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Emancipation?

  Nothing has changed. Men have the power: they have always felt entitled to it and they still are. "Emancipation" is just a word to be mocked because men remain in charge of the world's most vital matters. Women are still considered and expected to be pleasant decorations, needed to adjust and soften the atmosphere. ​And yet, despite this low level of consideration, that role is another kind of power nonetheless! It is a power that voracious women embrace and learn to wield in order to dominate, yet without ever clearly affirming this "dominant" role. This type of apparently "submissive power" is much easier to deny and far harder to measure. ​You see this dynamic very clearly in the Mediterranean countries, where the Arab domination left deep roots. In the northern countries it seems less evident. And yet a widespread, creeping hatred towards women remains very strong. The fact that a Swedish author, Stieg Larsson, wrote Men Who Hate Women, it shows ...

A real soap opera

 


Somehow, I am missing the time when a science fiction future, made with more or less troubled encounters with beings from other worlds was right ahead, waiting for us.

On the other hand, my curiosity can't indulge in sentimental longing of the past and with a much suspected perception of what was going on under the surface, I am assisting to the unveiling of all the suspicions, that I am sure the majority of us had.

The only thing that surprises me is that it is happening now. I was expecting it much later. 
But at least now I am directly experiencing the daily unfolding of a soap opera. Cruel, malignant, depraved...


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