65th Thread: If we do as we are told
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My mother, nursing my newborn brother, sighed:
– I ask you, my tiny boy, so sweet, so precious, if we do as we are told, if we agree that we are wanton, unreliable, disloyal, greedy, vain, if we accept that we are the source of all evils, that our bleeding is impure, that we are not to make decisions, nor have needs and demands, will we be spared the violence of men?
This is the 65th of 100 women who talk to their daughters over 2500 years. It starts here: first thread, and the last stories will take place in … present day America.
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That was very poignant. What struck me is the contrast in vulnerabilities. The newborn son, fragile and small, totally dependent on his nursing mother. And yet the mother being the one pleading to him, as a proxy for all the males of the world, begging on behalf of women to be spared the cruelty. Every cruel and violent misogynist man came from a mother who cared for him once.