molloy, the brains behind a sympathetically portrayed criminal operation, or Lotus Blossom, the actress with orange hair and a pet alligator, or the several women who beat men, even their boyfriends (horrors!) in golf and tennis.

I can’t think of any other male author from his time who had so many strong, independent, adventurous female characters.

Next, a thought for those of you who feel we ought to stop producing kids altogether. Considering the status of our current leadership, it seems prudent to try and create some outstanding future leaders or we’re all going to be wiped off the face of the earth. That will take the participation of all sentient people who encounter children (with or without ovaries, money and influence), if kids are to learn we are a species of individuals deserving of continuity. When these ‘new people’ address issues of existence instead of gender and cultural membership, we may have a shot at survival. We may even want to survive. It shouldn’t be this hard.

Bestest wishes to Twisty. I hope they have jumbo margaritas on Obstreperon.