Terry Russell

Dad of Jason, Stepdad of Brinnon, Joshua, and Evan, Poppa of Mila and Lilly. Widower, OU fan, and woke af.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

So as a widower of almost 3 years I am ready to start dating to be in a relationship. Online dating sites seem to be about 75% Christian Conservative. When I see that this is what I picture. Am I grossly mistaken?

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@MikeHudema Shooting a giraffe isn’t some accomplishment. It is a sign of a failure as a person. If a bear attacked you and you killed it knife and I’m impressed. Shooting animals with rifles isn’t impressive. Get out there with your god given skills only.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

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

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@YourAnonNews And you probably aren’t a self serving lowlife POS either. At 66 years old one of the characteristics I have noted from wealthy people is the lack of concern for anything or anyone outside their immediate circle. That’s why so few are concerned about our environment. Death to us.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@NickKnudsenUS Stupid people support and vote for stupid ideas.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@bourscheid That is how they have become wealthy. Nothing else matters.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@MatthwDayton Being civil is such a low bar. And, unfortunately, about 33% are all in on harming any human that is not like them. And 33% don’t want to get involved. That is until it affects them.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@cpscott16 Unfortunately, dumb people out number smart people.

[Bat 🦇 @batincrisis]

In the last 31 hours i earned a massive 9 followers, we are so back 🥳

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@AndyBeshearKY Name recognition is a top reason a candidate receives votes.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@BladeoftheS I develop profit improvement processes for businesses that are based on income incentives for the rank & file. Inevitably, once both the employees and the business are profiting, leadership will start changing the benchmarks. And call me to complain when they aren’t profiting. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@RedMedia_us Unbelievable that families abandoned them. Whatever species over takes humans should sterilize them. We are a trash species.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@jared_shult The shareholders of the companies that bribed the incompetent corrupt sexual predator POS traitor for access to our public lands.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@SaraForTexLege @LaneyHawes Republican voters for the last 40 years…

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@GWANJEZ That this ever existed should be enough for us to make an all out effort to eradicate it. But, fuck no. It’s just as bad as ever. We are a despicable species.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@MJMcKean Or the gullible fools that believe their downright diabolical nonsense.

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

Only thing I can say about Platner is it's far more believable he didn't know what that tattoo meant than that any of the 1 million times Susan Collins has claimed to be "shocked" or "concerned" about the horrible things she voted for that she's actually shocked or concerned.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@bgrheadquarters Good grief. They look like family members getting prepared for a group photo. I hope he has better lawyers in the appeal. The trial should have at least been moved to another county.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

If diversity is what made California a "shithole," then it's a strange coincidence that it also helped create Silicon Valley, Hollywood, world-class universities, the nation's largest agricultural economy, and the fourth-largest economy on Earth.

That's a lot of success for such a terrible idea.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@ctdsara @ChrisDJackson @slcarleton He still is sharper than you and about 99% of other MAGA.

[Terry Russell @TerryLRussell3]

@JoeRoganRecaps Good to hear TB shooting that shit down!
Rogan is definitely a fool.