Enhance Modernity, Reclaim Tradition

My mother, who spent decades in workspaces with a majority/totality of women, would like to confirm this.

I don't get it

Women give and make sure people are fed

Men barely care if you're clean as long as there's a hole to fuck

I can't stand what people do to each other in war

Any and all excuse to grivously harm

If that were you

I don't get it.

There are women who want to follow their passions and make a contribution to the world.

But other women feel threatened and try to cut them down.

I can't stand the way that women convince themselves that violence is a male problem.

Any and all excuse to argue that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, and not members of the same species that has remarkably little sexual dimorphism.

I know what it's like to understand that someone intends to conquer and destroy me, and what it's like to feel the drive to fight back at all costs.

Surrounded by girls and by women who thought nothing of hurting me - and yes, I do mean physically as well - I watched old war films for comfort. I wanted to be like the men who fought with honour and comradeship. Not the girls who threatened, harassed, and assaulted me, and then played victim; not the grown women who believed them and then felt justified in threatening, harassing, and assaulting me when I was still a small child (a little girl, in their eyes, but one who deserved to be hurt).

My mother, who spent decades in workspaces with a majority/totality of women, would like to confirm this.

USS Grampus (SS-207) lors de ses essais au large de Groton – Connecticut – États-Unis – 26 mars 1941

Photographer : The Electric Boat Company

I'm much dearer to myself than I used to be; since I've gotten you in my heart, I value myself more, as a stone to which carving has been added is worth more than its original rock. Or, as a written or painted page or sheet is better thought of than any scrap or shred, so do I of myself, since I became a target marked by your face, which does not hurt me. Secure with such a mark, I go anywhere like one who has with him amulets or weapons that make every danger fade away from him. I prevail against water and against fire, with your mark I restore light to all the blind, and with my spittle I can cure every poison.