A Flower Is Not A Flower by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Here is a cover I made of an Elite Gymnastics song because I am not only very appreciative of EG but also of Andrea Dworkin’s views on pornography which are emphasized in her speech, “The Lie”.

“When Andrea Dworkin died, both the press and her moderate feminist critics responded with a mélange of barely concealed glee and smug relief. Christopher Hitchens was one of the few to speak out in her defense, lamenting that the world had become a lonelier place without an Andrea Dworkin to dispute with. ‘[S]he could write, and think, and argue,’ he wrote, ‘and it was often a pleasure to disagree violently with her, which is more than I can say for some of her detractors.’ I suspect this is how many feel at Hitchens’s own passing. It’s certainly how I feel.”

http://nomadsun.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/farewell-hitchens

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i’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is
people who benefit from the way it is and [do] not want to change it anytime soon, and aren’t sorry at all  (via floozys)

I also wanted to add to this: “it is what it is” is the most meaningless, condescending and effortless thing anyone could possibly say.
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“We have been asked, by many people in the societies in which we live, to accept that we women are making progress. You see, because you see our presence in these places that we weren’t before. And those of us who are berated for being radical have said: that is not the way we measure progress. You see, we count the dead bodies. We count the numbers of rapes. We count the women who are being battered. We keep track of the children who are being raped by their fathers. And when *those* numbers start to change in a way that is meaningful, we will then talk to you about whether or not we can measure progress.”

Andrea Dworkin, Montréal, 1991 (via deadgirlfriends)

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A brilliant evocation of a pre-First World War Britain when the old system, which was basically a liberal one, came under tremendous shocks from the movement for women’s suffrage, the movement to disengage from Ireland and the rise of organized labor. In the chapter on the rise of women’s suffrage he describes beautifully all the morbid symptoms that appear when the long-repressed—especially sexually repressed—group begin to take their own measure.

The suffragette movement simply for women’s franchise, for the right of women to vote, was attacked by all kinds of people for its weirdness. For the way the women started to dress as men, to neglect their families and to behave promiscuously. Many of these symptoms, up to and including suicide on some occasions, were indeed present but when the air cleared one could see that it was the result of the original repression. It was a phase through which the movement had to pass.



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A wonderful socialist feminist book which calls for women’s negotiation with men after having achieved more terms for equality.

“Let’s make a deal with the men. Half our children are going to be boys, we can’t get along without them. Men and women get married,” she wittily points out, “in exactly the same numbers. Let’s do it, but let’s do it now, because now we’re going to be taken more seriously.”

jonnovstheinternet:

Life within death.
Physalis alkekengi, or the Chinese/Japanese Lantern, blooms during Winter and dries during Spring. Once it is dried, the bright red fruit is seen. The outer cover is a thin mesh that held the flower petals, seen in golden brown colour.

jonnovstheinternet:

Life within death.

Physalis alkekengi, or the Chinese/Japanese Lantern, blooms during Winter and dries during Spring. Once it is dried, the bright red fruit is seen. The outer cover is a thin mesh that held the flower petals, seen in golden brown colour.