such lovely talk--but bless your heart gnash-gnash for raising the bar and reminding us of a power greater than just words: our power as consumers. and better--our power NOT to consume! the power to boycott!
regardless how we talk, it's ultimately how we spend that counts. if we sincerely support women's rights, let's cease to support big institutions that destroy women's rights.
like football: surrogate warfare carried out on a mock field of battle. and what are the spoils of war? WOMEN! just see them lined up on the 40-yard line like cuts of meat. this is so much a part of our culture hardly anyone thinks about it.
for years I got to visit with a policewoman whose task was security chief for public events. she told me once she'd rather work a thousand grateful dead shows than a single duck football game. the blatant drunkenness and hooliganism, the date-rape and violence that spreads out from these events like rings on water.
how many times have we heard of football players doing rape and continuing to play ball? charges dropped or hearings postponed till after the big playoff?
we continue talking up women's rights--but let's get real and stop supporting institutions that violate them.
boycott football! and boycott advertisers who support football, like blood-wizer and koors. put our money where our mouth is!