Sunday, March 13, 2011

Natural Treatment for Radiation Exposure in Japan: Seaweed. Also: Homeopathy for Trauma and Shock

See also *this post* on iodine treatments for thyroid protection.

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According to Michio and Aveline Kushi, macrobiotics is very effective in curing radiation sickness. In his book Macrobiotic Diet, Michio Kushi states: ‘At the time of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D., was director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki. Most patients in the hospital, located one mile from the center of the blast, survived the initial effects of the bomb, but soon after came down with symptoms of radiation sickness from the radioactivity that had been released. Dr. Akizuki fed his staff and patients a strict macrobiotic diet of brown rice, miso* and tamari soy sauce soup, wakame and other sea vegetables , Hokkaido pumpkin, and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets. As a result, he saved everyone in his hospital, while many other survivors in the city perished from radiation sickness.’”

* miso: paste made from fermented soya beans and barley or rice malt, used in Japanese/macrobiotic cookery
  
Compare On Macrobiotics, Seaweed for important hints re purchasing quality seaweed and Modifilan.

Sites on homeopathic treatment for shock and trauma from earthquake:

http://www.thehomeopathiccoach.com/blog/shock-grief-trauma-and-homeopathy.html

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Chch-earthquake-support/Other/auction-357542731.htm

http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/homeopathy/a/Trauma.htm


Saturday, March 12, 2011

Notes on Predation and Affection: When is a Hug not Just a Hug?

image is from here
I've been dealing a lot lately with this matter of how we communicate, physically and emotionally, and whether it is meaningfully loving or respectful to the recipient. How words or other actions are received does matter--it's not just the intentions (if good) that matter. And if my actions are received as abusive or hurtful when they are, to me, intended to be loving, then something is off somewhere. It may mean the recipient isn't capable of receiving love. Or it could be that they are so triggered when approached, due to past aggression and assault, that any kindness if physically initiated by someone else, can feel like another threat or an impending assault. Or it may be that I'm doing something I'm not aware of--subconsciously; I might be callously and selfishly disregarding someone's body language that is not welcoming me to come closer. Or it may be that the other person has a structural political relationship to me, with me in a position of power over them, that I'm unwilling to be appropriately away of. Breaches of safety and consent can happen in many different ways.

I know a woman, a white woman who is many years my senior, who likes to hug me. She comes right up when she sees me and hugs me. What is she intending to communicate? Probably some degree of affection. How do I receive it? As a kind of violation. Why?

Because I grew up feeling like my body wasn't really mine. I grew up feeling like it existed for others to use, to do with what they wanted for their own satisfactions. By age eight I had been molested. By age thirteen I had been sexually assaulted. And in my adult life I gave myself to a relationship with a very sexually selfish man who contacted me when he wanted sex--and that's the only time he would contact me, generally. He'd call from motel rooms and request my presence, which is to say, my absence. He didn't want me, really. He wanted my body to function to please him. To bring him to orgasm. That's what he wanted and that's what he requested. He never kissed me--not once. He never expressed love for me. He only thanked me for coming by when he was done with me.

I grew up in a generation where children were taught to obey adults; to do as they say. To hug if asked to hug. To let adults pick me up if they wished to. Whatever they wanted to do, the message to me and most children of my era was "adults get to decide how and when they have physical access to you". "To say no is to be rude and spoiled and selfish."

I grew up letting people have access to me. "Consensually". Except with the assault. That was in no way consensual, although the predator probably got to think it was because I was petrified and silent during the entire assault. Well, I did manage to say I had to go. I had to leave. He ignored me. So it was like I was silent. I was also afraid if I angered him he'd kill me. Or do something worse than killing me. But he kind of did that anyway.

There are different social rules depending on where one lives. Things are very different in Japan, for example, than in many parts of the U.S. And while I may send out hugs to many people in Japan right now, as they find out who among their friends and loved ones, relatives, neighbors, have died from the tsunami or earthquake, they may not welcome my hug. Men especially. But I'm a huggy kind of person. Unless I get clear messages from someone that they don't wish to be hugged, I'll assume they welcome one.

That's exactly how that white woman is. She is a very affectionate person. Very warm. Not predatory. Except when she was getting to know me she shared with me some things that made me uncomfortable. She shared things that I felt were inappropriate for me to know. She also touched me in ways that didn't feel okay to me.

I tried to express to her that I wasn't comfortable with some of what had happened between us. She seemed to understand. She had worked as a psychotherapist, so I didn't think it would take too much explanation on my part. But, whenever she sees me, which is not often as I don't go out much, she comes over and hugs me, no matter my body language. Is she being insensitive? Probably. Is she being predatory? No. But it feels a bit scary to me to see her coming towards me, whenever I see her. And it's partly because she was inappropriate with me, to me, in some ways in our past. I won't go into the details, but to me she crossed some lines and I was left feeling uncomfortable and unsafe. This doesn't mean she is an unsafe person to be around. These distinctions are tricky.

I am faced with having to write to her to ask her not to do that. I will ask her not to hug me because lately I am dealing with this whole issue of who gets to have access to me. To my body. And the answer is no one does unless I welcome it, explicitly. But I live in a society, in a particular collection of cultures--and there are several I live in--where people having access to me is assumed to be okay. For example, among many middle aged white gay men, kissing on the cheek or the lips when meeting is acceptable behavior for many. Not for me. I don't want anyone kissing me unless we are intimate friends. But culturally it is part of "what happens" that is supposed to be okay.

Men at a gathering, at a party, who feel free with their kisses, are not free to kiss me--which hasn't stopped them. I don't want to be kissed or hugged unless... unless I want to be. And honestly that can be welcomed by me one day and not on another. That's how it goes with me. I try not to go outside if I'm not feeling like being touched at all, because when I do, let's say to go grocery shopping, and someone--anyone at all--bumps into me, I feel physically violated and emotionally triggered. So rather than inflict that on myself and give others the sense that they've committed some great offence when all they did was sway too far in a supermarket aisle, I'll stay home.

On the macro scale, adults feel entitled to have physical (and sexual) access to children; men feel entitled to have physical and sexual access to women; whites feel entitled to have people of color meet their needs in various ways--for example to have people of color do most of the hard labor in the world so that whites can purchase inexpensive clothes and eat food from far away. There are whole systems--economic, social, and sexual--that are built on these entitlements and which operate with these assumptions of who should have access to whom, and in what ways.

On the micro level, it can be hard to see the larger patterns and the political imperatives that underlie them. I feel threatened by a very warm woman who probably means me no harm. And I don't mean my friends in Japan harm when I see them and hug them. But there it is: invasion of people's bodies happens regardless of anyone' intentions to not be harmful. I'd say it is my responsibility to find out what someone else is comfortable with. Because the Japanese woman I know who is married to a Japanese man might be comfortable with me hugging her, but he may not be comfortable receiving my hug of him. So when I communicate to her, I might say that I'm sending a hug. But I won't say that to him. There is likely to be a lot of grief happening in the next days in Japan, as many people find out friends and relatives and loved ones perished in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. I hope on the non-material level, I send what is useful and requested. Too often, I think, we send what occurs to us to send--materially and emotionally--because it makes us feel better to do so, or because it is what we are accustomed to doing.

It is for me, I think, to write to the white woman who likes to hug me, here in the U.S. and to let her know that unless I open my arms to welcome an embrace, I'd prefer she not do so. It's about the best I can do, for now. If she asks why, I'll try and explain that it is because I need to have more control over who has access to me physically, if and when it is possible. And that because she is someone who does respect boundaries that are established, I know I am safe to express this need to her. That wasn't the case when I was a child. But it is now. I'm male, after all. And my body isn't targeted, usually, for others to touch and violate. The white woman's body is targeted, however. So even while I may be uncomfortable with her hugs, she more than likely has to contend with being physically approached and violated far more than I do.

On the macro level, girls and women worldwide are being physically and sexually violated often. Daily. Hourly. Minute by minute. This is acceptable to many men; it is wanted by many men; it is desirable by many men. If it weren't, many men would stop it. Many men do not stop it. So it continues, because it meets the needs of those men.

What is tricky is that for those people--people such as children, people such as women--who are structurally, politically expected to do what others ask of them, how do we approach and answer this question: When does acceptance of a seemingly consensual hug or other physical or sexual act, become a way of appeasing someone who might reject you, insult you, hurt you, or kill you if you refused? What if the current person won't kill you, but you're triggered when hugged into a time when someone might have killed you, or where you felt paralysed and unable to speak out to say "No!"? And if someone shows no objection to contact, should we assume no harm or invasion is ever occurring? Should we assume that those macro political patterns aren't being reinforced when men behave as men are socialised to behave--too often taking what is wanted and not bothering to find out what is genuinely welcomed and wanted?

Friday, March 11, 2011

A Radical Profeminist's Important web pages and Recommended websites

This information used to appear along the right side of the blog, but I'm trying to "clean up" the space and have there be less info all on the main page or on any given blog page. So now you can track my favorite/important/recommended web pages here. Everything that used to run along the right side is below. The blog roll remains on the main page and on each blog page.

Important web pages to me and perhaps also to you

A Radical Profeminist's Recommending Reading List

REQUESTED READING for ANY "educated" class-privileged white man who wishes to make any comments to this blog (click on each as they are linked to more information about them):

"Everyday Male Chauvinism: Intimate Partner Violence Which Is Not Called Violence", by Luis Bonino, Péter Szil, with contribution from Gábor Kuszing, *here*.

Any or all books by Alice Walker, Andrea Dworkin, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Derrick Jensen, Marilyn Frye, Patricia Hill Collins, Robert Jensen, and Sheila Jeffreys. Also, specifically:

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by Andrea Smith.

Letters From a War Zone, by Andrea Dworkin.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde

Yurugu: An African-centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior, by Marimba Ani.

About the latter book, one reviewer writes,

YURUGU removes the mask from the European facade and thereby reveals the inner working of global white [heterosexual male] supremacy: A system which functions to guarantee the control of Europe and [his] descendants (the few) over the majority of the world's peoples (the many)........Dr. Marimba Ani exposes the roles of both the academic and Christian establishment in proselytizing as "universal" that which is indeed culturally specific to Europe and which therefore functions in the interest of European dominance.

A Radical Profeminist's Favorite Quotes

Know who is playing the music before you dance. — Nikki Giovanni

There is difference and there is power. And who holds the power decides the meaning of the difference. — June Jordan

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free. — Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider, "Poetry is Not A Luxury", page 38

[M]y vehicle was going to be truth: not a global, self-deluded truth, not a truth that only I knew and that I wanted other people to follow, but the truth that came from not lying. —Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak, page 21

To me an important breakthrough, I felt, in my work and that of others was the call to use the term white supremacy, over racism because racism in and of itself did not really allow for a discourse of colonization and decolonization, the recognition of the internalized racism within people of color and it was always in a sense keeping things at the level at which whiteness and white people remained at the center of the discussion. — bell hooks, in Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature (author: Antero Garcia), page 68

We live in chaos, uncertain about the possibility of building and sustaining community. The public figures who speak the most to us about a return to old-fashioned values...are most committed to maintaining systems of domination---racism, sexism, class exploitation, and imperialism. They promote a perverse version of freedom that makes it synonymous with materialism. [...] Forget about the fact that capitalism requires the existence of a mass underclass of surplus labor. Lying takes the form of mass media creating the myth that [the] feminist movement has completely transformed society, so much so that the politics of patriarchal power have been inverted and that men, particularly white men, just like emasculated black men, have become the victims of dominating women...When this collective cultural consumption of and attachment to misinformation couples with the layers of lying individuals do in their personal lives, our capacity to face reality is severely diminished as is our will to intervene and change unjust circumstances. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, page 27-29

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal. — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)

I have come to believe, over and over again, that what is important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. — Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider, "The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action", page 40 '

[T]hose who point out that women are being victimized are said to victimize women. Those who resist the reduction of women to sex are said to reduce women to sex. Subordinating women harms no one when pornographers do it, but when feminists see women being subordinated in pornography and say so, they are harming women. Words do nothing except when feminists use them. Go figure.' — Catharine A. MacKinnon, Women's Lives, Men's Laws, page 350

There’s nothing inevitable or neutral about heterosexuality. — Bev Jo

If I hated men, I would treat men the way that men treat women! — Beth Chamblin

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. — Andrea Dworkin, ‘The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door’, speech at State University of New York, 1 March 1975. In Our Blood, chapter 4

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring. — Malalai Joya



A.R.P. Glossary of Terms used on this blog

C.R.A.P. or CRAP: Corporate Racist Atrocious Patriarchy (I created that acronym in the summer of 2005 ECD, out of necessity)
CRAPitalism: Racist, patriarchal corporate economics. (Created here on 19 March 2010ECD, out of necessity)
"Dick-whipped" is a term I created quite recently (1 March 2010ECD it made its first public appearance) that seems to be missing from radical discourse generally. I need it to describe het men who are so afraid of being rejected and ostracized by other dominant het men, that they come out as antifeminist, as homophobic, as racist, as classist and pro-status quo. They use anti-queer, anti-woman, racist language and other behaviors to shore up their status and standing among other dick-whipped men. Dick-whipped men use terms like "p*ssy-whipped" to put down men who have the courage to break ranks with the delusional, terrified dick-whipped masses of misogynist men. Dick-whipped men want to be "a member" in good "standing" in the White Brotherhood more than anything else (see also, below, "The White Brotherhood")
ECD: Era of Christian Domination, in place of AD or CE (I'd have to check this blog for its first use--I created it here for a blogpost)
G.O.P.: Grandiose Oppressive P.R.I.C.K.s. Created on 30 March 2010 for the A.R.P. blog (see P.R.I.C.K., below)
Goddess: same as G-d, put in the feminine form, to remind people that G-d is not a man, and ought to be a represented, if personified at all, as a woman.
G-d: = [ ], All That Is (and Isn't), Being including the Non-dual Realm of Being, Truth Beyond Reason, What is Known and That Which Humans Cannot Know. That is one of several Jewish ways to refer in writing to this Being
HAM: Heterosexistly-Active Man (or Het-Acting Men)
HATERosexuality: a term I found a variation of in a comment by Patti, which I'm using here at A.R.P. to mean the form of sexual orientation and expression embraced by het men that promotes the hatred of effeminate and butch women, transgender and intergender people, intersex people, and gay men (first used by me on this blog on 5 August 2010 ECD)
Het = heterosexual, usually used here as an adjective for men
Homo Palien: The White Het Man. Created on 7 July out of necessity. See also, "Paliens".
Intergender: the reality of people who do experience themselves as being neither a girl or boy, or both girl and boy. For one person's discussion of this, see *here*. Some intergender people may consider it a form of being transgender; some may not
"Logical Phallusy": an argumentative principle employed most often by "educated" white men to make the case that patriarchal and racist atrocities are not as they appear, and that, in fact, according to "Rational Logic", white men have it just as bad as everyone else (created at A.R.P. on 6 August 2010 ECD)
"Lorde knows": used in place of Lord knows, referencing someone who is far more worthy of being considered a God and who may be a Goddess, Audre Lorde (I started writing this for the blog and in emails and chats, a few years ago. But I've seen others using it too. I'm not surprised; I'd think more people would)
Man-infestation: another term for "manifestation", noting that most realities are named by men in ways designed to invisibilise how male supremacy infects or infests both social experience and how it is understood. (I started using this in 2009, I believe.)
Misopedia: child-hating/child molesting, used in place of pedophilia (the love of children). This is not a term I made up; it's one that has existed for a long time but is not used because a term meaning "love of children" (pedophilia) is erroneously used instead; we don't call the rape of women an expression of "gynophilia" for a reason; the violation and assault of children, disproportionately female, is no different
Paliens: contraction of Pale Aliens, or the U.S. White Man and his white colonising, invading, mass murdering, pro-genocidal descendants (created by me on July 4, 2010 ECD)
P.I.M.P. or PIMP: Possessive Invasive Misogynist Profiteer (acronym created by me, out of necessity, on 31 December 2009 ECD; see also: W.I.M.P.)
P.O.P.E.: Patriarchal Oppressor Protecting Evil (created on 30 March 2010 for the A.R.P. blog)
P.P.P. or PPP: the Patriarchal Palian Paradigm (the pro-gynocidal, anti-Indigenist, white supremacist dominant culture and cult of war-worship (warship) and rape-rule, and wherein palien science or religion, not activist Indigenous women, have "the answers" to social-political problems (acronym created for and added to the A.R.P. Glossary on 8 July 2010 ECD)
P.R.I.C.K. or PRICK: Patriarchal, Racist, Ignorant, Condescending Know-it-all (a kind of white man: you know the dude) (Created by me a few years ago out of necessity to describe THAT manifestation of white guy)
Rape-rule: a key tenet and practice of the PPP (this term was created for and added to the A.R.P. Glossary on 8 July 2010 ECD)
Rapism: An ideological sexxxual centerpiece of white heterosexual male supremacy (aka the PPP), that holds that rape is and must be perpetually perpetuated and practiced by WHM against women, girls, and anyone deemed “feminine*” to the point it must both be denied as an atrocity and accepted as natural and inevitable. Pornographers market and pimps traffick in rapism's premises and practices.
*Consider how to be raped as a man, is to be socially “emasculated”. Consider how to be raped as a girl or woman is to be made into a "wh*re" in pornography, the compliant if lustful sexual female being, always there for men who are never there for her
Sexxx/Sexxxism: what the pornography industry mass produces. Also "the sexxxism industry" (terms I created for use in my writing and communications in the 1990s, out of necessity to describe pornographic/inhumane sexual violence presented as "sex")
Thealogian:
a person who studies and practices the wisdom of the Goddesses, G-d, and G-dding, not the patriarchal kind (a term I created out of necessity to name those who refuse to worship or submit to any male god and the men who patriarchally proclaim there is such a Divine male being)
U.R.A., or The United Rapes of Amerikkka: a more fitting term for what the U.S.A. is and does. This term makes explicit something that pro-U.S.A. fanatics frequently deny publicly: that sexist (male supremacist) and racist (white supremacist) violence are the two most important practices in this country and that without both, the U.S.A. couldn't exist. (It was created by me a few years ago, probably for a blog post, to make point this unambiguously clear)"The White Brotherhood" is the often unspoken pact men make with each other to be racist, misogynistic, and homophobic in order to be pals, playmates, and power-brokers in the WHM supremacist societies
Warship:
War-worship, a key tenet of the PPP (created for and added to the A.R.P. Glossary on 8 July 2010 ECD)
"White Christianity" is not a term that means the spiritual practice of the teachings of the non-white Jewish Jesus; nor does it mean "Christianity". It mean Western white het male supremacist corporate and corrupt Christianity
WHM =
White Het Men
WHM Supremacy =
white het male supremacy; the reigning and controlling destructive ideology impacting the globe, regulated and enforced primarily by wealthy white men in the West
W.I.M.P. or WIMP:
Woman-Invading Misogynist Procurer (a term created by me on 4 January 2010, out of necessity; see also P.I.M.P.)

A.R.P. Glossary, Favorite Quotes, and Reading Recommendations

GLOSSARY:

C.R.A.P. or CRAP: Corporate Racist Atrocious Patriarchy (I created that acronym in the summer of 2005 ECD, out of necessity)
CRAPitalism: Racist, patriarchal corporate economics. (Created here on 19 March 2010ECD, out of necessity)
"Dick-whipped" is a term I created quite recently (1 March 2010ECD it made its first public appearance) that seems to be missing from radical discourse generally. I need it to describe het men who are so afraid of being rejected and ostracized by other dominant het men, that they come out as antifeminist, as homophobic, as racist, as classist and pro-status quo. They use anti-queer, anti-woman, racist language and other behaviors to shore up their status and standing among other dick-whipped men. Dick-whipped men use terms like "p*ssy-whipped" to put down men who have the courage to break ranks with the delusional, terrified dick-whipped masses of misogynist men. Dick-whipped men want to be "a member" in good "standing" in the White Brotherhood more than anything else (see also, below, "The White Brotherhood")
ECD: Era of Christian Domination, in place of AD or CE (I'd have to check this blog for its first use--I created it here for a blogpost)
G.O.P.: Grandiose Oppressive P.R.I.C.K.s. Created on 30 March 2010 for the A.R.P. blog (see P.R.I.C.K., below)
Goddess: same as G-d, put in the feminine form, to remind people that G-d is not a man, and ought to be a represented, if personified at all, as a woman.
G-d: = [ ], All That Is (and Isn't), Being including the Non-dual Realm of Being, Truth Beyond Reason, What is Known and That Which Humans Cannot Know. That is one of several Jewish ways to refer in writing to this Being
HATERosexuality: a term I found a variation of in a comment by Patti, which I'm using here at A.R.P. to mean the form of sexual orientation and expression embraced by het men that promotes the hatred of effeminate and butch women, transgender and intergender people, intersex people, and gay men (first used by me on this blog on 5 August 2010 ECD)
Het = heterosexual, usually used here as an adjective for men
Homo Palien: The White Het Man. Created on 7 July out of necessity. See also, "Paliens".
Intergender: the reality of people who do experience themselves as being neither a girl or boy, or both girl and boy. For one person's discussion of this, see *here*. Some intergender people may consider it a form of being transgender; some may not
"Logical Phallusy": an argumentative principle employed most often by "educated" white men to make the case that patriarchal and racist atrocities are not as they appear, and that, in fact, according to "Rational Logic", white men have it just as bad as everyone else (created at A.R.P. on 6 August 2010 ECD)
"Lorde knows": used in place of Lord knows, referencing someone who is far more worthy of being considered a God and who may be a Goddess, Audre Lorde (I started writing this for the blog and in emails and chats, a few years ago. But I've seen others using it too. I'm not surprised; I'd think more people would)
Man-infestation: another term for "manifestation", noting that most realities are named by men in ways designed to invisibilise how male supremacy infects or infests both social experience and how it is understood. (I started using this in 2009, I believe.)
Misopedia: child-hating/child molesting, used in place of pedophilia (the love of children). This is not a term I made up; it's one that has existed for a long time but is not used because a term meaning "love of children" (pedophilia) is erroneously used instead; we don't call the rape of women an expression of "gynophilia" for a reason; the violation and assault of children, disproportionately female, is no different
Paliens: contraction of Pale Aliens, or the U.S. White Man and his white colonising, invading, mass murdering, pro-genocidal descendants (created by me on July 4, 2010 ECD)
P.I.M.P. or PIMP: Possessive Invasive Misogynist Profiteer (acronym created by me, out of necessity, on 31 December 2009 ECD; see also: W.I.M.P.)
P.O.P.E.: Patriarchal Oppressor Protecting Evil (created on 30 March 2010 for the A.R.P. blog)
P.P.P. or PPP: the Patriarchal Palian Paradigm (the pro-gynocidal, anti-Indigenist, white supremacist dominant culture and cult of war-worship (warship) and rape-rule, and wherein palien science or religion, not activist Indigenous women, have "the answers" to social-political problems (acronym created for and added to the A.R.P. Glossary on 8 July 2010 ECD)
P.R.I.C.K. or PRICK: Patriarchal, Racist, Ignorant, Condescending Know-it-all (a kind of white man: you know the dude) (Created by me a few years ago out of necessity to describe THAT manifestation of white guy)
Rape-rule: a key tenet and practice of the PPP (this term was created for and added to the A.R.P. Glossary on 8 July 2010 ECD)
Rapism: An ideological sexxxual centerpiece of white heterosexual male supremacy (aka the PPP), that holds that rape is and must be perpetually perpetuated and practiced by WHM against women, girls, and anyone deemed “feminine*” to the point it must both be denied as an atrocity and accepted as natural and inevitable. Pornographers market and pimps traffick in rapism's premises and practices.
*Consider how to be raped as a man, is to be socially “emasculated”. Consider how to be raped as a girl or woman is to be made into a "wh*re" in pornography, the compliant if lustful sexual female being, always there for men who are never there for her
Sexxx/Sexxxism: what the pornography industry mass produces. Also "the sexxxism industry" (terms I created for use in my writing and communications in the 1990s, out of necessity to describe pornographic/inhumane sexual violence presented as "sex")
Thealogian:
a person who studies and practices the wisdom of the Goddesses, G-d, and G-dding, not the patriarchal kind (a term I created out of necessity to name those who refuse to worship or submit to any male god and the men who patriarchally proclaim there is such a Divine male being)
U.R.A., or The United Rapes of Amerikkka: a more fitting term for what the U.S.A. is and does. This term makes explicit something that pro-U.S.A. fanatics frequently deny publicly: that sexist (male supremacist) and racist (white supremacist) violence are the two most important practices in this country and that without both, the U.S.A. couldn't exist. (It was created by me a few years ago, probably for a blog post, to make point this unambiguously clear)"The White Brotherhood" is the often unspoken pact men make with each other to be racist, misogynistic, and homophobic in order to be pals, playmates, and power-brokers in the WHM supremacist societies
Warship:
War-worship, a key tenet of the PPP (created for and added to the A.R.P. Glossary on 8 July 2010 ECD)
"White Christianity" is not a term that means the spiritual practice of the teachings of the non-white Jewish Jesus; nor does it mean "Christianity". It mean Western white het male supremacist corporate and corrupt Christianity
WHM =
White Het Men
WHM Supremacy =
white het male supremacy; the reigning and controlling destructive ideology impacting the globe, regulated and enforced primarily by wealthy white men in the West
W.I.M.P. or WIMP:
Woman-Invading Misogynist Procurer (a term created by me on 4 January 2010, out of necessity; see also P.I.M.P.)

KEY QUOTES THAT ADDRESS THE CONCERNS AND INFORM THE PERSPECTIVES OF THIS BLOG:
Know who is playing the music before you dance. -- Nikki Giovanni

There is difference and there is power. And who holds the power decides the meaning of the difference. -- June Jordan

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
-- Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider, "Poetry is Not A Luxury", page 38

[M]y vehicle was going to be truth: not a global, self-deluded truth, not a truth that only I knew and that I wanted other people to follow, but the truth that came from not lying. -- Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak, page 21

We live in chaos, uncertain about the possibility of building and sustaining community. The public figures who speak the most to us about a return to old-fashioned values...are most committed to maintaining systems of domination---racism, sexism, class exploitation, and imperialism. They promote a perverse version of freedom that makes it synonymous with materialism. [...]

Forget about the fact that capitalism requires the existence of a mass underclass of surplus labor. Lying takes the form of mass media creating the myth that [the] feminist movement has completely transformed society, so much so that the politics of patriarchal power have been inverted and that men, particularly white men, just like emasculated black men, have become the victims of dominating women...When this collective cultural consumption of and attachment to misinformation couples with the layers of lying individuals do in their personal lives, our capacity to face reality is severely diminished as is our will to intervene and change unjust circumstances. -- bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, p. 27-29

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)

I have come to believe, over and over again, that what is important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. -- Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider, "The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action", p. 40

'[T]hose who point out that women are being victimized are said to victimize women. Those who resist the reduction of women to sex are said to reduce women to sex. Subordinating women harms no one when pornographers do it, but when feminists see women being subordinated in pornography and say so, they are harming women. Words do nothing except when feminists use them. Go figure.' -- Catharine A. MacKinnon, Women's Lives, Men's Laws, page 350.

If I hated men, I would treat men the way that men treat women! -- Beth Chamblin
 
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. -- Andrea Dworkin, ‘The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door’, speech at State University of New York, 1 March 1975. In Our Blood, chapter 4 (1976)

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring. -- Malalai Joya
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REQUESTED READING for ANY "educated" class-privileged white man who wishes to make any comments to this blog (click on each as they are linked to more information about them):



"Everyday Male Chauvinism: Intimate Partner Violence Which Is Not Called Violence", by Luis Bonino, Péter Szil, with contribution from Gábor Kuszing, *here*.
 
Any or all books by Alice Walker, Andrea Dworkin, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Derrick Jensen, Marilyn Frye, Patricia Hill Collins, Robert Jensen, and Sheila Jeffreys. Also, specifically:

   
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by Andrea Smith.

Letters From a War Zone, by Andrea Dworkin.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde
Yurugu: An African-centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior, by Marimba Ani.

About the latter book, one reviewer writes,
YURUGU removes the mask from the European facade and thereby reveals the inner working of global white [heterosexual male] supremacy: A system which functions to guarantee the control of Europe and [his] descendants (the few) over the majority of the world's peoples (the many)........Dr. Marimba Ani exposes the roles of both the academic and Christian establishment in proselytizing as "universal" that which is indeed culturally specific to Europe and which therefore functions in the interest of European dominance.