I have an hypothesis that all cases of women’s oppression such as this could be erased overnight and it would make no difference—society would not collapse.
The same is not true for men’s oppression , but that’s another story. Does women’s oppression have to exist in order to keep Men’s oppression operating? Maybe, but I don’t see that.
Do women have to be kept “not free” in order for men to continue to not notice their own lack of freedom? Maybe, but I’m not sure. I hypothesize that women’s oppression is “historically residual” as opposed to “functionally integral”—again, a “whole nother” (as we say in the States.
女は生けているだけで偉い as they say in Jaoanese, here that if one is a woman, one is automatically a hero. One cares more, for a woman hero, fearing the consequences not only for the cause, but also for her personally. But to say she's already a heroine, no matter what happens, and an overpowered superheroine Girl Boss can overcome anything, is boring.
....and even with a casual look from the right perspective you can't help but be moved by it. No brains required.
I've been reading and re-reading Steven Pinker's When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... (great book, by the way,
absolute must-read) and he makes the point that there is no "agree to disagree" since if both parties in a
discussion are rational and have the same priors, then they have to reach the same conclusion. Otherwise,
somebody made an error in logic, and that discrepancy must be identified and hashed out by the parties in
the course of the discussion, or they have different facts and initial assumptions, which is also an
issue that has to be sorted out in the course of discussion.
1. I want to get a good stylization of the alien from the movies so I can add it into my comics
2. I want to work up the Café Xénomorphe one-page comic
3. Integrate the Café Xénomorphe into the current thread of the Kaizarian plot in the Zeppelin Saga with Lulu, Deb, Capt. de l'Eglise, Lenny & Sparky, and the others.
He makes the point, one which I and friends have made elsewhere, that so-called feminism hurts poorer women and women of color.
It occurs to me that it may be yet another “normalization of excessive wealth” memeplex. This is so that wealthy, privileged women can act in society more openly, without being seen as weird or irrelevant by people with normal issues. This is the same as the “folksification” of billionaires, for example.
He describes tradwives as rich women “cosplaying”, rather like Marie Antoinette’s Petit Trianon.
It could also be a memeplex that drags poor women into the workforce, which is kind of “as advertised”, but as he said, work is often no fun, takes up all of our time, and places our lives under the close control of an unsympathetic other. One of the many dreams that has not born fruit is that women joining this milieu would make it less cruel, either because women would bring their own brand of kindness, or that the same cruelty visited now upon women would give pause, but alas.
Schwallier said the former child star’s cause of death being attributed to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome “doesn’t surprise” him, noting “it is what it is” and that “it’s something you sometimes have to expect with the lifestyle she was living.”
Schwallier told the outlet the last time he saw Daveigh — who voiced Lilo in Lilo & Stitch — in person was when she was about six years old, but they spoke on the phone when she was growing up.
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In an interview with The New York Times after Daveigh’s death, Schwallier said he last spoke to the Donnie Darko actress when she was 19 and that she had a bad falling-out with her mom, Cathy Chase, at the time. He also told The New York Times Daveigh “had struggled with drugs since the age of 13.” Schwallier and Cathy divorced when Daveigh was young.
“I had an empty feeling inside for not being with her for all these years,” Schwallier told The California Post.
As for Daveigh’s remains, Schwallier said they went to Cathy and that he’d be willing to go to court to get some of her cremated remains if necessary, as he wants to keep them in a handmade box in his home in the Philippines, per the outlet.
As In Touch previously reported, Daveigh passed away on Tuesday, June 16, at 35 years old. The L.A. County Medical Examiner listed her primary cause of death as AIDS and put chronic polysubstance down as a significant condition, TMZ reported on Monday, June 29.
Meanwhile, Cathy spoke to the Daily Mail in an interview published Friday, June 19, revealing that she thinks her daughter’s addiction troubles started in 2016 after she was prescribed painkillers for a motorcycle accident.
“It upsets me because people are saying I must’ve been a bad mother, but I never gave up on her,” Cathy said. “As a mother, you don’t give up on your child. I was hoping she would still come home.”
