Day: March 8, 2024

JYProvocative Question #25 — Feminism

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Our host for the weekly provocative question challenge is Jewish Young Professional, aka JYP.

Is feminism needed in 2024? If yes, what should feminism in 2024 look like? If no, what philosophy or movement should replace feminism in 2024?

Should feminism be needed in 2024? No.

Is feminism needed in 2024. Yes.

Why is feminism still needed in 2024? Well, let’s start with the Republican-controlled Supreme Court of the United States, which overturned Roe v Wade in July 2022, reversing a 50-year-old law giving women the right to choose abortion.

And there are the “red” states controlled by Republican governors and/or legislators who are banning abortions, including, in some cases, total bans on abortions even in cases of rape or incest. These same Republican states are passing legislation that criminalizes women who get abortions even if they have the procedure performed in states where it is still legal and criminalizes those who provide abortion services or even assistance. Republican legislators and politicians are taking names and kicking asses on everything having anything in any way to do with abortions, including starting to ban contraceptives.

Aside from taking away women’s rights to manage their own healthcare, women are still, on average, paid less than 80¢ on the dollar than men for doing the exact same jobs.

And I’ve only just scratched the surface of low-hanging fruit. Why aren’t women treated — in all respects and in every respect — as equal citizens under the law? Shouldn’t they be?

While feminism should not be needed in the middle of the third decade of the 21st century in America, it still is necessary, and will continue to be necessary, until the day comes — if ever — when conservative Republicans agree that women are not lesser citizens and should be treated in every aspect of life under the law as men are.

Oh, that reminds me. “Hey honey, I asked you to bring me a beer 15 minutes ago. Can’t you get anything right?”

MLMM Friday Faithfuls — An Ode to Ineptitude

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For this week’s Mindlovemysery’s Menagerie Friday Faithfuls challenge, Adams asks about poetry. He wants us to write anything about poetry and, if you write poetry, then please share one of our poems.

I am a poet
How do I know it?
My feet show it
They’re Longfellow

I did not write the above poem, I think it was circulating when I was in the second or third grade umpty-ump years ago.

For this prompt, I have prepared a poetic ode to my ineptitude as a poet.

In the realm of rhyme and meter
I am a stranger in a strange land
I stumble and fall like a drunk dancer
Tripping over my own two feet

My attempts at metaphors are muddy and bad
My similes are equally as sad
My verses are tangled and confusing
My stanzas are bumbling and obtuse

When it comes to expressing myself
I should stick with prose, which rolls off my tongue
And give up trying to write poems
For a Longfellow I most definitely am not

Fibbing Friday — Strike Up The Band

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Di (aka Pensitivity101) hosts Fibbing Friday, a silly little exercise where we are to write a post with our answers to the ten questions below. But as the title suggests, truth is not an option. The idea is to fib a little, a lot, tell whoppers, and be inventive, silly, or even outrageous, in our responses. For this week’s Fibbing Friday, Di has given us the names of musical instruments and asked us to say what we think they are.

1. What is a French horn? Something found on the heads of French billy goats.

2. What is a cornet? A small crown worn by princes and princesses and by other nobles below the rank of sovereign.

3. What is a clarinet? A brand of acne skin cream.

4. What is a snare drum? A medical condition that causes a hole to form in an eardrum.

5. What is a viola? A plant with purple flowers.

6. What is a double bass? Half of a barbershop quartet.

7. What is the difference between a Concert, Upright, or Grand? Let’s just say that size matters and leave it at that.

8. What is campanology? The study of political campaign strategies.

9. What is a trombone? Another name for “Grand” in Question 7.

10. What is timpani? The name of a store that sells fine jewelry.

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — March 8th

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Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about it? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Flashback Friday post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on any day this past year and link to that post in a comment.

This was originally posted on March 8, 2019 on this blog.

Friday Fictioneers — The Scooter and the Cat

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“Here’s a picture of the scooter that was stolen from right in front of my flat, Officer,” Dwayne said.

“Is the black cat also missing?” Officer Bremen asked.

“No,” Dwayne said. “The cat is fine. He’s inside.”

“He’s a cutie,” the officer said. “My wife and I had a black cat, too. She looked just like yours. She was almost twenty when she died last year. We miss her. What’s his name?”

“It’s Rudy,” Dwayne said. “But I called….”

“Rudy?” The officer said, laughing. “Like In Rudy Giuliani?”

“Excuse me, Officer, but can we talk about my stolen motor scooter?”

(100 words)

Written for this week’s Friday Fictioneers prompt from Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Photo credit: C.E. Ayr.

FOWC with Fandango — Headline

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Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “headline.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.