Elle

this feeling courses through my blood night and day, full of love.

like. does a woman politely listen to a man monologue at her because of some experience she had when she was twelve that magically cursed her to behave that way forever, or does she do it because the man has the power to hurt her and she knows it?

does a woman do all the dishes in her household because she is less capable of breaking out of a long-ago conditioned response than, like, your average trained dog, or is she doing that because she knows that all the men in the house will blame her if she doesnt and will make life worse for her if she speaks up?

maybe a lot of sexist patterns of behavior that are widely observed in society arent caused by women like, lacking willpower or backbone? maybe it is super fucking weird for supposedly feminist movements to imply this is the case when they talk about female socialization as the end all, be all of predicting human behavior?

Then let it fail. What are you so afraid of? Let it prove to the world its inadequacy.

But American hegemony is afraid. They are afraid because if they left Socialist nations to themselves, they would prove they can survive and, in fact, exceed expectations.

Socialist nations manage to do so even when America kills its leaders, sabotages its factories, and cuts of its ties to the rest of the world.

So the imperial core grasps at any failure it can find, because if they did not do so, its interests would be overthrown.

In the colossal, cathedral sized water tank beneath the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, several heads of Medusa have been used as pillar bases for the past 1.500 years. It is not entirely known where the heads came from, but they were believed to be taken from some other Roman ruin. The heads are upside down or sideways to inhibit the power of the Gorgon Medusa's gaze.