A Man's World

It makes me pretty sad and pissed off about the results of the primaries .
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Obama, he seems to be a decent guy, although i don't really believe he is all the change people assume he is. But anyway, since the beginning, as everyone was so worried that Obama will not be regarded as the democratic candidate because of his lack of experience, I was 100% sure that Hillary was not going anywhere with her campaign. You wanna guess why? well, if you know how the US is, you would definately figure out that it is still a man's world there as much as it is in other countries that have never had a female president. There are many people who believe a woman would do an even better job in the oval office, but they are a minority. The "American Idiot" was not made up by Green Day, these people exist. And even if some people are racist, trust me, their sexism and machismo is bigger, and they would rather vota for a man of any race, even if he is of Afghani/Saudi origin with a last name that starts with "Bin" instead of voting for a woman.
The world truely sucks. And even though I am not a huge fan of Clinton herself, because I see the US government as a big company in which the CEO does nto make the calls, but the board of directors, and policies do not change that much anyway, but I wanted to see a woman doing what she was told she can't do.
People did not vote based on experience or quality of the candidate's character. they did not evaluate these two candidates based on their political vigor and leadership skills. They thought about whether it would be better to have a black president, or a female president. And between people's racism and sexism, one was more intense than the other. In reality, people did not care Obama is black, nor that he had Muslim origins, all they cared about was that he has a dick...simple as that.
This election year is a shame on human kind, and really, a shame on the US, for failing to be like the states that accepted females as leaders. Third world countries like Indonesia, Phillipines, India, Pakistan, and the list goes on.

A Thousand Times

A thousand times she had risen
with the sun
Baking the bread of the day
Making lunch for a thousand guests
Washing clothes of a thousand children
she had once borne
Vacuuming a thousand steps
Falling down the stairs
under a thousand stars
A thousand times she had cried
in front of the mirror
Looking at her face
of a thousand wrinkles
Broken soul
Injured heart
Bruised body
Under a thousand layers
of blackness
Lost years
Twenty that felt like a thousand
A thousand times she had prayed for her husband
to never come back
to marry a thousand wives
And for herself
to never have another child
Another bruise
Another chore
Another world to carryon her weary shoulders
Another thousand worries and oven burns
A thousand times they’d say
She died young
That woman of twenty years
and a thousand smiles
and a thousand tears
and a thousand children
and a thousand bruises
and cooking pots
and wrinkles
Twenty years
they say she had lived
but they don’t know
that she was
a thousand years

*a poem I once published.

Chauvinist Childhood

Today as I was running some errands and waiting for a cab in front of a gate to someone's house, the door opened and a little girl no older than 5 popped her head out then took a step onto the sidewalk. All of a sudden another kid came out, this time a boy who looks a year older than his -i persume- sister, and started shouting. He then pulled the little girl's poney tail and said "come back in, whore!"

This is a small incident that tells about the idiotic gender inequality in this country that is so deeply rooted and taught like holy scripture. Once you are born with an extra peice of equipment between your legs, you automatically are braught up and taught that you are superior than any female in your family or anywhere in the vast universe even if she is older, smarter, more talented, stronger, or even if she is your mother. This is why this country will not advance in any way no matter how many efforts are made economically and politically if this disgusting chauvinist, sexist and patriarchal mentality is not eliminated. This is the twenty first century for God's sake!

In all honesty, and even though I am 100% against violence, the most prevailant feeling I had at the moment the little girl was humiliated and pulled back into the house was extreme fury; i just wanted to go slap the boy and put him back in his lpace, just like I would have if I had been a little girl ever insulted by a boy. I am goign to risk sounding like some nazi dictator, but I wish I could get the whole population a brain translpant!

The Pornography of Meat

I saw this book and flipped through it at a crazy/awesome leftist bookstore two summers ago. I was only a summer intern and didn't have enough money on my debit card to buy it, but I have been dying to read it ever since.

This book is about true feminism and journalism, and somehow vegeterianism. About women being treated like a peice of meat and about meat products portrayed as women and all that this indicates. The book reveals so many ways in which women until this day are being used and their images distorted and abused. This book is for every woman who cares for her rights and for every man who wants to learn why there is an international Women's Day and no "day" for men, and of course for men who support our movement.

the Pornography of Meat is a revealing, empowering, and informative book that everyone who can find it should read. I am getting it in August!