This issue dives much deeper than the sensationalist news, as you might guess, and considers how much more holistically we could stand to consider motherhood in Western society. As always, you can read the full story and this week’s horoscopes as a single-issue purchase by clicking here. Or try a free one-month trial subscription here, which also gives you access to today’s edition.
I am told, by an attorney, that a trial officially begins with the opening arguments, not during jury selection.
I looked up the Richard McTear story I mentioned in my other post. At 21 he was charged with murder; throwing his 17 year old girlfriend’s three month old baby out the car window on I-275 in Tampa. The baby was not his. (I originally thought it was on I-75, but they run into one another)
This story unfolded after the Anthony case. My point is that here in FL the cultural divides are the largest I have ever seen. If one wanted to study misogyny and racism you need not travel far. They are very much intertwined within a culture. There are many cultures here, each having its own level and expression.
The Anthony’s got so much attention here, in FL, I believe, was because she was caucasian and like Eric pointed out sociopaths appear very normal. Seeing Casey’s face on the news, one could not believe that such a “pretty girl” could be so horrific to murder her own child. “My god, look at that darling baby!”
Whereas in the other case I mentioned above, people took one look at Richard McTeary and his girlfriend and had different conclusions. Which if you pull up his name and the case, I didn’t find immediate pictures of the girlfriend, maybe because she was a minor? ! If you want to gain some cultural insights on this, google the story and read the comments on the new’s pages.
Human life and its value. Why is one little pretty white girl more cherished then another child? Then to raise her like a piece of livestock, (sorry, cows) train her to be externally beautiful, while all the while expect her to be subservient. I think the duct tape with a heart on it is a loud message. (They did bring out the heart placed on the duct tape in the trial didn’t they? That was plastered on the news during the investigation.)
The child’s death was a gift to us all. Love has to start somewhere. Enough hatred– because it hasn’t worked.
Ah jbird, you’re sweet for popping back in again to write some more — I’m glad you did. I appreciate that your idea was thought provoking and obviously it landed somewhere for me that I thought I’d share. I hope I didn’t sound too defensive but more factual.
I completely empathize with you as you grapple with the dynamics of your own relationship with your Mother, and in how to find your identity and independence from her. Good luck with all that ‘cos I know it’s not an easy process but it does get better with time 🙂
shebear, of course, sweetie…i’m there with you all the way. just felt the need now, for me anyway, to ask that mama question. i’m my mother in so many ways, and i need to let so much of that stuff go now, it is so destructive and damaging. so, i just meant to provoke that thought, see where it landed….it is always such a difficult, and tender spot to provoke.
–j
Thank you Len and your huge Goddess heart.
Jbird, I hear you on what you have to say but I would like to elaborate a little more on my own life experience, for what it is worth. I spent a ton of time in therapy, with my mother the focus of my anger for the most part. I vilified her over and over for not being there for me. It was only when my father died, five years after her death, did I realize how miserable she truly was in struggling to live within the confines of his narrow, controlling personality, which was always hidden behind an easy charm and faux light heartedness. She had been the obvious and easy target for me, always howling in pain for us all to see, but in reality she had *nowhere* in sight to run, hide or resolve their dynamic. It was a hellish situation that went round and round in circles and without a doubt her behavior left me scarred in many ways. My Dad, on the other hand, kept packing on the misery behind a subtle and easy charm, adamantly refusing to look at *his* emotional pain and grow into some semblance of responsibility and adulthood.
There’s just so much damage done when men don’t go inward and to learn to love the feminine within but instead fight it, negate it and project it outwards, no holds barred. They start wars over this shit, for heavens sake. Running from themselves is where the deep, deep pain gets pushed down and the natural loving and living, for everyone in its wake, gets stunted. I so applaud the men who manage to grow into themselves and send out the healing vibes to share, and for that I say many times over, a *big* hallelujah.
This is a fascinating and wonderful outpouring of really vital information. Eric, the whole article was awesome. I had only heard of the case vaguely on the NPR news (5:00 am, and i admit i’m usually burying my head between the pillows). but I was struck cold by a bunch of points in your original article: the Nessus angle pointing to abuse karma (my Nessus is on the 4th/IC cusp, and i’ve been reeling with that information since yesterday); also the insightful interview with the NY women’s counselor, which has reminded me that there are lots of reasons why i never had children, that i was terrified of the idea of having children….
In this whole issue’s comments, starting from the awesome letters of Cheryl, Green Star Gazer, and shebear13, who have all written so well about their own paths of pain and discovery, I have learned so much, and i thank you. I am a bi woman with no love for anything patriarchal. Yet I do feel that as a society, we need to take a closer look at the power of motherhood in encoding how we actually end up emotionally as adults, and beyond the romantic ideal that mother is always the nurturing protector. Shebear asks the deep questions about pervasive misogyny: i wonder if maybe we should look into the sacred space of motherhood, and not just at fatherhood, for some of the answers…
shebear,
So well said. i agree with all of my heart. We must unite in one voice and avail ourselves of the healing the Goddess has to offer.
As I find myself processing yet another round of heavily repressed childhood energies, I know I’m on the right path when so many synchronistic moments of late that affirm my purging. It is interesting to see that once I felt I had a handle on the absolute truest nature and source of my psychic pain, and finally gave it its true name, the path I have to go down became more focused and clear.
Once again, harkening back to the family dilemma I have to confront, I’m able to own the fact that it was and still is a straight up case of pernicious and protean misogyny. That this topic was taken on by a compatriot in a book released in 2004 sent a shiver down my spine. I found out this information whilst researching the topic on Thursday evening and then I found the author’s homepage and left a message on the guestbook.
The book is called *Misogyny, The World’s Oldest Prejudice, by Jack Holland* and it very nearly didn’t get published because tragically, one week after the manuscript was completed, Jack Holland was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of cancer. When he died two months later his publishers attempted to renege on printing, demanding that their advance be returned, but Holland’s widow and daughter insisted that it had to get printed, sought another publisher and found one in Running Press. The book has received very favourable reviews and yesterday I lucked out and found the last copy at a downtown bookstore and started reading it last night. His widow replied yesterday morning to my guestbook comments and we have struck up a dialogue since about the topic and how it related to culture the author and I grew experienced.
If we are going to shed light on the honest truth of two of the stories discussed this week at PW, Casey Anthony’s trial and the DSK/Sofitel Maid story, I feel very passionately that we have to unite in one voice, those who love and celebrate the feminine, and we must confront this scourge once and for all calling it by its name — misogyny — in fierce, relentless fashion.
Let me quote the last paragraph of his introduction:
“The hatred of women affects us in ways that no other hatred does because it strikes at our innermost selves. It is located where the private and public worlds intersect. The history of that hatred may dwell on its public consequences, but at the same time it allows us to speculate on why, at the personal level, man’s complex relationship to woman has permitted misogyny to thrive. Ultimately, such speculation should allow us to see how quality between the sexes will eventually be able to banish misogyny and put an end to the world’s oldest prejudice.”
Women and men from all walks of life who live consciously must call out abuse every time they are confronted with it. We must be alert to it, stand firm in our resolve to call it out and to push for greater systemic changes on every front where we conduct our lives. To know there is a place such as the PW blog, inspired and lead by Eric and his team who *ooze* the kind of integrity and love of freedom, each and every second of the day, is so vitally inspiring for all of us to have. Jack Holland would have loved this site, I know it.
Holland’s conclusion at the end of the book is that it is more than time to recognize that the treatment of women amounts to an abuse of human rights on an unthinkable scale and I know all who drop in here would agree with that. Now is the time. Enough is enough. Grab a copy of this book if you can and arm yourself with the historical context of this assault and find anecdotal evidence to back up any argument you are drawn into and help push forward the fight for a more equitable and loving way of life.
It is time for our collective voice to unite as one and to let them know we’re pissed. Very.
gwind… someone threw a baby out a window on the freeway and it barely got attention? good god. i remember a few years ago when someone in a fit of road rage grabbed another driver’s small dog out of a car and threw it into oncoming traffic in CA. it had been caught on video and was all over the nightly news.
i miss a lot of popular news now without a tv. but i’m floored that a baby wouldn’t get at least as much attention as a dog. race, desensitization, the shock value of video….
ugh.
Unfortunately, I have not read your article as I’m not currently in a position to be a subscriber at the moment. I’ve been a PW reader for years and do so appreciate all the great contributors to the blog.
The FBI did indeed conduct paternity tests on Lee and George Anthony which excluded them as the father.
I am wondering about any clues in the chart to Casey’s mother. A police interview with the grandmother who did not testify was telling to me. She said she didn’t know if Casey’s love for Caylee was stronger than her hatred for her mother. Other interviews from ex-boyfriends and friends clearly showed the abusive language used by Cindy towards her daughter. Videos also showed how the two were very competitive for Caylee’s affections. Jealousy over Cindy’s attention to Caylee was an issue. So it seems to me that the one way Casey could truly hurt her mother would be to take away that which was most precious from her…Caylee.
I also wonder if the public fascination with this is driven by the fact that most people are so frustrated that they are powerless to see or impose justice on those pillaging our country. So when a case like this arises, it’s an opportunity to see justice served and a release for all the frustration people regarding the “state of our country.”
Love, love, love PW and all the awesome and talented writers (and photographers) that have come onboard. You’ve come along way Eric!
Like so many others, I was not following this trial but am riveted by Eric’s piece on the aftermath of the verdict. Stunning, all of it and I’m pleased you all are watching and listening to carefully to the underlying patterns of family and abuse. I am especially taken by your interview with the motherhood therapist and hope we see more like it. What a different world this would be if Moms were physically and emotionally supported by their circle. As Uranus stations retrograde today, I am open to ways to facilitate such a process.
Brilliant and heart wrenching stuff here @ Planet Waves. I am so grateful to have this place to visit.
Mary
I appreciate what Green-Star Gazer brought out; a very heartfelt and healing point of view! The amount of hatred this case has sparked indicates just how much healing needs to occur within the culture as a whole. Mass communication allows the personal lives of our neighbors to seep into our own daily lives and it is up to us to take that information as a gift. That gift being whatever it touches within us, if we work it as if it is our own, we will grow.
Over and over again, we are reminded that we are not separate.
Being local to this story, although not glued to the tv, nor did we watch the trial, we were exposed from the very beginning to the ripple affect. People were outraged during the investigation, holding vigil at their family home, screaming at the family as they came and went. Yet, not long ago here in FL a black man went to his young girlfriend’s house, kidnapped their baby, and tossed the baby out the window while driving down
I-75. That case did not gain the public outrage, but a mug shot on the evening news. The racial divide here is something that I had to witness for myself. I thought we were further advanced.
There are so many components to this story. Again, what we do with it is up to us. Like A Course in Miracles brings forth, it is either a call to love or an act of love.
There is a lot of love needed and every player in this scenario deserves love.
If anyone would like to research the start of the trial I would be most grateful. This is not as easy to discern as the verdict. For the purposes of double jeopardy I believe that a trial begins when the first juror is sworn in. If there are any law-trained people reading, would you please offer your opinion?
Thank you.
Well said, Green Star Gazer. Astrologicially, cosmologically and humanly. Thank you. Abusers were almost always abused; the healing can come, and will, as the reality –the reality that this is REALLY going on somewhere to someone– is accepted, and we as a group of peolpe simply watch out for one another– not to condemn –but to effectively bring ourselves, family by family–those karmically-knit-together units– into safety and healing. Especially The Children. Thanks again.
I wonder if the chart for the start of the trial has anything prophetic to say about any of the characters in the trial or the unexpected outcome?
All the comments in this article are outstanding. I wish I had a quick response, but there is so much here that is stirred up, I can’t pare this down.
What happened to this little girl was wrong, tragic and inexcusable. That said, I personally believe that we come here many times from lifetime to lifetime to learn at the Soul level. I know that this is not a belief that is shared by everyone and I apologize if this idea offends you. But so many similar stories have risen out of deep trance therapies from thousands of people from all across the racial, cultural and economic spectrum that point to a much bigger picture than just this one incarnational lifestream, that I can no longer deny the probabilities that this is how it is.
When I look at Caylee’s chart what immeditately hits me are some simple, basic constructs: loaded 12th house with the sun, saturn, mercury and BML, (especially Sun opp Neptune on the decend) speak to me of a karmic destiny of one who will always be struggling to be “heard” and “seen” (even to herself had she lived longer) … I see a path so deeply infused in the karmic field that no matter what would come to pass, her life would very likely be a “hidden” one and one where her personal work and struggle would be to unmask the shadows ( Dragon’s head in the 8th), deal with illusions and delusions (Neptune) and probably forever be haunted with a lack of safety and security no matter where she called “home” (Pluto in the 4th), and yet, with that hard trine to her Asc, once again we see a destiny path thru a dark passage with powerful forces aligned for transformation and possible redemption beyond the gates of this lifetime.
With the Jupiter/Pallas/ Dragon’s tail in Libra, I see great familiarity with the Law from previous lifetimes coupled with a fierce determination to seek Justice no matter what the cost… though the “Justice” may be of a higher kind than an Earthly one. There is also a close tie to the Archetypal mother-who-gives-up-her-daughter-to-be-raped-and-held-hostage in the sun in that incredibly tight square to Ceres. I know people like to think of Ceres in her bountiful form, but let’s face it, she gave up on her daughter and gave her over to the Dark Lord, just so SHE could have her back to herself in the spring/summer. I’ve always wondered why people overlook that aspect of this goddess/story/archetype. The original Sophie’s choice, I suppose.
While I know it is hugely unpopular to speak this out loud – we don’t know what agreements were made between these souls to act out horrible, tragic patterns of abuse, neglect and abandonment so that we and they could learn from this. So many times when we listen to the stories of those who can speak from beyond the veil, we hear how the most despicable tragedies were forgiven and understood once the greater perspective is attained. The point is not to condone the patterns or behaviours that are enacted here on this side, but to grow, heal and transform them so that the karmic threads will never need to be re-enacted again and again and again. Abuse almost always has its roots in the past. Healing in the present will therefor portend a future time when we won’t have to do this to one another anymore. Perhaps Caylee, Casey and the father/grandfather triune came to work out a final karmic drama that will heal their pattern for all time, now that the catharsis has been revealed and released… we don’t know. It does not excuse what happened, but we just don’t know.
I do not say this lightly… and I do not mean it as an acceptance of the abuse and neglect… but it is the only way I can wrap my mind around how these dramas arise in the first place. We, as multi-dimensional beings are being called to hold the space of “both-and” rather than “either-or”. It is a paradox and it is complex and it is not easy. This is the calling that some of us are now able to embrace and to try and articulate, and there are so many voices here in this forum who do that so beautifully. Holding this multi- dimensional perspective does not condone these outrageous violations, but rather, gives us a place from which to begin to forgive and heal. For the Soul who chose to come in as Casey, into what looks like a destiny path with a particularly sharp evolutionary edge, I have immense gratitude for her sacrifice, bravery and compassionate heart to be willing to take up such a difficult incarnational path. What we all can do, now that her journey has shown yet another light onto what needs healing in ourselves and in our culture, is to empower all the future children, parents and people of all description to look out for one another more carefully… to pay attention to “signs” and be willing to step up and help battered and abused women (especially those with children) be strong enough to make better choices, for themselves and their children so they can break the cycle… and, we need to support the men in all of this too, for they have probably been abused when they were children and have their own rage they are acting out. We all need to heal from this terrible affliction of supposed adults hurting children.
My heart goes out to all who have suffered so much in this drama. As for the parasites and leeches who try to make money or get their cheap thrills off these tragedies, I have no sympathy what-so-ever.
Eric, thank you for posting Cheryl’s “version.” Planet Waves with this blog, your articles and your democratic exercise of posting emails like Cheryl’s as you have today assures me that PW is a safe place for me. I have shed many tears today since reading, slowly, one post at a time, absorbing the facts of shattered lives again, darkness, fear horror and abuse; As this type of truth is exposed it helps us who have survived it believe that the unexplainable suffering some of us have experiecned is not in vain. The light will come in. The dissociation will stop. We will become whole.
Yes; well-said Eric.
The notion of corporate personhood is so tenuous as to be hanging by an imaginary thread– but the courts recognize it. But the whole thing is darned interesting, particular with Uranus in Aries. Are computers going to be considered people soon?
Why is it that everything but a person has the rights of a person? The whole thing seems to be a ruse for an endrun on human rights.
AMEN carol van strum. Let’s Do It.
Hang on!?! Why wasn’t this argument used to beat Citizens v. U.S. come to think of it? You could still say to be a “person” you must have been delivered from a womb and have gone through the stages of fetus, etc. Just sayin’.
Hi Eric – Not surprised at all re the legislation being dropped in the 80s; that was what I was trying to get at — that the corporations will never go for this. They can never truly be friends with their religious fringe.
This is from Carol van Strum, who is on our editing-research team:
Any time there is a proposal to declare a fetus/embryo/zygote a human being and destruction of it murder, we should take the opportunity to embrace the idea so that decision-makers for chemical companies, government agencies, and any other entity that makes or uses chemical or radioactive materials capable of killing or maiming a fetus/embryo/zygote can be charged with intentional, willful, premeditated murder (or mass murder). [When Eric Jansson testified in congress to this effect back in the ’80s, the proposed legislation making an embryo a person was immediately dropped.]
Hi Eric — Thanks for this great article and for including the comments from Jerilyn Brownstein. I think you should send the last sentence in the second-to-last paragraph to all of our lawmakers.
I’d like to point out something in regard to the crazy Alabama legislature’s attempts to control reproduction. It seems to me that if they succeed in changing the definition of “person” to “all humans from the moment of fertilization and implantation into the womb,” and/or to simply “the fetus,” they will have effectively reversed the faulty Supreme Court decision that states a corporation is the same as a person, since a corporation, no matter how hard it tries, will never have a “moment of fertilization and implantation into [a] womb,” nor will it ever be a “fetus.” Of course, this seems like an exceedingly high price to pay (that will be borne mostly by women) to overturn an obviously misguided ruling, which seems to be a kind of reductio ad absurdum-type argument.
Have a great weekend All.
Amanda — by that I mean — whomever is represented by Juno (square the nodes). Since this was Casey’s trial I take that in the first instance to be her partner or partner at the time. I was not following this case — and the many details — so if anyone who has the facts down could explain them in terms of who constituted the nuclear family at the time, I would be grateful.
I have just been given Caylee’s birth data including the time and I will post that chart shortly.
ef
cheryl:
Your take on this case feels right to me. The dirty little secrets that escape the light of day, and the thought of revealing incest by the father too dark to even be spoken out loud by, as you aptly describe — a patriarchal press. I work as an artist in women’s jails, and have been doing so for the last twenty years. The pattern you describe is real.
ah – eric – when you wrote, “the whole case hinges on the spouse,” i thought you were referring to Casey’s boyfriend of some sort, and wondered why you weren’t mentioning Casey’s father, given the abuse described.
clearly, assuming the sexual abuse is true, Casey’s father (or possibly her brother?) could very easily be Caylee’s father. it can be more than a little tricky to keep straight, especially when dealing with symbols and a lot of unknowns. i get that the phrase “the spouse” is kind of a general stand-in term for whoever fathered the child and/or was acting in that role in some fashion at the time, yes?
Cheryl – not sure if you’ll see any comments here since you emailed yours to eric, but thank you for diving into this topic, and for bringing up the point about how distance from an abusive situation can allow dissociation to dissolve some.
One of the memories that came back to me in the course of my therapy was almost dying, smothered to death in the process of an oral rape as a very young child. Actually, I do believe that part of me died. As part of my therapy process, I held a funeral for that child.
Thanks for these astute comments, Cheryl.
The chart confirms what you say: the 5th house Nessus is all about childhood sexual abuse; the role of Caylee’s father is accented by Juno precisely square the lunar nodes. That is what I mean by the whole case hinges on the spouse.
Astrology aside, where there is the death of a child in a family with this kind of abuse, look for the rest of the pattern. I have also seen a number of cases wherein suicide follows a pattern of childhood sexual abuse. This is a matter of the guilt being too unbearable.
Re Casey being a sociopath, the thing about sociopaths is they usually seem very, very normal. There is not usually an overt sign of delusion or of deep issues, and that is why they are so dangerous. They can blend in with the people around them and seem like they have a constructive role. She seems more the borderline type of personality to me.
In publishing this article, I intended to open up the conversation of the deeper issues. Thanks for continuing it. Comment of others with a psychiatric or psychological background welcome.
ef
Hi Eric,
I think what hasn’t been discussed enough, and I wish your post had picked up on Casey Anthony’s descriptions of sexual abuse by father and brother.
Many girls have died during forced oral sex. Caley? My take on the case all along was one of an “unrevealed” victim of CSA behaving in the crazy way one does when raised with incest. Casey was long accustomed to lying. On the stand may have been the first time she spoke of the incest. The dad, Casey and Caley were at the house when the “accident” happened. Why is everybody SOLELY focusing on Casey when the father, the purported abuser and child rapist, not more thoroughly investigated?
Look, I don’t know what happened in Florida years ago. A child is dead. I wish for her sake that the death was a painless accident, one with no fear, violence, terror. I am not being callous when I say that so many many children are dead, ones the press never describes as pretty, beautiful, precious, cute, tragic — ones the press never describes at all, like all the Pakistani and Afghani children killed by drones which are, by definition, heartless, soul-less, premeditated murders.
I do know this: while most everyone I know claims to “know” the statistics about rates of incest, “know” that men rape and terrorize and murder children every single damn day, when any one woman stands and says, “This happened to me” she is immediately disbelieved. As if “those children” child rape happens to are aliens, out there, somewhere. As if the adults who rape children are even more alien, evil outsiders, half mythological boogeymen.
Since none of us know what happened, how has the press created a narrative so strong that hundreds of thousands of people are ready to lynch this woman? The 13 people that did get to see and hear what exists of the evidence said, quickly, that it was not enough to prove anything.
Since none of us know what happened, let’s try on a different narrative, one that all kinds of official FBI statistics and years of sociological and therapeutic studies say could be true. Casey Anthony, as a girl, was raped, humiliated, and terrorized by a father obsessed with controlling everything about her. Her brother was, on occasion, part of this abuse. She therefore grew up in a web of fear and lies, probably with a high level of dissociation, one that would allow her to live through hell at night and get up and go to school as if life were normal in the morning. Both the lying and the dissociation became habitual, such that even Casey’s closest friends had no idea what was true. When Casey became pregnant, she at first “didn’t know” for many months, and then never told a consistent story about who the father was. With no real life skills, and under her father’s obsessive control, she continued to stay intertwined with her family, ensuring the lying and dissociation remained uninterruptable. She was, her friends report, an extremely loving and attentive mother. But then again, her friends were also always being lied to about basic details of her life.
Then, at her parents’ house with her mother gone, something happened, which resulted in her father saying that Caylee was dead and that they would have to cover up the death. How did Caylee die? Casey reported that her father reported the girl had drowned. If so, why not call an ambulance, call the police, report the horrible accident?
Exactly. Without really knowing what happened, let’s suppose, as we’re supposing all of this, that Caylee died the way plenty of girls have died, while being orally raped by an adult male. (Sorry if even reading that upsets you, but reality is reality and it ain’t pretty or easy or nice.) Or maybe she died some other way under this man’s hands – since the body was missing for so long, we may never know. We do know that the body, when found, had been treated the exact same way Daddy George buried family pets, mouth and feet duct taped and the body then wrapped in a blanket. And we do know that Casey pretty much lost her mind at that point, descending in a dark fantasy world where the child had never existed, then, pulled out of that world, into a pathetic, amateur web of lies.
(Here’s where I can’t agree with the press conclusion that’s she a classic sociopath – she just doesn’t seem that smart or calculating. Latina nanny is right up there with Susan Smith’s black car jacker. And need I remind you that Susan Smith’s daddy started raping her as a young teen and continued into her 20’s?)
Why did the story of the incest, her father’s “discovery” of Caylee’s body, the cover-up, only come out at trial? One proven theory – that, after three years in jail away from her family, Casey finally had enough distance from the terror to begin to move out of the lying and dissociative breaks. One theory, but it’s been true plenty of times in the history of incarceration, including folks who finally get sober, finally are safe from some kinds of violence (and victim to others in the horror that is our prison system), finally stop running and begin to have their lives catch up to them.
I’m not asking you to take this as truth, or to take it whole-cloth. I’m only asking that you hold this story up to the story the press has been telling, and measure for yourself the gaps, the unlikely moments, the prejudices, of each. I’m very clear about my prejudices and assumptions here, as an incest survivor myself. I know that incest survivors, as young adults, often drink, sleep around, take stupid risks, and get into to awful situations way over their heads, and that this is a pattern started by the abuse.
Who in the press will be so honest about the assumptions driving THEIR version? Why bring up all the mommy blaming when there’s a more realistic, starkly avoided by our patriarchal press, explanation behind this press magnet topic?
Thanks, wish you had a comments section so the readers could weigh in on your columns?
Cheryl
Thank you for covering this story, eric. It’s an act of community love and political power to monitor the information that’s being fed us.
So many of us are trapped inside pre-delineated roles that have no bearing on reality. A tradition passed from grandmother to mother to daughter without question, with those who question scorned or worse. Or if you’re different, you have to live with a lie.
I think about all the men and women in factories and jobs that rob them of life, inch by inch. Yet work is an approved form of self-definition and identification. What about the rest of you?
We keep saying here that the freedom of men and women lies in release from shame and guilt, and specifically gender framing, which is a form of social incarceration. Think about all those tortured people running for office and succeeding, who think they can right some moral wrong about abortion, sex education, de-funding Planned Parenthood and homosexuality — all the things that really don’t need to be righted. In turn they have to torture and enslave us with their idiot policies.
Harridans and shills like Nancy Grace and Bill O’Reilly entrap us with a false sense of community by group condemnation. It’s only a matter of time before they too get their nasty underwear drawers pulled open. On that day, please make sure I have plenty of popcorn on hand.