“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’
And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
— Sir David Attenborough
"El capitalismo no surge del ahorro y del esfuerzo individual, sino del saqueo colonial constante, de la esclavitud y la explotación de los pueblos subdesarrollados, de la sangre de los esclavos negros".
Rosa Luxemburgo.
En Uganda, en las minas de Kilembe, niños de apenas 12 años pican cobalto para que grandes multinacionales hagan sus baterias y limpien su imagen vendiendo que estan muy comprometidas con el medio ambiente.
El capitalismo verde no soluciona el cambio climatico, solo lo monetiza
Es normal que los hombres ataquen un movimiento que de no existir les permitiría seguir abusando y agrediendo a las mujeres sin consecuencias sociales ni legales.
El hombre cis promedio no contempla que esta desigualdad no es una cuestión de generos sino de clases, pero claro es más facil señalar al feminismo que a la casta que se enriquece a base de explotar a la clase trabajadora
Ya lo dije una vez con la prostitución y lo repito con los vientres de alquiler:
No son un ejercicio de libertad, sino la culminación de la violencia económica del capital sobre la mujer proletaria. No existe consentimiento allí donde impera la necesidad de supervivencia.
a mi lo de que esté normalizado que el humor de los hombres se resuma a la pedofilia, la prostitución, violación y homofobia desde que salen al mundo es algo que me preocupa tanto
"La fiesta de los toros es un espectáculo hortera y tercermundista, rodeado de gangsters aceitosos de tercera división, de pícaros chorizos,[...] de señoritos latifundistas, patriotas con puro y clavel, de negocios sucios bien sombreados por la bandera nacional."
Manuel Vicent-
She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist
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Hay una pandemia de fátiga crónica, procrastinación, sensación de baja autoeficacia, problemas atencionales, olvidos frecuentes, niebla mental, rumiación cognitiva, sensación de inutilidad, de no haber hecho algo importante en lo que llevan de su vida, cansancio de la existencia. Todos los días escucho narrativas muy similares en mi consulta. Nuestra mente le cuesta aceptar nuestro diseño imperfecto, la falta de coherencia, la incertidumbre y la búsqueda de explicación a todo sin tener todas las respuestas.
Diría q uno de los máximos intereses del sistema patriarcal de los hombres es este, minimizar estas primeras agresiones sexuales. Romper a las niñas desde bien temprano. Las adultas que lo defienden, ya están bastante rotas. Y ese es el fin que buscan. Mujeres rotas y cómplices.
En el este de Camerún, asi se ven las minas de oro, con madres con sus bebés en brazos y niños de menos de 5 años recolectando el mineral en aguas contaminadas, para llenar los bolsillos a los capitalistas.
Esto es el capitalismo, pero como no ves su cadena de producción esclavista en los paises donde los buitres capitalistas saquean los recursos, parece que este otro mundo no existe.
Ya lo decía Lenin hace más de
100 años: "El capitalismo convierte incluso a los niños en mercancía; millones de niños en países colonizados africanos mueren de hambre y trabajan como esclavos para que las damas burguesas de París Ileven seda, oro y diamantes".
Según la antropóloga Margaret Mead el más antiguo signo de civilización es un fémur de hace 15.000 años, con signos de una fractura que se había curado. Otros humanos lo cuidaron.
Según la escuela austríaca de economía si te quebraste y no tenés plata jodete porque nada es gratis
Only women can breastfeed. Saying so should not be controversial, and it should certainly not be treated as unlawful.
Yet Jasmine Sussex has been dragged through years of legal proceedings for raising legitimate concerns about male “chestfeeding” and infant safety.
Her case returns to QCAT today - and it's a chilling reminder of what happens when biological truth becomes punishable.
👉 Read more: https://t.co/WfhwjQyr3L
#IStandWithJasmineSussex #Auspol