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Why Human Societies Suck and the Personal is Most Certainly, Political
All truth-tellers are made into scapegoats and the rich get richer passing the buck and now we have a total shitstorm of climate catastrophe that’s just about guaranteeing the sixth mass extinction.
But all you want to ask me is, ‘Why you didn’t get married? You are sweet and kind and you look rather pretty…
Excuse me while I leave, to roam the streets and scream my heart out.
Yes, police officer, maybe I am having a nervous breakdown. Is that against the law? I promise I’ll try to re-hinge myself quietly over there. No, I don’t think so, I wouldn’t be so inconsiderate as to throw myself off a bridge during rush hour traffic, just because little old me is very upset. Can’t I cry in peace? No, I’m not a danger to others nor to myself. Really, I don’t plan to trouble anyone. Trouble… That word again… Yeah, I confess, I do often get called a ‘troublemaker’.
I recall…
When my mother said my monthly blood was a sign of being dirty, I didn’t agree. My mother said I was defying Allah and so… I was in trouble.
When my white teacher said my writing was so good I must have copied it and so for working very hard and doing my research very well, I was again in trouble.
