[b]Bianco Luno
Radio commentary: “Society only becomes aware of a fraction of the number of rapes of women by men.”
And each woman will only become aware of a fraction of the number of times she is raped in the course of her life.[/b]
There will always be a gap between imagination and reality here. Bigger in some, smaller in others.
[b]Bob Dylan:
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only[/b]
Right, sure.
[b]Bianco Luno
I’m fond of oppressed groups, particularly the kind that have been oppressed almost
out of existence—or who are, still better, completely extinct.
Beautifully dead and gone.
I can champion their cause with the skimpiest reservation.
Among oppressed groups, then, women are special and problematic.
How can we imagine their oppressors outliving them?[/b]
Try to imagine the dismay [or the outrage] of those not able to admit this can only be a point of view.
And what if, instead, it were entirely consistent with the world we lived in?
The science of gender? The science of oppresssion? The science of government begetting a new world order?