En garde

Ladies, we need to learn how to properly defend ourselves and not just physically. The patriarchs are out of control. Women must become better aware of how these wannabe machos are trying to obliterate female autonomy.

Are these men really that insecure  that they feel elevated by mistreating women? Do they really believe that a higher level of testosterone will make them a better person?

What’s  incredible is that the manosphere complains that they’ve been deprived of their rights because of feminism. Well, what do they think initiated the feminist movement?

Feminism doesn’t exist because women hate men but because women are against what the patriarchal society has done to keep them from sharing the same rights as a man. So, what are the rights men claim they’ve be deprived of because of women? The right to rape?

It is the role of privilege that men have in a patriarchal society that gives them the idea they have the right to impose themselves not only on women, but on children as well.

Children need to be protected. Pedophilia is a mental health problem that ruins lives. As there’s apparently an epidemic of pedophilic disorders, to protect our children we must affront the problem seriously. More emphasis needs to be placed on understanding the cause of this disorder and how to treat it. Statics show that abused children often grow up to become abusers themselves.

So, hey, Wannabe Studmuffins, remember that the more you whine, the more you prove just what spineless little wimps you really are.

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Related:

Empathy and Ecofeminism + Protect your Womanhood +

Abused Becomes Abuser Statistics +

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Perchable

Arabella was not a pleasant child. She enjoyed saying rude and vicious things to the family’s pet bird, Jack. But Jack was not a pacifist. He believed in fighting back. So, with the help of some cats, Jack got out of his cage. He waited behind the curtains until he saw Arabella outside then flew straight onto her head where he started chirping to his friends that he had a new roost. Soon his friends chirped back that they were on the way.

Things for Arabella were about to change.

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Intimidation

Many men find strong women intimidating. Why? Because men living in a patriarchal society have grown up as the privileged gender. If men feel intimidated by women, it’s simply because they’re insecure about their own masculinity. That’s why men don’t want their attempts to dominate to be questioned. Unable to deal with the confrontation, they often become violent. How many women have been murdered by a man who once told them “I love you”?

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was an activist and community organizer. She fought for women’s rights as well as for the rights of Blacks to vote. Born in Mississippi, Fannie gave flavor to her political speeches with quotes from the Bible just to let everyone know that God was on her side.

Fannie did her best to help Black American citizens register to vote. For this, she was harassed and her life threatened. And, after she herself attempted to vote, Fannie was fired from her job and shot at by racists. But she survived.

In 1963, Fannie was with a group of Blacks returning to Mississippi after participating in a South Carolina voter registration workshop. They stopped at a café but were refused service. The police came and arrested the rejected customers. Once in jail, they were beaten with clubs. Fannie was also groped and her dress pulled up to expose her body. Men in the room sneered and rejoiced in trying to humiliate her.

Fannie never fully recovered from the beating but she still insisted on organizing even more voter registration drives. She would not let herself be intimidated. But the stress finally caught up with her. In 1977, Fannie died of hypertension and breast cancer. She was only 59 years old.

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”  Fannie Lou Hamer

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Related:

Eudora Welty (1909-2001) (re: Medgar Evers) +

Voting Rights Act of 1965 +

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The Swamp Within

Lately I’ve been feeling puffy and stiff. Someone told me it was because, inside of me, I was carrying around my own little swamp. All those stagnant fluids were slowing me down and needed to be drained.

One solution is a lymphatic massage that gently manipulates specific areas to eliminate excess fluid build up thus eliminating related inflammation as well. But, for a massage, you need a masseur and money to pay him. Otherwise, it’s all about your own physical movement.

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The best movements for drainage include arm swings and overhead reaches as the motion can help drain armpit lymph nodes.

Motion is medicine but deep breathing and hydration are also important. Pole dancing also helps. Or so I’ve been told.

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Related: Sufi Spin + Dancing in Finland +

And thank you Laura for this link! How To Perform a Lymphatic Drainage Self-Massage

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Going Green

The TV set was on when she appeared. Her face was stiff, mechanical, artificial. Her attitude was arrogant and unlikeable. So much so that someone in the crowd yelled at her to go back to where she came from. That’s when she exploded. She yelled so much that her skin kept stretching to make room for her ever-enlarging mouth. When it could stretch no more, it ripped exposing the green below. That’s when I knew that she was a reptilian. That’s when I knew I had to take precautions.

If the best way to fight fire is with fire, then the best way to fight a lizard is as a lizard. So the next morning I went shopping for a lizard mask. It wasn’t an easy task as there were so many kinds of lizards to choose from. Plus, Lizard Green doesn’t match well with my existing wardrobe. Nevertheless, it was a matter of survival and had to be done.

After carefully selecting a mask, I put it on and hit the streets not knowing what to expect. Most people walked by as if I didn’t exist. A few small children looked at me then tightly held on to their parents. Some even shrieked.  Then there were those men in black who looked at me with suspicion…

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Related:

Jim Morrison’s advice to women + Alien Encounter +

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