The past two years are gone, and I am not!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

What can one say?  Hello.  I was downed by a number of illnesses - related and unrelated - and I forgot how to write.  So I may ramble a bit at first.  I'm being patient with me.

First, allow me to celebrate the strong, sane, and sensitive men in the world.  The lovers.  The laughers.  The givers.  You are a blessing to the planet.  This column does not apply to you.  Remember to breathe.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, I was conscious of myself making an angry fist.  Because it so seldom happens, it's noticeable.  And I said to my dogs (because, of course, I never just talk to myself), "I am an angry woman."

I had just read the fourth installment of Gary Trudeau's castigation of legislation against women in the state of Texas.  A newly pregnant woman who wants to terminate the pregnancy is being physically invaded by a doctor with a transvaginal sonogram wand, at the same time that he admits that he has been legally empowered to rape her with it.  At this point, one feels compelled to ask, "What is the state of Texas?" and to answer, "Complete and utter white male insanity."

Women are being brutalized for having sex urges and comfortable compartments into which to insert the male penis.  Men are not being brutalized for placing their penises in said compartments and jiggling them till they feel good.  Oh, and let's round out this Catch 22:  the same deviates who have voted to have their way with women's rights from the congressional chambers also want to deny women the right to obtain birth control so that such things as pregnancy will not occur during sex.  Oh, but that's because they have religious objections?  These yobs make the Taliban look inoffensively liberal!  They are doing the raping, with their clothes on, and looks of righteous bliss on their crazy faces.

Unless you are fortunate enough to be gay, it is my understanding that it takes one of each gender to make sexual congress.  Where do men plan to go for sex?  More and more women are soon going to be in an ugly mood about obliging them.  Anger is replacing desire.  Ladies unaccustomed to making a fist in anger are surprising themselves daily.  Lysistrata is more than just an old, old story.

I remember a film of about 25 years ago, I think a Dutch film.  Name? Forgotten. Point?  A bunch of women in a shop killed a male shopkeeper who had verbally abused another woman.  None of the people had known each other when they entered the scene, but they all went to the same place when the incident occurred.  Further, they never spoke of what happened, though they went to prison for it.  I say let's get a group together and go visit Austin for some shopping!

Men appear to be so screwed up about sex that they whirl like dervishes around it.  They create the demand for the woman's body to be just so - sometimes dangerously anorexic if they want to work in film;  or for women to display their bodies ala Victoria's Secret models, and to sit astride Rigid Tool products; and at the same time, they scream, "Sex is dirty.  Save it for the one you love."  Tell me again, Newt, what is the definition of marriage?

We know that most, if not all, of the Republican candidates for President have behaved hypocritically, male and female.  But if this High Horse they're riding is a mare, watch out!