Wednesday, May 15, 2019

This Is Not Cheerful And It's Not Funny In The Least

I've got a soup of white beans and parmesan rinds and onions and fennel and garlic and celery and kale and collards simmering away on the stove right now. It's yet another NYT's recipe and I guess it'll be okay. I don't know.
Not really sure how anything can be okay right now.
These anti-women laws that some states are passing are fucking with my mind. What is wrong with us as a society that we allow these goddamned white men to pass laws that they not only do not understand but which are cruel and hateful towards women and which will surely lead to the deaths of women if the courts don't shut them down?
And how can women have allowed this to happen?
I heard a woman today on NPR saying that she's been pro-life and on the front lines of trying to end abortion for years and that this is all a great victory.
A great victory.
These people saw Trump's win in 2016 as their chance, their shot, to finally load the courts with "their" people, judges who are as ignorant and as short-sighted and as hateful as they themselves are. And it looks like their plan is working.
Almost every day I wonder how on earth so many Republicans can be so very cruel. Take the separation of families at the border situation- is there anything more despicable than that?
It goes without saying that the same people who claim to believe that a fertilized egg is a human being with rights refuse to see that once one of their precious zygotes gets born they still have rights. Rights like having health care and enough food to eat and decent child care and the right to not be ripped from the arms of their parents. And if they're female, the right to grow up and not have to worry about being forced to carry to term a baby conceived in rape or incest.
I mean, it would be great if no one had to worry about rape or incest but I seriously doubt we're going to be able to eliminate those any time soon.

What am I doing? I'm preaching to the choir.
Y'all know. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

Evil. Pure, unadulterated evil.

And hey- let's go to war again. I swear to god- I bet you any amount of money that Donald Trump will not consider his presidency a true success unless he takes us to war. You just know that's the truth of the matter. He's a bully and he's the bully with the biggest military in the world. You think he's going to let that opportunity go to waste?
Fuck no.
He is not. The man who of course never got within a continent's distance of actually having to fight in a war is probably panting with the anticipation of putting hundreds of thousands of other mothers' children in harm's way.
And mothers.
And children.

Yeah. Well. Hey.
Got that soup simmering.
Probably going to make some cornbread.

You know what? I'm not going to live forever. So why do I care? Why do I care that our planet is dying? Why do I care about any of this stuff?


There's one reason. 
My baby. Your baby. Our babies. Their babies. The ones who are already here, the ones who are just a gleam in the eyes of two people in love. 
All the babies. I want them all to have the best possible lives. Which means that they have to be wanted. Which means that their possibly potential mothers need to have the right to discern whether or not that's even possible. Which means that no one but that woman has the right to decide. Certainly not some bullshit supposed "Christian" man who doesn't even have the most basic understanding of what pregnancy and childbirth and being a mother means. 
Not in the medical sense, not in the economic sense, not in the emotional, spiritual or any other damn sense. 
Sometimes I don't even think that these people understand what it means to be human.
Sometimes it is easier for me to believe that trees and chickens are more sentient than many people. 
Always, I believe that a lot of folks have no concept of what love is. What compassion is. What respect is or what wonder is. 

I should try to work on all of that myself. I know I do. 

Meanwhile, I'm awfully tired. 

I bet our planet is too. 

Love...Ms. Moon


34 comments:

  1. Well, you said everything I've been thinking. I am so ANGRY with the old white guys who know nothing about anything passing laws to control women's bodies. I'm just sick of it. We are so going to war, they're pulling non essential personnel out of Iraq. The soup sounds really good. Cornbread sounds good, too.

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    1. The soup was not good. The cornbread was very good.
      The white guys making these laws can suck donkey dicks.

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  2. The ignorance knows no limits.

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  3. My friend and I drank green tea in her garden today, for five hours..we are in shock...again. I have no words, just trying to make a plan to possibly leave this land in the lurch especially when the next election is rigged and the rump gets in again, we are sunk.If I had young children now I would most certainly go down that route, and take Granny with us!

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    1. Twice. We are of the generation which has had to fight this battle twice. And the skirmishes have never ended.
      Just...fuck!

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  4. I am in total agreement with every single thing you said, and just as cynical that there will ever be a significant change for women's rights given the current white man's assumed right to rule the world. I worry so much about the world my 6 year old granddaughter is going to inherit - my heart aches for her and her contemporaries - how will they cope with the shit 'we' are burdening them with!?! Some days I find it really hard to believe that somehow, some way, humans will find a way to survive and thrive. On those days, I want to stay in bed with the covers over my head. But you HAVE to have hope, ya know? For the little ones.

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    1. I suppose we do have to have hope. It's ridiculously difficult though, isn't it?

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  5. ...and next time you are out on a walk, look for a stone that catches your eye. Bring it home and when you feel overwhelmed with memories, put them all in the stone, bury them there. Take that stone to the grave of your tormentor and leave it on his grave - full of all your pain and hate and torment and guilt and bad feelings - leave it there to weigh down his soul forever. Leave it all there in that stone. It will weigh him down forever, he will not be able to rise over it. And you will rest easier because that stone will hold it all for you right there and let you have some rest and freedom. It works. Love.

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    1. Not in a voo-doo kind of way, ha, just that it transfers some of the negative away from you if you think of it as 'gone'. It sounds a little nutsy, but it may help to emotionally send it there because there is absolutely nothing you can do about it now, because it happened, but this is an emotional way of putting it behind you. It's there, in that fucking stone, but it no longer has power. I hope that makes sense, Ms Moon.

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    2. Thank you, Dianne. That is very sweet. However, it's not the sort of thing that would work for me. I'm just too pragmatic. Also? I have no idea where the bastard is buried nor do I care to know.

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  6. I feel my friends and I feel me sinking, sunk, sunk in this despair. All our wild enthusiasm of a couple of years back of just defying the fucker to the wall, taking the wind out of him, just can't work. He is killing us with CO2. People who screamed and rent breasts over dead babies and separated children don't have many screams left. I am grateful to be 76. I will die and leave it all to youngsters who actually believe we can live on the moon.

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    1. I hear you, Joanne. Sinking into despair myself and it does not feel good. May the young ones have the energy to take up where we left off because obviously, it has to be done.

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  7. I made the mistake of reading the news before I went to bed last night and was so upset I didn't sleep a wink.

    I cannot believe what is happening to women's reproductive rights, and how a few old, rich men in office seek to enslave 166 million women by controlling their reproduction. By fucking god, not only do they defund planned parenthood and make access to good birth control very difficult for the average women, but they then make abortion a felony! Meanwhile mom's have no maternity leave, no affordable healthcare, and no affordable daycare.

    The fact that abortion legislation is being pushed through that doesn't even make exceptions for rape and incest is SHOCKING to me. This is the hill I will fight and die on....while I've always considered myself a moderate, I will now vote for the most radical liberal I can find who will fight for women's rights above all other causes.

    *deep breath* ok, I'm done ranting. It's good to see your blog Mary Moon, and know I'm not alone in my complete and utter outrage.

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    1. No, Violet. You are not alone. You are not the only one enraged by the cruelty, hypocrisy and ignorance. I agree with you- we have to vote in huge numbers. We have to vote for women's rights. Again. And again. And again.

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  8. I'm without words tonight except I feel utterly traumatized today. Just sick with it all.

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  10. Being part of The Resistance is still important... even the hardest battles for righteousness must be fought tenaciously. I'm a moderate... I'm very much Pro-Life but also Pro-Choice if that makes sense. It grieves me that any Child would be aborted, yet I defend the Right of every Woman to choose for herself what she feels is the right thing for her situation. Each of us lives with the choices we make in this Life but we should have the Right, the Freedom, to choose and not have someone presume to make our choices for us or take them from us! As for War, yes, I'm afraid you are spot on about 45's enthusiasm to stroke his own Ego by engaging our Military in another War... not like his own Life would be at stake, he really has no skin in that game whatsoever and he's a total Sociopath. I never thought I'd live to see the day that America was led by a total Sociopath!

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  11. You express what I feel about all this so eloquently...Every clinic I stood at back in the day, every trip to Tally or Washington and we have THIS now makes me ill...

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  12. I know. Awful, awful people. And the hypocrisy!

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    1. Cruel, ignorant, awful people. Who are the worst hypocrites.

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  13. I am with you all the way and we are many. We know hat we are many even if social media screams otherwise.
    This will not stop here. We will not allow this. Never mind your aching hips and my shitty disease.

    And what a beautiful picture of you with your grandson.

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  14. I hope more Americans will vote in the next election and vote them out of office. I hope Americans will demand decent politicians with integrity. I hope Americans will demand funding for education and health care.

    Our country is swinging to the right again sadly. Makes me feel sick as well. And tired.

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    1. I share your hopes. All of them.
      And what a concept- politicians with integrity.

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  15. I could not agree more. I am especially mystified by pro-life women who support the anti-abortion agenda. I realize it's grounded in religion and I am not religious, which is probably why it's all so unfathomable to me, but STILL. Women have a hard enough time with a lot of men working against them -- they don't need help from their own!

    I'm starting to think that I really am in a tiny minority of people and I just have to accept that the majority wants all this awful stuff that's brewing in the world -- racial conflict and war with Iran and abortion bans and discrimination against immigrants and whatnot. I mean, maybe this really IS Democracy. It kills me to think that, but if people vote for this stuff and these governments over and over, what are we supposed to do?!

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    1. Steve, I just don't understand the women who are so anti-women either. Religion does have a lot to do with it, of course, and of course all the major religions are so damn patriarchal. Another thing I hate about religion. Women are almost always secondary to men.
      I guess this IS Democracy. I don't know any of the answers. I just know that this sucks.

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  16. and he tweeted over and over during Obama's presidency that Obama was going to start a war with Iran because...pick a reason. listening to an interview last night on NPR on the way home from yoga that the state department was calling all unnecessary embassy personnel from Iraq because of 'credible' intel that Iran is instigating some sort of attack. such bullshit! it is Trump's state department and I don't believe a word they say, just more made up justification, especially since Trump ignores any and all advice from our intelligence community. and re the debacle in Alabama, they admit that it is an attempt to get it before the Supreme Court in an effort to have RvsW overturned.

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    1. Yep. They were just waiting for their chance to get Roe V. Wade back in front of a Supreme Court weighted heavily to the conservative side. And it's happening.
      There is nothing about Trump which does not reek of the stench of ignorance and narcissism and evil.

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  17. I love seeing your beautiful face.

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